👻 Namaste, Brown Girl.
Spooky season is here - and while everyone else is carving pumpkins, we’re carving out space in boardrooms, bestseller lists, and billion-dollar industries. The only scary thing right now is how unstoppable this community is. 😈✨
Welcome back to Brown Girls, Money Moves — your monthly roundup of the not-so-scary wins, headlines, and hustle fueling the Brown girl founder and investor ecosystem.
Here’s what’s bubbling up in this issue👇🏽
🧙🏽♀️ Brown girls haunting business headlines in the best way
💰 A new BGA investment shining a light on creative ownership
🔮 Scary angel investing myths busted
🇦🇺 Meet the South Asian Aussie women putting Brown girl founders on the map down under
🎙️ A new episode of Brown Girls, Bold Moves to binge this week
Grab your chai (extra cardamom for protection) and let’s stir up some brown girl magic. 🔮☕
spicy money moves
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🎃 Spooky season is here, and brown girls are busy making power moves that go bump in the night. Here’s what’s haunting the headlines this month (in the best way).
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🏆 The South Asian women on Vogue’s Business 100 Innovators: Class of 2025 list are redefining what global leadership looks like…and it looks a lot like us. ✨🌍
💰 J.P. Morgan’s powerhouse dealmaker Anu Aiyengar is officially one of American Banker’s 2025 Most Powerful Women in Finance. Boys club who?
☕️ Forget pumpkin spice latte, and elevate your morning cup with this gulab jamun coffee syrup by Transcendence Coffee instead. Now available at Athropologie.
🌶️ Meals just got a whole lot spicier, thanks to this witchy collab between Diaspora Co. and Brown girl chef Padma Lakshmi who partnered to launch Gunpowder - the South Indian spice blend your pantry has been manifesting.
🇨🇦 The South Asian women on Canada’s Top Companies list are proving a point: you don’t need a Silicon Valley zip code to build world-changing companies.
📚 Megha Majumdar’s “A Guardian and a Thief” is casting spells on the literary world with a nod from Oprah’s Book Club AND the National Book Awards (all in the same week). Adding to cart immediately.
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
This month, we’re shining the spotlight on our brown girl besties from Down Under—five Aussie South Asian female founders breaking barriers and reshaping industries from fashion to education.
👗 Priya Ravindra, Founder of Punar
A globally recognized changemaker on a mission to create 10,000 safe jobs for women, while shaking up fashion and gifting with sustainability at its core.
📰 Simran Nandan, Founder of Melanin Magazine
A two-time exited EdTech founder turned media visionary, Simran now leads across education, AI, and digital strategy. As the powerhouse behind Melanin Magazine, she shows up with purpose, clarity, and intention, creating platforms that amplify underrepresented voices and inspire collective growth.
🗞️ Kavita Lala, CEO of Indesign Media
At the helm of one of APAC’s most influential media empires, Kavita is redefining what modern advertising looks like — and who it’s built for. Her portfolio spans design, luxury travel, architecture, and beyond, setting the standard for brands that lead rather than follow. And because representation isn’t just a business metric, she’s also building spaces where women across these industries can collaborate, connect, and shape the future together.
📚 Natasha Hemer, Founder of Flexibrain
An educator and innovator, Natasha is reshaping how literacy and learning connect communities. Through Flexibrain, she empowers migrant families and young learners with tools for confidence and success. Passionate about diversity in education, Natasha blends purpose with creativity, building a future where every learner feels seen, capable, and inspired.
🤎 Nandita Maharaj, Founder of Goods 4 Good
A marketing veteran turned social entrepreneur, Nandita is on a mission to channel everyday spending toward positive impact. Through Goods 4 Good, a certified social enterprise, she’s building a marketplace that uplifts Australian social enterprises, combining 20+ years in marketing with a deep passion for purpose-driven commerce.
🇦🇺 And if you’re hungry for more stories like these, check out our friends at Melanin Magazine—a cultural and creative hub shaping the next wave of diverse business and media across Australia and New Zealand. From run clubs to supper clubs, corporate panels to media activations, they amplify underrepresented voices through storytelling, events and partnerships - creating pathways for visibility, investment and collaboration.
👉🏽 Subscribe to their newsletter here: Melanin Magazine
the brown girl angels collective
This Diwali season, we’re choosing light over darkness, abundance over scarcity, and investing in our community. 🪔
We’re thrilled to announce Brown Girl Angels latest investment in Cosynd, a cloud-based suite of copyright tools that empower users to create, negotiate, and sign vital copyright agreements that secure their rights and seamlessly register their works with the U.S. Copyright Office.
A little more about Cosynd 👇🏽
With a trusted customer base of thousands of copyright owners across 160+ countries, Cosynd helps protect millions of assets that power the global creative economy and reach over 3 billion people daily — serving clients such as Hearst, Condé Nast, Axel Springer, and leading music catalog owners like Epidemic Sound.
At Brown Girl Angels, we invest in women rewriting the rules and redefining how women show up - in business, in capital, and in community. Cosynd is building the infrastructure that helps creators own what they create - and that’s a kind of empowerment we believe in.
Welcome to the BGA family, Cosynd! Here’s to investing in our light, our power, and our stories. 🤎
angel investing 101
Angel investing shouldn’t be scary. 👻
The real nightmare? Brown women who believe investing isn’t for them.
That’s why we exist - to exorcise those scary myths one by one.
🔮 At Brown Girl Angels, we’re making investing:
✨ more accessible ✨ more collaborative ✨ more impactful
It’s not ghosts keeping brown women from angel investing…it’s outdated beliefs haunting us. 🧟♀️
brown girls, bold moves podcast
🎙️ In the latest episode of Brown Girls, Bold Moves, Shaherose Charania (Women 2.0, Unshackled, Nike) and Ishveen Jolly (OpenSponsorship) join us for a conversation that embodies the core values of Brown Girl Angels: The power of paying it forward. They dive into how Sevā and giving to others influences their work and creates pathways to capital, about the growing presence of South Asian women in business and sports, and what it’s like to be supported by someone like Serena Williams.
🎧 Listen to the full episode here
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GUPSHUP
🙋🏾♀️ Brown Girls, Desi Dinners🍴
The response to our Brown Girls, Desi Dinners series has been unreal. Clearly, there’s a hunger for spaces where ambitious South Asian women can slow down, show up, and speak freely.
Our first few dinners in Toronto, SF and New York were magic. 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 fall. Make sure you’re on the waitlist. ✨
🗓️ Upcoming Dinners
🍽️ Hong Kong
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