Namaste, Brown Girl.
Hot girl summer? Try having a spicy brown girl summer instead. 🌶️☀️💅🏽
We’re back in your inbox with Brown Girls, Money Moves—the brown girl business newsletter written by brown girls, for brown girls.
The BGA team took some much-needed OoO time. But while July had us sipping spritzes abroad, the real heat came from brown girls making moves.
In this edition, brown girls are raising rounds, rebranding skincare empires, and casually redefining what angel investing even means.
💄 A glow-up for our fave Ayurvedic skincare brand (spoiler: she’s a BGA portco)
💰 South Asian investors backing a $12M raise in women’s health tech
🧃 A bevvy of brown girl beverage founders redefining what (and how) we sip
❤️🔥 Plus, a founder raising $5M to make AI your next matchmaker (literally)
Grab your coconut water and let’s get into it.🧋
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spicy money moves
Not just making money—making news. From multi-million dollar raises to global beauty lists, these are the brown girl wins lighting up our Whatsapp family group chats.
🏆 Brown girl VCs are on fire. Shoutout to these South Asian female investors who made Business Insider’s Seed 40 list, aka the who’s who of early-stage investing.
💄 Major glow-ups for our portfolio companies. Beauty brand Sahajan, founded by Lisa Mattam, just debuted its fresh rebrand. Meanwhile, MyFO (our fave family office platform) just scored big with a feature in Family Wealth Report’s 2025 Acclaim Magazine.
💰 We love celebrating brown girl investors making money moves. Brown girl investors Neha Khera & Mona Minhas, investors in Eli Health, are cheering on its $12 M USD raise to bring hormone tracking to your bathroom counter.
❤️ Dating, but make it AI: Brown girl founder Nandini Mullaji just raised $5M for Sitch, an AI-powered matchmaking app backed by M13, a16z Speedrun, and Anna Barber. Alexa, find me someone with a diverse investment portfolio.
💋 We see you, beauty queens: Congrats to Sahajan, Shaz & Kiks, and Blume—brown girl–founded brands who made Beauty Matter’s NEXT 50: The Brightest Start-Ups in Beauty. The beauty shelf is looking very South Asian right now.
the founder’s club
🧃The Brown Girl Founders Club: Beverage Brand Edition🧃
Summer BBQs, picnics, spontaneous brown family hangs—it’s officially sip season. And these South Asian founders are changing what we drink and why we drink it. ☀️🍹
From adaptogenic teas to non-alcoholic spritzers, meet the Brown girls who are redefining the way we sip and savour.🧋✨
📩 Got a fave brown girl founder or product we should know about? Let us know!
ANGEL INVESTING 101
Angel Investor vs. Venture Capitalist—what’s the difference? 🤔
Let’s break it down:
😇 Angel Investors = Individuals investing their own money (or through family offices), often the first true believers in early-stage startups.
💼 Venture Capitalists = Institutional professionals managing other people’s money (aka pooled funds)—think firms, funds, and sometimes committees.
At BGA, we’re proud to be a collective of brown girl angel investors. We’re not a VC fund—we’re an angel group. That means we’re early. We’re intentional. We’re betting on brown girl founders before everyone else catches on.
👩🏽💻 Founders → Choosing your funding source is one of your most important decisions. It’s important to understand the differences between angel investors, venture capitalists and other sources of funding before starting your fundraising journey. Not all money is created equal.
💰 Aspiring Investors → Looking to diversify your portfolio? Understanding how (and where) to deploy your capital is key—whether by investing directly or through a managed investment.
Got Qs? We’re here for them. Drop your angel investing questions to our instagram and we’ll answer them in a future issue.
✨ Ready to join us? Whether you’re already writing cheques or just curious to learn more, explore our BGA memberships. This space was made for you
bhar’s picks
I’m still on cloud 9000 after last month’s Toronto Tech Week event with SickKidsWomen Powered.
As a SickKids mom, hosting BGA’s first event in their new space was deeply full-circle. We gathered 50+ South Asian women—investors, founders, allies—to talk openly about money, investing, and impact. And we did it alongside an incredible partner, SickKids, whose WomenPowered model is reimagining philanthropy through the same lens —community-led, women-powered, and impact-driven.
This wasn’t just another networking event. We heard from three phenomenal brown girl founders, and we shared stories, strategies, and dreams.
There was a moment when I looked around and realized: this room, this energy, these women—it’s exactly what I imagined when BGA was just a dream in my head.
The room was electric. Because, as we all know, when brown girls get together, magic happens.
🌟 I hope you can join us for future BGA events. Watch this space to learn more—and bring a friend. Brown girl magic is better when shared.
All women—founders, investors, leaders, and operators—to talk openly about money, investing, and impact.
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