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NewslettersMidi just hit a $1 billion valuation with plans to become the biggest consumer brand in women’s health
By Emma HinchliffeFebruary 5, 2026
NewslettersKim Kardashian shaped Skims into a $5 billion brand—now she wants to help other entrepreneurs mold their skills for success 
By Emma HinchliffeDecember 4, 2025
SuccessMeet Luana Lopes Lara: The 29-year-old ex-ballerina spent college summers working for Ray Dalio and Ken Griffin—now she’s the youngest female self-made billionaire
By Orianna Rosa RoyleDecember 4, 2025
NewslettersWhat to know about Anthropic cofounder Daniela Amodei as the OpenAI competitor races toward profitability
By Emma HinchliffeDecember 2, 2025
NewslettersExclusive: Female Founders Fund raises a $29 million fourth fund—a milestone for emerging managers
By Emma HinchliffeDecember 1, 2025
Kathy Harvey is Associate Dean for Global Networks and Innovation at Saïd Business School, University of Oxford, and a Fellow of Keble College.
CommentaryFinance’s outdated view of women holding back female founders
By Kathy HarveyNovember 27, 2025
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SuccessFounder of $100 million company never unplugs from work, but encourages her team to have work-life balance: ‘They didn’t sign up to be entrepreneurs’
By Emma BurleighNovember 23, 2025
NewslettersExclusive: Women’s vitamin brand Perelel raises $27 million from the investor behind Summer Fridays and Tower 28
By Emma HinchliffeNovember 20, 2025
NewslettersWhy the founder of Farmgirl Flowers, who still owns 99% of the business, has decided never to pursue an ‘exit’
By Emma HinchliffeNovember 19, 2025
NewslettersCityblock Health’s unicorn founder explains why health care is broken—and how to fix it
By Emma HinchliffeNovember 18, 2025
Nancy Hairston, CEO and founder of MEDCad
SuccessThis founder went from designing Happy Meal toys to making prosthetic skulls for a living—and her company now rakes in $20 million a year
By Emma BurleighNovember 2, 2025
Late July and Nixie founder Nicole Bernard Dawes
SuccessFounder of $100 million company says she quit her day job to rebuild her father’s Cape Cod chip empire—and there ‘wasn’t time’ to worry about nepotism
By Emma BurleighOctober 26, 2025
Future of WorkAI will save us time. The real question is what we’ll do with it
By Arianna HuffingtonOctober 24, 2025
NewslettersMartha Stewart says ‘retirement is not an option.’ Instead, she has a new skincare brand at 84
By Emma HinchliffeOctober 24, 2025
NewslettersCan celebrity brands really challenge unattainable beauty standards? Selena Gomez says yes
By Ellie AustinOctober 22, 2025
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