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

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Birchbox — This startup, co-founded by HBS ’10 graduates Katia Beauchamp and Hayley Barna (also a Harvard undergrad), has provided office space to later generations of HBS fashion tech startups, as you’ll see. Birchbox—funded by Accel Partners, Consigliere, First Round Capital, Forerunner Ventures, and others—offers a curated selection of beauty product samples sent out on a monthly subscription basis.

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.