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Namaste Brown Girl,
Another week, another reminder that brown girls are no longer waiting for permission. ✨
We’re out here building companies, stepping into major leadership roles, launching global partnerships, and taking up space everywhere from finance lists to the Met Gala carpet. Casual. 💅🏼
Welcome back to Brown Girls, Money Moves - your bi-weekly download on who’s raising, building, scaling, investing, and making the internet slightly more bearable - all through a brown girl lens.
Here’s what’s inside:
🔥 Spicy money moves across beauty, biotech, fashion, and media
💸 Brown girls officially running finance
🎙️ Brown Girls, Money Moves Season 2 is live
🤎 30 days of brown girl founders for AAPI Month
☕️ Gupshup: Met Gala fits, your next binge watch, spring reading lists, and desi girls in space
The chai's hot, the headlines are hotter. Let's go. 👀
→ spicy money moves
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Another week of collecting brown girl receipts. We’re out here closing rounds, making covers, and building things the market didn't know it needed. Here's what’s making headlines.
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💍 My Big Fat Shaadi. Luxury Indian label KYNAH partnered with David’s Bridal to launch 25 hand-embroidered wedding looks - marking the retailer’s first-ever move into South Asian bridal fashion.
🥼 The skin is in. Dr. Kiran Mian has been named Director of Clinical Innovation at Reale Actives — the skincare brand founded by Alix Earle — bringing brown girl derm expertise to influencer-founded skincare.
🎙️Brown girls watch sports too. Miriam Walker-Khan built the sports media platform South Asian women never had, and now mainstream media is finally paying attention.
🫧 The math is mathing. Niharika Jhunjhunwala's Clay Co just closed a ~$3.7M Series A, taking Japanese-inspired skincare from Mumbai to global shelves in two years.
🦐 Waste not, build a company. Tydra Labs raised $1.2M in pre-seed funding as brown girl co-founder Jaiya Varshney turns crustacean shell waste into chitin-based biomaterials for packaging. We were taught not to waste anything. Jaiya built a business out of it.
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
It’s official. Brown girls are running finance.
Barron’s just dropped their 7th annual list of the 100 Most Influential Women in U.S. Finance - and the list is looking a lot more like us.
From M&A to asset management to the C-suite…we’re not just in the room, we’re making the calls.
This isn’t just visibility. It’s influence, decision-making power, and proof that the industry is shifting. Every time a brown girl makes a list like this, the table gets bigger for the rest of us.
See the full list here.
→ brown girls, money moves podcast
🎙️ Season 1 of the Brown Girls, Money Moves podcast was honest, unfiltered, and unapologetically desi.
We sat down with Brown Girl Founders and the investors who bet on them. We unpacked what it really means to build, fundraise, and exit, all through a South Asian lens. 💅
And now… we’re back.
🌶️ Season 2 just launched with new guests, a new name, a new look - and the same spicy mission.
This week, we’re getting into crypto, angel investing, big founder bets, and what happens when brown girls start building the tables and writing the cheques.
Featuring ✨ Maya Bakhai and Nitya Subramanian ✨ From Maya’s decision to invest in Para, to Nitya building in the fast-moving world of blockchain and crypto.
Inside the episode:
☕ building in emerging industries before the hype catches up
☕ democratizing access to investing + financial education
☕ founder lessons, conviction, and big brown girl energy
Pour the chai, send this to your saheli who’s always talking about “getting into investing,” and press play. Listen here.
→ 30 days of brown girl founders
During AAPI Month, we’re spotlighting 30 incredible brown girl founders - the South Asian women building businesses, raising capital, breaking rules, and making major money moves.
At Brown Girl Angels, celebrating brown girls building empires feels like the truest way to honour AAPI Month. 🤎
Get ready for 30 days of ambition, inspiration, founder stories, and proof that brown girls are shaping what’s next.
Follow along here.
→ gupshup
🪩 South Asians understood the Met Gala assignment.
📚 Brown girls are officially the main characters. Here are 9 books by brown girls to add to your spring reading list.
📺 Mindy Kaling’s new show NSFW is coming to a screen near you. Brown girl chaos incoming.
🚀 Fun fact: the brown girl behind the voice in Project Hail Mary is Priya Kansara. Desi girls are going intergalactic.
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