Karen Moon Email & Phone Number

New York, Ny, Us

CCO, COO and founding team of a stealth AI startup backed by top tier VCs. We're a team of serial entrepreneurs, engineers, and research scientists from Amazon, Snap, Twitter, Microsoft, and innovative commerce enablement startups. We bring extensive experience in creating value and delivering ROI for Fortune 500 retailers and disruptive DTC brands. Together, we’ve built cutting-edge technologies that shape the daily experiences of millions of consumers.

- Ellevest (financial wellness, robo advisor tailored for women)- Bolt Financial (checkout OS)- Daily Harvest (plant-based CPG, regenerative farming)- OneSkin (longevity) - B Generous (fintech for the $470B donar market)- Payfully (future of income)- Upstream (web3, shopify for DAOs)- Havenly (personalized, 3D commerce for the home)- The Verticale (nextgen commerce for the conscious consumer)- Me360 (leadership development platform)- SkinDossier (bio-rich personalization)- Droneseed (reforestation at scale)—-Prior VC/PE experience. - SkullCandy (IPO in 2011, LBO 2016) - Investment team at Goode Partners, Series C- Tatcha (Acquired by Unilever for $500M) - Digital Assessment Due Diligence support for Castenea Partners initial investment - Handshake (Acquired by Shopify). Intro to lead Seed VC - Decorist (Acquired by Bed Bath & Beyond), Intro to lead Seed investorFunds: Suttona Capital, Ankh Impact Ventures, Springboard Growth Capital, Elizabeth Street Ventures, Grace Beauty CapitalAccelerators: Indie Bio. Previously mentor at Entrepreneurs Roundtable Accelerator, Project Entrepreneur, Venture For America Accelerator, Chobani Accelerator

New York, New York, Us

Female focused growth equity investor backing tomorrow's market leaders

New York, Ny, Us

Elizabeth Street Ventures is an early stage venture capital fund. It is focused on innovative next-generation consumer technology and brands. Select Investments: Current, Payfully, Pixlee, Costa Brazil, Tiny Organics, Fitz, Aday, Museum of Ice Cream.

New York, Ny, Us

SGC invests in high growth companies founded by dynamic female entrepreneurs. Targeting growth stage financings of $20M+ in consumer-facing technology companies and digitally native brands positioned to become market leaders. Portfolio includes: TheRealReal, ClassPass, Hint, Fleur du Mal, Aquis

New York, New York , Us

CEW is an international organization of 10,500+ individual members representing a cross section of beauty and related businesses. Members represent leading brands, indies, retailers, media and suppliers. CEW’s purpose is to provide programs that develop careers and knowledge of the beauty industry through industry leader talks, trend reports, newsletters and mentoring.www.cew.org

New York, Ny, Us

Podcast host with over 100 interviews with founders of venerable brands, Fortune 500 executives, investors, and technology founders. Past guests included Frederic Fekkai, Nancy Twine (Briogeo), John Demsey (Estee Lauder), Carolina Reis (OneSkin), Sasha Plavsic (ILIA Beauty), Gillian Gorman (Kjaer Weis), Julie Schott & Brian Bordainick(StarFace), Michel Brousset (Waldencast, L'oreal), Tina Craig (U Beauty), Britta Cox (Aquis, K18), Francisco Costa (Costa Brazil), Bobbi Brown, Marcia Kilgore (Beauty Pie, Bliss, Soap & Glory), Marla Beck (Blue Mercury), Terry Darland (President of NA, Christian Dior), Jasson Gilmore (Allergan), Janet Gurwitch (Advent, Laura Mercier), JuE Wong (Olaplex, Morocan Oil), and more. Beauty Is Your Business (“BIYB”) is a podcast that features thought leaders shaping the future of the beauty and wellness industry.

