By Bernard Mendez, DotLA Born in the wake of the #MeToo movement, Los Angeles-based startup AllVoices is hoping to make it easier for employees to report incidents of workplace harassment. The company’s platform acts as a third-party tool to let workers report incidents of harassment and give feedback to companies anonymously, but as founder Claire […]

A program to improve the pipeline of diverse investors  Halogen Ventures is excited to announce the 2nd Annual Halogen Fellowship in Venture Capital sponsored by Amazon Web Services, Silicon Valley Bank, and Manatt, Phelps & Phillips! The Halogen Fellowship is focused on gender dynamics and addresses the lack of equity, diversity and funding in venture capital.  The Halogen Fellowship […]

Live Tinted, a Los Angeles, CA-based inclusive beauty brand, raised $3M in seed funding. The round was led by Montage Ventures (Feals, Carbon38), with participation from Halogen Ventures (Glamsquad, ThirdLove),  Fearless Fund, a woman of color led VC (AARMY, Nudies) and Curate Capital (SocialMama, GlamHive). The company intends to use the funds for key executive […]

Celebrating 5 years of revolutionary growth driven by innovation, The Flex Co. secures its largest capital investment to date with $12m in renewed funding led by CircleUp. After over two years of intensive product development, The Flex Co. is proud to add the new Flex Reusable DiscTM to its suite of sustainable period products. Flex Reusable Disc […]

Happy Holidays from Halogen Ventures! To Halogen’s friends and supporters, Thank you for all of your support this year. We are so excited for your continuous support in exceptional female founders. It’s the season of togetherness, support, laughter, goodwill and more. But more importantly, it’s the season of presents. With that in mind we’ve assembled […]

All I could think was, I failed my team, the majority of which is female. A couple of weeks ago, I went to my first in-person dinner for work in a long time. (Yes. It was outdoors, and everyone was doing their part to be extremely cautious). It was a group of working women and […]

Image Credits: AKUA / AKUA Kelp Burger The global meat substitute market was valued at $4.51 billion two years ago and is expected to double by 2027, attracting startups, like alternative meat food tech company AKUA, that aim to solidify a prominent place in the up-and-coming industry. Former technology journalist Courtney Boyd Myers co-founded AKUA with Matthew Lebo […]

Babylist, the decade-old registry platform that also operates as an e-commerce and content hub for new parents, just announced a $40 million Series C funding round, led by Norwest Venture Partners. “We’ve successfully operated in an overlooked, yet massive category, serving an unmet need for millions of new parents and their extended families,” says Natalie […]