What Katie Diasti has said about Seed funding
2 quotes · 1 episode · Oct 27, 2026
Katie Diasti, Founder and CEO of Viv, a sustainable period care brand, has been quoted on Seed funding 2 times in 1 episode of Young and Profiting (YAP) with Hala Taha: Entrepreneurship and Self-Improvement Podcast, most recently on October 27, 2026. Each quote below is verbatim and links to the moment it was said.
In their words
Diasti says that as a young female founder in period care she needed to prove traction before pitching investors.
“I knew I needed to prove that I could get traction in some way before pitching a single investor”
Young and Profiting (YAP) with Hala Taha: Entrepreneurship and Self-Improvement Podcast: How This Female Founder Grew a $5K Startup Into a $3M Period Care Business With Amazon | Entrepreneurship | Katie Diasti | Presented by Amazon (Oct 27, 2026) · Listen from 45:29
Diasti believes raising millions before launch would have led her to spend much of it poorly.
“if I had raised, you know, millions of dollars pre-product, pre-launch, probably would have spent a lot of it in the wrong ways”
Young and Profiting (YAP) with Hala Taha: Entrepreneurship and Self-Improvement Podcast: How This Female Founder Grew a $5K Startup Into a $3M Period Care Business With Amazon | Entrepreneurship | Katie Diasti | Presented by Amazon (Oct 27, 2026) · Listen from 48:13
Episodes
How This Female Founder Grew a $5K Startup Into a $3M Period Care Business With Amazon | Entrepreneurship | Katie Diasti | Presented by AmazonYoung and Profiting (YAP) with Hala Taha: Entrepreneurship and Self-Improvement Podcast · Oct 27, 2026 · 52 min
Hala Taha interviews Viv founder Katie Diasti about bootstrapping a sustainable period care brand from a college project to multimillion-dollar revenue using Amazon.
Katie Diasti on other topics
- Viv (period care brand) · 2 quotes
- Fulfillment by Amazon · 2 quotes
- Bootstrapping · 2 quotes
- Entrepreneurship · 1 quote
- Retail distribution · 1 quote
- Profit margin · 1 quote
- Menstrual cup · 1 quote
- Amazon Subscribe & Save · 1 quote