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The receipts are in: brown girls are everywhere, building everything, and racking up wins like it’s a sport. From national retail rollouts to headline features and funding announcements, here’s the magic our community unleashed this week.

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We love celebrating brown girl wins ✨ Got a recent win, milestone, or shoutout you want us to know about? 📩 Submit your win by filling out this form and let the BGA community hype you up. 🤎

📣 CALLING ALL BROWN GIRL FOUNDERS

Move over Black Friday, we’re making it brown this year by spotlighting the South Asian women building, creating, and scaling.

Are you a brown girl founder or small business owner? This one’s for you. 👇🏽

🛍️ We’re curating the ultimate Brown Girl Founder Black Friday Shopping Guide. This is your chance to get your brand or business in front of the global BGA community before the Black Friday rush.

👀 Want in?

✔️ Your business/brand must have at least ONE brown girl founder

✔️ Must have a product or service available to shop on Black Friday.

✔️Fill out this submission form to be featured

✨Whether you launched last week or just landed in Sephora — we want you on the list!

⚡️ Deadline: Nov 27th 1PM EST

Last week, BGA took over Silver Arts Projects for a night of art, investing and brown girl magic. 🤎✨

This wasn't your typical networking event. We packed the room with South Asian women in venture, angel investing and tech to talk art, capital and startups - sponsored by Stripe and Montenegro.

Highlights? We had real conversations about art as an asset class, culture as capital, and what happens when brown women become the collectors, the patrons, and the power players.

Our panel was a masterclass:

🎨 Anoushka Mirchandani — the artist rewriting how South Asian stories live on canvas

🏛️ Rajiv Menon — the gallerist shifting who gets to hang on the wall

🧠 Jasmin Wahi — the curator making space for identity and imagination to collide

Thank you to every inspiring woman who showed up with energy, who shared, and made magic happen. Extra love for Anoushka’s limited edition print, our signature BGA gift bags, and the sense of collective possibility in the room. Photos by Zayira Ray/ @zay.ira

🎙️ Some podcast episodes make you smarter. This one hits your soul. 🤎

🧪 Founder Nivatha Balendra shares how a teenage obsession with oil spills became a cleantech company reshaping the future of sustainable ingredients.

⚡️ Investor Olga Cruz breaks down why purpose isn’t fluff — it’s a competitive advantage.

Together, they remind us that when brown women innovate, we build with impact, intention, and community at the centre.

Listen in as they unpack what it really takes to commercialize sustainability, navigate fundraising with intuition, and stay grounded through meditation, seva, and community.

If you’ve ever needed proof that purpose-driven founders can raise millions and shake up industries… this episode is it.

🎧 Listen to the full episode here

👉🏽 Watch the full episode here.

🙋🏾‍♀️ Brown Girls, Desi Dinners🍴

The response to our Brown Girls, Desi Dinners series has been unreal. 🥰

🌍 From Hong Kong to SF to NYC, the conversations were deep, the laughter was loud, and the brown girl connection was instant.

Clearly, there’s a hunger for spaces where ambitious South Asian women can slow down, show up, and speak freely. Brown women from all walks of life coming together to connect, dream, share stories and laugh.

The best part? We’re just getting started. More cities, more stories, more seats at the table - coming your way this winter.

🍽️ Want to be the first to hear about upcoming dinners? Sign up for your city’s waitlist. ✨

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