Seed funding
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Seed funding has come up in 1 episode across 1 podcast in TMT, including Young and Profiting (YAP) with Hala Taha: Entrepreneurship and Self-Improvement Podcast. 1 person has made recorded remarks about it.
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Katie DiastiFounder and CEO of Viv, a sustainable period care brand
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
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
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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.