Editor
When Nadya Okamoto, founder of period care brand August, spoke with investors interested in her pre-seed business in June 2021, they were compelled by Okamoto’s vision for a more inclusive, gender-neutral period product. But they were even more intrigued by August’s hyper-engaged community of a few thousand people on a little-known platform called Geneva, what Okamoto calls “slack for Gen-Z.”
The fledgling brand successfully raised…