New York, Ny, Us

- Mission: Empowering creative organizations to reach their full potential. + an exploration of how software can be leveraged an educational tool to help right brain people exercise left brain thinking and vice versa. - Zero to one: Co-founded a predictive analytics platform that leverages machine learning to measure consumer demand to help clients optimize merchandising and identify product whitespace. Finalist in Google Machine Learning Competition. Hired seasoned CEO with 30+ years of operating experience in July 2019.- Managed cross functional team across Sales, Marketing, Client Success, Product Development, Data Science and Engineering. Recruited and onboarded executive team. Achieved SaaS ARR metrics of 91% retention and 51% multi-year contracts during tenure. Raised $7M from institutional VCs, angels and family offices.- Developed VP-C-level relationships with several clients: Ulta, Revolve, Ross, Target, Jet.com, Kohls, StitchFix, Estee Lauder Companies, Ipsy, AllSaints, Neiman Marcus, Saks, Gap Inc, Zappos, etc.- Lead initial product development initiatives until hiring and training PM and UX designer in 2018. Concept ideation and customer co-development, identifying user personas, prioritizing requirements, measuring engagement and post production customer feedback. - Established industry thought leadership position through speaking engagements, presentations and publisher partnerships.Acknowledgements: - Google Machine Learning Competition Top 10 Finalist (top 3% of applicants)- Wall Street Journal Start up of the Year Top 10 Finalist - Decoded Future of Retail Disruptors Top 5 Finalist (118 applicants)- Enterprise & Smart Data Finalist for SXSW Accelerator (among 8 finalists, over 500 applicants)- Fashion Tech Forum Founders of the Future Semi Finalist (120+ applicants)- Selected by retail execs to join the inaugural class of the New York Fashion Tech Lab (over 127 applicants)

Grace Beauty Capital invests in the next generation of innovative consumer companies. We partner with founders of early stage digital first brands, consumer, and retail technology companies to support them on their journey from kitchen table to household name.Portfolio includes Pelaton, Warby Parker, Harry’s, Rothy’s, Third Love, SuperGoop, Pause WellAging, Pixlee, Ellioqui, Bravo Sierra, MM La Fleur, Stella Service, Trendalytics and more.

StyleMusée, a visual portal to discover social media content by taste preference. We're reinventing social media content delivery for publishers, brands and their audiences.StyleMusée is an angel-backed company and was the only social commerce company selected in the 2012 SxSW accelerator and a finalist in the Harvard Business School’s 2011 edition of the Alumni New Venture Contest in New York. The founding team has experience at Google, Microsoft, Rypple, Fashion GPS, Goldman Sachs, Gap Inc. and Goode Partners.

Strategic advisory services for corporate and private equity backed clients on management strategy, operations, merchandising and planning, and social media. Strategic consulting to a confidential department store client in collaboration with boutique retail consulting firm Kurt Salmon. Operational turnaround and management for 54 store luxury specialty retailer for private equity firm Goode Partners. Advisor to independent designer on e-commerce build out and social media strategy.

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Goode Partners is a private equity firm focused on the consumer sector with $250M AUM. Evaluated growth equity investments and managed operational/strategy projects for portfolio companies.Deal execution: Completed investment in Skullcandy, Inc. Company went public in 2011 and was Goode Partner's first exit. Managed due diligence and process for debt financing and co-investments, conducted financial modeling and analysis, coordinated with external advisors including lawyers, accountants, and consultants, and created presentations and memorandum for the investment committee. Diligence process included evaluation of industry size and trends, consumer segments, focus group findings, consumer insight surveys, store visits, consumer reviews, financial analyses, sell-through performance by product and customer checks.Portfolio company work: Managed a competitive market research project for a luxury retailer and presented several retail and merchandising strategies to the Board. Worked with management team on related initiatives including direct marketing, inventory optimization and improving planning and merchandising processes for the Company’s retail stores.

Evaluated private equity investment opportunities in the skin care market, eco apparel, and identified digital partnership opportunities for Latina magazine.

San Francisco, California, Us

Provided strategic and financial assessment for several acquisition opportunities to the executive management team.- Completed market opportunity on the Active Wear market for Gap Inc. and screening of potential acquisition targets. Gap Inc. acquired Athleta in 2008 and grew it from catalog only to a 160+store nationwide brand and the company’s fastest growing brand as of 2019.- Identified and evaluated new retail concepts for the Gap Inc. brand portfolio, including market entry for Piperlime.com.

New York, New York, Us

Technology, Media and Telecom investment banking team. Completed $1 billion in M&A and financing transactions.

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Ba Business Economics

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