NARA

“Georgia Grace just announced Nara's first licensing deal with a workwear brand called Libsyn.”

“A woman set a world record, Cole Brower. She's the first American woman to sail the world solo, and she did it with our go there pants and our go there shorts.”

“Hustle Fund does not invest in non-software, but I do do a number of angel investments, and I would love to do this personally as a small check. I wouldn't be able to hit your 25 K minimum, but if you would have me, I would love to invest.”

“We have been able to secure over 400,000 dollars of debt, which we're halfway through paying off, and so that's helped cover most of our inventory costs.”

“Pants cost 43 dollars to produce. Shorts cost 37 dollars, and the estimate for leggings is 27 dollars. So for our flagship product, which is the pants, we're at a 74% D to C profit margin, a 48% wholesale retail profit margin, and in the licensing revenue stre…”

“And I also have a sneaking suspicion that D to C is going to take her farther than she thinks it will. And I think investing in D to C is going to be critical to keeping leverage with her licensing partners. And she might find out that she doesn't need them as…”

“The terms that we've raised 1.5 on to date are 25 K minimum and eleven million pre money value cap.”

“Now we are raising half a million dollars to make the GoFly technology the Gore-Tex of zippers via a licensing revenue stream so that we can get this technology into as many applications as possible and help everyone go on the go.”

“In total between in the actual pitch room and mingling with people immediately after the pitch, we walked away with a 180 K.”

“In the past 18 months, my team and I have taken this technology from the floor of my college dorm room to the floors of the largest outdoor retailers in North America, to social media virality with over three hundred and fifty million views on trending videos,…”

“We have our first signed LOI in hand from a billion dollar company that's currently Testing with their pro athlete team in ski bibs and base layers.”

“It is covered by both design and utility patents in over 30 countries worldwide and counting.”

“So comfortable that a third of our customers actually go commando.”

“So we've done over 18,000 units, and our lifetime revenue is about 1.75 million. Last year's revenue was just under a million, so we had over 50% growth between Twenty-twenty-two and twenty-twenty-three. We've only actually had inventory in stock for the past …”

“I'm in. I think I'm gonna go with 50 K.”

“I have a policy where I have to talk to my founders first and see if there's a conflict, so I'm going to say no for now, but I'm going to introduce you to the founder, and if he says there's not, we could have another follow-up conversation.”

“We have raised 1.5 million dollars to date from a mix of VCs, family offices, and angels, and we have over 50% women on our cap table, which we're really proud of.”