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Lion Pose

Winter 2021 · Active

Clinical skincare tested on diverse skin, now available in Sephora.

Location: San Francisco, US

Founded: 2021

Team size: 3

Founders

  • Nisha PhatakFounder

    Cofounder of Lion Pose, making clinical skincare products for people of color. Formerly ran Operations at Great Jones (DTC cookware) and Huggable (DTC infant formula). Former Head of Business Development at Indiegogo and led the Google partnership at Box. Alum of Harvard Business School, Carnegie Mellon (Statistics), Y Combinator, and Sephora's accelerator program. Recovering financial analyst in the consumer tech sector.

  • Madhu PunjabiFounder

    Former CEO of Huggable. Previously a Product Manager at Facebook, Pinterest, and TellApart. Prior to that, she worked on finance and partnerships for Google Shopping. Graduated from Harvard Business School and New York University.