How to Invest in a Latina-Owned Startup | Rebecca Alvarez Story | Bloomi
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Jannese Torres
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🗓️ 9 March 2023
⏱️ 43 minutes
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Summary
Episode 201 talks about how to invest in a Latina-owned startup, featuring Rebecca Alvarez Story of Bloomi. Listen now!
Rebecca Alvarez Story, CEO of Bloomi, believes the key to unlocking satisfying intimacy starts with unlearning bad sex ed. As a nationally sought-after sexologist and entrepreneur, she is helping to normalize sexual wellness by creating accessible, clean intimacy products and inclusive content with Bloomi.
Rebecca is one of the few Latinas in the US to raise over $1M in venture capital and in 2022, Bloomi became the first Latina-led brand to launch in the sexual wellness aisle in over 1200 Target stores nationwide.
As a mom of two daughters, Rebecca also prioritizes family-time and believes it is critical for families to be able to have open conversations about the body. A pioneer in the space, Rebecca graduated from UC Berkeley with a major in sexual wellness that she created and holds a Master’s in Sexuality Studies.
Rebecca has been featured and contributes to publications including Forbes, Well+Good, Parents Latina, Byrdie, Refinery29, Elite Daily, BeLatina, Mitú and more. She has been named a Changemaker by Well+Good and Forbes’ Next 1000. As a proud daughter of Latinx immigrants, Rebecca also focuses on diversity initiatives that elevate other BIPOC in entrepreneurship.
You can follow Rebecca on Instagram, TikTok, LinkedIn & Pinterest.
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| 0:00.0 | Okay, so let's talk about how would you become an investor in Blooming? |
| 0:03.4 | How does one become an investor? |
| 0:05.1 | Do I need to be a millionaire? |
| 0:06.5 | Investing is how we build major wealth. |
| 0:09.2 | And investing with the reason that people are able to gain so much wealth is because of the value of equity. |
| 0:14.7 | Equity in a home. |
| 0:15.7 | Equity in a startup. |
| 0:16.7 | Thank you, Obama. |
| 0:18.0 | He basically allowed a regular person to invest in a startup. You don't have to be an accredited investor, which means if you are able to be accredited, you have, I believe it's a million dollar in assets and make either two to 300,000 depending on your marriage status a year. And I think for a lot of people, that's not attainable, right? And so if you can be accredited, great. |
| 0:37.7 | But if you can't, now people can invest through crowd equity, which is when you can invest |
| 0:42.7 | one to $200 or more. And you basically own a piece or a future piece of that startup. |
| 0:48.3 | The way people can invest in Blooming today is you can invest via WeFunder. There's a website, |
| 0:53.6 | we funder.com slash Blooming. You read our story |
| 0:56.7 | if you're not already hooked on our story and our growth trajectory and you can basically |
| 1:01.3 | learn about the startup. Click through all of the different pieces of our deck because this is what |
| 1:05.9 | other investors are also viewing and you get to decide what you want to invest. There's also perks |
| 1:10.4 | if you invest at |
| 1:11.1 | certain levels. Essentially, you are time-stapping an investment. And as we keep growing, you have now |
| 1:17.3 | invested early. And so if there's, let's just say, an acquisition in the future or something |
| 1:23.0 | that has a payout, you would be an early stage investor in that company. |
| 1:31.2 | You're listening to, |
| 1:35.3 | A personal finance podcast for the modern Latina. |
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