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

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FashionStake (acquired by Fab.com) —  Co-founders Vivian Weng and serial entrepreneur Daniel Gulati (both HBS ’11) raised money for their startup at the end of their first year of business school. FashionStake sold goods from independent fashion designers and will be relaunched as part of Fab in the next few weeks, following its January 2012 acquisition by the flash sales site. “There are definitely a lot of companies that are cropping up in the fashion space,” says Weng, now director of fashion at Fab. “My hope is there will be a handful of real game changers.”

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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.