UP028: Summersalt // a direct-to-consumer travelwear brand for women (feat. Karen Howland of CircleUp)

Summary: Lori Coulter is the Founder, CEO and President of Summersalt. Prior to Summersalt, Lori owned and operated Lori Coulter Swimwear for 11 years. Summersalt is a direct-to-consumer, travelwear brand. Their flagship product is designer swimwear without the designer price tag. With a patent on recommending garments based on body type and consumer preference, Summersalt uses more than 10,000 scans of real women’s bodies and some 1.5 million measurements to create what it says are designer-quality garments. Summersalt was founded in 2017 and is based in St. Louis, Missouri. // Karen Howland is a Managing Director at CircleUp. CircleUp is an investment platform providing capital and resources to innovative, early-stage consumer brands. CircleUp is comprised of internally-managed funds, an investment marketplace and credit division, which are all powered by Helio, a proprietary machine learning platform that evaluates more than 1.2 million consumer and retail businesses to predict future business success. Learn more about Summersalt: https://www.summersalt.com Learn more about CircleUp: https://circleup.com/ Follow upside on Twitter: https://twitter.com/upsidefm Subscribe to the update: https://upside.fm/update