Fashion Tech Startups Emerging From Harvard B-School Runway in Droves

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BaubleBar — Co-founders Amy Jain and Daniella Yacobovsky (both HBS ’10) aren’t just former investment banking colleagues and HBS classmates, they also share the same birthday. They’re working on making BaubleBar the “go-to destination for fashion jewelry without the markup of a middle man,” Jain tells me. The startup is funded by Accel Partners, Lerer Ventures, Founder Collective, and a crop of angels, including Harvard Business School professor Lena Goldberg. Both founders worked in other jobs for a few months after finishing school, but quit in August 2010 to work on BaubleBar full-time. “We were really fortunate that we had of a couple classes ahead of us that had really successful women entrepreneurs coming out of it, who we were able to go to for motivation, guidance, and advice,” says Jain.

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Author: Erin Kutz

Erin Kutz has a background in covering business, politics and general news. She holds a bachelor’s degree in journalism from Boston University. Erin previously worked in the Boston bureau of Reuters, where she wrote articles on the investment management and mutual fund industries. While in college, she researched for USA Today reporter Jayne O’Donnell’s book, Gen Buy: How Tweens, Teens and Twenty-Somethings Are Revolutionizing Retail. She also spent a semester in Washington, DC, reporting Capitol Hill stories as a correspondent for two Connecticut newspapers and interning in the Money section of USA Today, where she assisted with coverage on the retail and small business beats. Erin got her first taste of reporting at Boston University’s independent student newspaper, as a city section reporter and fact checker and editor of the paper’s weekly business section.