Most Likely To Show Founders How to Stretch A Buck: Rachel Hirsch, Founder, Wellness Growth Ventures
💸 Most Likely To Show Founders How to Stretch A Buck: Rachel Hirsch, Founder, Wellness Growth Ventures
As a seed fund investor, Rachel Hirsch has quietly assembled a fantastic portfolio of cutting-edge brands with female founders, including Fishwife, Deux, Partake, and Goodsam (among many others). But cash is just part of the deal: As a former Tiger Global investor and UBS banker, Hirsch is a valuable advisor as brands look to entice larger growth investments, and is an eager sounding board for founders.
Great, but what does a fancy-pants banker have in common with a scrappy entrepreneur? Well, it turns out that Hirsch is as much of a scrappy entrepreneur as any of them – she owns a couple of L.A. yoga/wellness studios and is a Lululemon ambassador. In other words, she’s living the LOHAS founder lifestyle she’s put so much time and thought into investing in, and in talking to her, you start to understand why she’s a whole lot more than some bucks on your cap table.