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The Jewelry Brand That Built a Factory Without Walls
SOKO began as a marketplace for Kenyan makers. The founders found that beautiful one-offs were hard to sell at scale, so they built repeatable jewelry collections and a mobile system that lets independent workshops act like one factory.
The Agency Founder Who Hired the Future Before It Arrived
Lauren Sweeney had never worked at an agency. So she built one around a peculiar wager: hire for the work you want before the work arrives. A decade later, the wager has numbers behind it.
SparkPoint Studio Built the Missing Middle of the Book Business
It began with one book campaign and became a publishing flywheel. After selling its presses, SparkPoint is testing a sharper proposition: the audience may be more valuable than the printing machinery.
The Company That Began as a Placeholder
Susan McPherson thought she was building a bridge to her next job. Instead, she built an agency around a deceptively practical idea: before you broadcast a purpose, connect the people who can make it real.
West of Fairfax puts the press office in the group chat
The Los Angeles agency built its name in social media. Bringing PR into the same operation turns a familiar marketing promise into a practical question: who keeps the story straight?
Lucas Public Affairs knows who needs to hear it
A student survey, a nuclear power plant and a tourism report have something in common: each needs an audience that can do something about it. This Sacramento firm makes those introductions.
Silver Lining Marketing wants your brand to behave itself
A hospitality-trained agency makes the case that a brand lives in what people experience. Its work stretches from positioning and publicity to the employees who have to deliver the promise.
BABCO wants your brand to catch up with your product
The product works. The market still needs convincing. Olivia Batraski’s design studio works in that awkward gap, where a name, a website, and an empty state can all make the same company easier to believe.
T Palmer Agency knows the room is part of the pitch
A technical product can be hard to explain. T Palmer Agency works on everything around that explanation - the brand, the booth, the website, and the people worth meeting.
Serene Agency knows who needs to hear your story
From record releases to gallery openings, Nia Rice’s Los Angeles agency sells a particular kind of judgment: which story belongs in which room.
EAG Sports Management and the job nobody put in the contract
A playing contract can make an athlete rich. Denise White built EAG around everything that comes next: the interview, the endorsement, the charity event, and the call nobody wants to get.
Honey knows what makes a brand worth a second helping
The Sacramento studio turns food, farming, and a sense of place into brands people can recognize and use. Its work runs from the salsa shelf to school lunch, local news, and the next train home.
The Yellow Bus Is Breaking. This Founder Turned Parents Into the Fleet.
Kimberly Moore spent 14 years climbing at Verizon, then bet at 53 that the safest ride to school isn't a yellow bus or an app-hailed stranger - it's the family three doors down. Go Together now runs school carpools in 27 states.
AngeLink
AngeLink is a women-led social crowdfunding platform based in Naples, Florida, that bills itself as the first fintech fundraising site powered by women. It pairs a zero-platform-fee model with an AI tool called AI-Wizard that helps people write more compelling fundraiser stories, plus fraud review and mobile-first design. Positioned as a GoFundMe alternative, it targets the reality that most crowdfunding donors and organizers are women, and aims to raise money for medical bills, emergencies, small businesses, and community causes.
SweetBio, Inc.
SweetBio, Inc. is a Memphis-based medical device company that bioengineers manuka honey into solid, easy-to-apply wound dressings. Its flagship product, APIS, combines a collagen derivative, UMF-certified manuka honey, and hydroxyapatite into a trimmable sheet that is FDA-cleared and Medicare-covered for managing chronic and acute wounds, including diabetic foot ulcers. Founded in 2015 by sibling co-founders Kayla Rodriguez Graff and Dr. Isaac Rodriguez, the woman-led, Latinx-founded company aims to make advanced wound care accessible and affordable - taking a remedy as old as the ancient Egyptians and delivering it in a modern, standardized form.
Gerry Poirier
Gerry Poirier is the founder and CEO of AngeLink, billed as the world's first social crowdfunding platform powered by women. After more than two decades on Wall Street trading floors at Credit Suisse and Lazard, where she was often the only woman in the room, she built an AI-driven, fraud-resistant fundraising platform that has grown to roughly 55,000 active users across 100 currencies and raised over $7.3 million in seed funding. A Wharton-trained, globe-trotting risk-taker based in Naples, Florida, she also runs the AngeLink Community Foundation, a 501(c)(3) making direct impact grants.
Owl's Brew
Owl's Brew is a women-led, Connecticut-based beverage company that builds ready-to-drink alcoholic cocktails from real teas, botanicals and fruit juice instead of artificial flavors. Founded in 2013 by tea sommelier Jennie Ripps and Maria Littlefield, it started as a tea-based cocktail mixer, pioneered one of the first hard tea seltzers in 2020, and in 2026 pivoted its flagship line to Spiked Pop, a 'clean' hard soda. The brand's promise is simple: drink wise, with ingredients you can actually pronounce.
b Inc.
b Inc. (formerly Vecna) is a Burlington, Massachusetts technology company founded in 1998 by MIT engineers Deborah and Daniel Theobald. It builds automation and telepresence technology that keeps human connection at the center of healthcare, education, government, and tourism - from patient self-service kiosks and intake software used across U.S. hospitals to VGo telepresence robots that let people be present from anywhere. Its guiding belief: technology should serve humanity, not overshadow it.