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Morrow Soft Goods
#515 25 Aug 2021

Morrow Soft Goods

Trained architect Michelle Toney and former fashion designer Stephanie Cleary are co-founders of Morrow Soft Goods, the Los Angeles-based homeware brand they launched in 2016. The aim was to move away from too-perfect home interiors that didn’t really feel lived-in, taking inspiration – and borrowing a colour palette – from…

Eureka 258: Pegasus Imagery
20 Aug 2021

Eureka 258: Pegasus Imagery

Cole Rosentreter is the founder and CEO of Pegasus Imagery, an Alberta-based start-up making drones to fight forest fires. With their 4-metre wingspan, these can collect data and manoeuvre more easily than helicopters.

Nude and Overflow
#514 18 Aug 2021

Nude and Overflow

Much of our personal and business finance is now managed through apps, with fintech platforms available for everything from payments to savings. We meet Marty Bell, co-founder and CMO of Nude, to learn more about the platform helping you invest for a dream home. Plus: CEO and founder of Overflow,…

Eureka 257: Square Root
13 Aug 2021

Eureka 257: Square Root

Robyn Simms is the co-founder of Square Root, a soft drinks brand she launched with her partner, Ed Taylor, in 2012. Using seasonal fruit, they make sodas and non-alcoholic cocktails at their factory in east London.

Our Place
#513 11 Aug 2021

Our Place

Shiza Shahid is the co-founder and co-CEO of Our Place. She launched the Los Angeles-based brand in 2019, hoping to create a line of cookware that would simplify home cooking while catering to a wide range of culinary styles and traditions – a goal she achieved with the bestselling Always…

Eureka 256: Tinwood Estate
06 Aug 2021

Eureka 256: Tinwood Estate

Art Tukker is the founder of Tinwood Estate, an English sparkling wine producer in southern England. The brand was launched in 2007 and makes wines from traditional champagne varietals: chardonnay, pinot noir and pinot meunier. Tukker’s parents had emigrated from the Netherlands in the early 1980s and grew iceberg lettuce…

Plus
#512 04 Aug 2021

Plus

Cathryn Woodruff and Julie Schott are the co-founders of Plus, a personal care brand making body wash in dissolvable packaging. The just-add-water idea brings together Woodruff’s passion for sustainable and purpose-driven brands, and Schott’s years of experience covering the beauty industry at ‘Elle’ magazine, where she noticed a huge waste…

Eureka 255: Wonderhome Naturals
30 Jul 2021

Eureka 255: Wonderhome Naturals

Bryan Chua is the co-founder of Wonderhome Naturals, a company based in the Philippines with a line of home cleaning and personal care products made from coconuts and plant probiotics. The packaging is made from recycled ocean plastic, which is then smartly packed and shipped in a modular system to…

The Mills Fabrica and Athletic Brewing Company
#511 28 Jul 2021

The Mills Fabrica and Athletic Brewing Company

Christian Layolle is the UK head of The Mills Fabrica, which recently opened a new location in London’s King’s Cross. Aimed at bringing sustainable innovations to scale, it’s the long-awaited expansion of the Nan Fung Group’s business-incubator concept launched in Hong Kong in 2018. Plus: we head to Connecticut to…

Eureka 254: Swapfiets
23 Jul 2021

Eureka 254: Swapfiets

Richard Burger, Martijn Obers and Dirk de Bruijn are the founders of Swapfiets, a full-service subscription bike company aiming to make travelling the city on two wheels hassle-free. The three founders met at the University of Technology in Delft and launched the company in 2014. For a monthly fee, Swapfiets…

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