Red Clay
A Platform for Designing Exceptional Products
Red Clay is a marketplace for industrial product design. It is a technology solution that leverages an on-demand community of award winning design talent to elevate your product design, quickly and affordably.
Some milestones from the the past quarter:
– One month into our second quarter we have already booked double our sales from all of last year, and revenue is growing
– A successful start to the Target 6 month contract, they identified 3 additional teams to leverage Red Clay, including those that lead merchandising partnerships with Disney and Dreamworks, growing the number of employees using the platform from 3 to nearly 50.
– Having a Red Clay designed product was featured in Time Magazine (http://time.com/3927708/senior-smartwatches/)
– Shhh…but, Red Clay was leveraged by an major cable tv entrepreneurship show to help a struggling business owner develop a better version of her product. Look for the episode to air in January!
Founders
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Co-Founder, CEO, Fearless Leader
Founder @Red Clay • Worked at @Obama for America, @Women’s Startup Lab • Studied at @UIC, @University of Wisconsin, Green Bay
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Co-Founder, Head of Business Development
Founder @Red Clay • Worked at @The Clorox Company, @Kohler Co., @Wm. Wrigley Jr. Co. @Newell Rubbermaid • Studied at @Madison
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COO
Founder @Red Clay, @So Ill Holds • Worked at @Women’s Startup Lab, @Sutton Suzuki Architects • Studied at @Harvard, @Fort Hays State
Traction
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CustomerWe were able to share our vision for a new product for seniors – styled with dignity – and easily find a designer who could make our creative vision become a reality.
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we did a crowd sourced baby nursery furnishing project
Funding
Investors from previous rounds
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Investor
Teaching the masses on investing Futureinvestor.co; Investor with a focus on online platforms.
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Investor
I am an angel investor in over 60 startups, including Uber.com (first round). I have a $10m angel fund and host the largest startup conference in the world.
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Our mission: To support founders & inspire innovation
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Investor
General Partner, Structure. investors in Uber, SurfAir, Boatbound, Pogoseat, Breather, +70 more. founded and sold companies. Under-utilized assets and capacity.
Team
Employees
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Victoria ChaoViaMarketing and Communications
Communications & Marketing at Red Clay. Previously worked for KFF, RWJF, and in news at KQED, WGBH, NPR HQ. Harvard and Brown alum. Always looking for a mentor.
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CTO
CTO / Product manager / full-stack web developer (Rails, .Net) with team management experience. Focused on user-centric design, and best practices.
Past Employees
Advisors
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Red Clay is a platform to enable consumer product companies to build innovative products faster, an open Quirky platform
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AdvisorRed Clay has built the innovative product development process that brands have been looking for. Works great!
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I’ve been really impressed with Abigail & Ashley — they are smart, thoughtful and ambitious.
Board Members
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I’m excited to be an early investor in Red Clay. Fantastic team intent on execution and remarkable insight into where product design is going. I recommend.