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E55. Gayle Harrison, Untagged - Baptism of Fire
#fashion #sustainability #angelinvestment #VCinvestment #technology
Gayle Harrison is the Founder of Untagged, a gamified fashion resale platform that launched in February 2022. It saves you money, and you get rewarded for being sustainable through your carbon savings.
Gayle has raised around £200k in investment mostly from angels after a stellar career in consumer behaviour change and is currently raising again. She started her fundraising journey with a friends and family round, which she found difficult, conceding, “it was horrible asking for money”.
Gayle was repeatedly told by investors that she wouldn’t get investment as a single female founder and needed a co-founder. Since then, she realised through a “baptism of fire” that this isn’t true. Gayle is fully capable of succeeding and taking the sustainable fashion world by storm with Untagged.
In this episode you’ll discover:
- Why confidence really is everything
- How powerful your founding team is
- When the best time to raise investment is
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