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Launching The Glow Pot
“T
he industry is hard to break into. There are a lot of really big players and names in the game. If you’re not one of them, people don’t believe you know what you’re talking about.”
“People don’t really want to invest in Black women. In 2017 or 2018, only 0.02% of all venture capitalists, or funding across the world, went to Black women. Numbers and statistics like that make it really easy to feel like you want to give up. I’d been trying to fundraise for a while, through investors and venture capitalists, but the general responses were: ‘it’s too similar to this’, ‘we’ve already got that’ or ‘your products don’t do this, and they don’t do that’. It’s obviously really disheartening, because The Glow Pot has so many customers across the world and our products really work.”