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Lafayette 148 New York
Lafayette 148 New York is a privately held, vertically integrated luxury womenswear house founded in SoHo in 1996. Named for its original address at 148 Lafayette Street, the brand designs, produces, sells and fulfills clothing, footwear and accessories under one roof - from its Brooklyn Navy Yard headquarters to its owned atelier in Shantou, China. Known for intelligent, understated tailoring, luxurious fabrics and inclusive sizing across petite, missy and plus ranges, it serves professional and style-conscious women through its own boutiques, e-commerce site, AtelierDirect styling service and select luxury retailers.
Peter Millar
Peter Millar is a Raleigh, North Carolina-based luxury lifestyle apparel brand founded in 2001 around a single cashmere sweater. It has grown into a full men's and women's collection spanning tailored clothing, sportswear, resort wear and technical golf apparel, sold through its own retail stores, e-commerce site, and premium wholesale channels such as golf pro shops and department stores. Owned by Swiss luxury group Richemont since 2012, Peter Millar pairs classic American style with performance fabrication and also operates the golf-lifestyle brand G/FORE, which it acquired in 2018.
Talbots
Talbots is an American specialty retailer of classic women's apparel, shoes, and accessories, founded in 1947 in Hingham, Massachusetts and known for its iconic red door and long-running mail-order catalog. The brand serves women who value timeless, put-together style across misses, petite, plus, and plus-petite sizing through roughly 470 stores, a catalog business, and talbots.com. Now owned by Sycamore Partners and operated within the KnitWell Group portfolio, Talbots pairs its New England heritage with omnichannel retail and personal styling service.
TWP
TWP is a New York womenswear label founded by designer Trish Wescoat Pound, the former founder of Haute Hippie. Built around impeccably tailored shirting and elevated everyday essentials, TWP takes menswear-inspired proportions and luxury Italian fabrics and turns them into relaxed, versatile pieces made in New York City. Launched for spring 2022 with backing from Theory co-founder Andrew Rosen, the brand has become a downtown cult favorite and, in 2025, joined the CFDA's official New York Fashion Week calendar.
Cashmere
Cashmere is a Los Angeles-based AI company building a data layer for financial services. It started as an AI-powered client-acquisition platform that helps wealth management firms spot high-net-worth prospects at the moment they experience a wealth-triggering life event - an inheritance, a business sale, a liquidity event - and then matches those prospects with the best-fit advisor and automates personalized outreach. The product has since expanded into resolving fragmented customer records across disconnected banking systems into a single, continuously updated 'golden profile' enriched with internal and external signals. Founded by Farbod Nowzad and Eshan Govil, Cashmere raised a $3.6M seed round led by Canapi Ventures in September 2024 and counts RIAs, banks and wirehouses among its customers.
Farbod Nowzad
Farbod Nowzad is the co-founder and CEO of Cashmere, a Los Angeles fintech building an AI-powered data layer that helps financial institutions and wealth managers turn fragmented customer records into decision-ready intelligence. UC Berkeley's first data science graduate, he cut his teeth on anti-fraud machine learning at Lime and later founded the social audio startup Pludo before launching Cashmere in 2022 with high school friend and CTO Eshan Govil. In September 2024 the company raised a $3.6M seed round led by Canapi Ventures to attack a wealth industry sitting on a $90 trillion generational wealth transfer.
Quince
Quince is a San Francisco e-commerce company that sells luxury-grade essentials - Mongolian cashmere, washable silk, Italian leather, Turkish cotton - at prices that look like typos. It does this by skipping the wholesale layer entirely and shipping straight from partner factories using its own Manufacturer-to-Consumer (M2C) operating system.
Sid Gupta
Sid Gupta is the Co-Founder and CEO of Quince, a San Francisco-based manufacturer-to-consumer (M2C) brand that sells luxury-quality cashmere, silk, and home goods at a fraction of traditional retail prices. Founded in 2018 alongside his wife Zunu Mittal and CTO Sourabh Mahajan, Quince reached a $10.1 billion valuation in March 2026 after raising a $500M Series E led by Iconiq Capital. Before Quince, Gupta built Lolli & Pops, a specialty candy retail chain, from 11 struggling locations to nearly 100 stores across 28 states. A University of Chicago economics graduate and Stanford MBA, he has spent his career dissecting pricing inefficiencies in consumer retail - and building businesses to exploit them.