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

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Quincy Apparel — Christina Wallace (left) and Alexandra Nelson (right) were section mates at HBS and graduated in 2010. Next month they’re publicly launching their e-commerce site for women’s suiting, and are “trying to add sizes where women’s bodies vary the most,” says Nelson, who by the way got her bachelor’s in mechanical engineering from MIT. Both worked for Boston Consulting Group right out of business school, and started working full-time on Quincy last year. “We were looking at the space while we were in school together,” says Wallace, who worked in theater prior to entering HBS. “It came out of a personal frustration that Alex and I had with being in the professional space, and not being able to find clothes that fit us at a mass price point.” The startup—also housed in Birchbox’s offices—has raised a family and friends round of funding and is now targeting a seed round.

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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.