E55. Gayle Harrison, Untagged - Baptism of Fire

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