Namaste Brown Girl,
Winter blues? The only thing cooling down is the weather - the deals, drops, and brown girl momentum are very much heating up.
Welcome back to Brown Girls, Money Moves, your bi-weekly download on who’s building, backing, scaling, and redefining power the brown girl way. From funding announcements to art-world takeovers to the invisible labour behind community building, this issue is packed with wins you’ll bookmark, the shifts you’ll feel, and the conversations we’re finally saying out loud.
Here’s what’s inside:
🔥 Money moves across AI, retail shelves, fashion logistics, and film
🍸 Brown girl founders pouring into (and taking over) the drinks industry
🎨 Brown Girls Desi Dinners, but make it art
💡 A first look at the new digital home for the BGA community
🤎 Gupshup - the soft, the strong, and the unfiltered
Top up your chai and settle in.
spicy money moves
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If there’s one thing brown women are doing this quarter, it’s turning milestones into momentum. New retail drops, fresh capital, and culture-shifting creative getting its flowers. Translation: the group chat is busy and the cap tables are glowing. Here’s who made the boldest money moves this week.
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🌶️ Your pantry just got an upgrade. Satya, the Indian spice brand founded by a powerhouse mother–daughter duo, is now stocked nationwide at Sprouts Farmers Market.
🧥 Ski trip itinerary ✔️ Cute outfits secured ✔️ By Rotation just partnered with Uber to deliver ski rental fashion on demand, which means your last-minute mountain look now arrives faster than your situationship text back.
💰 Funding secured. Riya Grover, co-founder of Sequence, raised $20M for her AI-powered billing platform - led by 645 Ventures and a casual lineup that includes a16z, Firstminute, Passion Capital, Dig Ventures, and Vor Capital.
🎬 Brown girls in cinema are finally in the spotlight. Fawzia Mirza’s The Queen of My Dreams just scored a GLAAD Media Award nomination for Outstanding Film.
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. 🤎
the brown girl founder’s club
In honour of World Bartender Day this week, we’re raising a glass to the Brown girl founders shaking up the drinks industry 🍹🤎
From curated wine clubs to sustainable craft beer, non-alcoholic marketplaces to award-winning Sonoma vineyards, these South Asian women are proof that the drinks world is better when we’re in it. Get to know them here.
🍷 Seema Gunda, Modern Wine Club
🎵 Shalini Sekhar, Ottavino Wines
🍺 Anushka Purohit, Breer
🥂 Aishwarya Balaji & Payal Thaker, A Fresh Sip
🍇 Raghni Naidu, Naidu Wines
Here’s to the Brown girls uncorking new possibilities, one bottle at a time. 🤎
brown girls, desi dinners
For our latest Brown Girls, Desi Dinners, we traded dinner reservations for gallery walls.
BGA Collective member Prachi brought our NYC community together at “Bounty,” a group exhibition curated by Sadaf Padder at Sargent’s Daughters gallery - where climate, neo-mythology, and South Asian diasporic themes took center stage.
The kind of art that doesn’t just hang - it mirrors, it holds, it makes you feel seen.
📍 Want to join the next Brown Girls, Desi Dinners in your city? Join the waitlist here.
BGA news
We’re building a new home for Brown Girl Angels! 💃🏻
You’ve been loving all the wins and the founder stories we feature in this newsletter - and want more from Brown Girl Angels. We hear you.
Later this month, we open the doors to something we’ve been quietly building - a revamped space for the Brown Girl Angels community.
Think smart investing conversations. Unfiltered founder stories.
And the kind of curated financial education we wish existed sooner.
We’ve launched Brown Girls Chaat - a weekly series taking you behind the scenes of Brown Girl Angels.
If you’ve ever thought…“I want to engage with the Brown Girl Angels community”
This is for you. ✨
Here’s what to expect:
💡 BTS of Brown Girl Angels collective: the types of deals we’re seeing
📚 Investor education that actually makes sense
🎉 Member-only events with VCs and industry experts
⭐️ Stories and wins from our inspiring community of brown girl founders and investors
Subscribe here. Forward this to your fave brown girl bestie before she hears about it from someone else.
GUPSHUP
🤎 What it looks like to balance building this community for South Asian women, while quietly navigating caregiver burnout as an eldest Brown daughter.
👀 Spotted: BGA at the UK Consul General’s house for a South Asian founders event.
🎙️ Season 2 of BGA’s podcast is launching this spring. Until then, here’s what you missed from Season 1 of Brown Girls, Bold Moves.
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