Forbes December 21, 2021
Health and wellness platform Sequel, which has created a leakage-preventing tampon, announced today that it has raised $5 million in combined pre-seed and seed round. Mac VC led the seed round, while other investors include Pear Accelerator, Long Journey Ventures, Ulu Ventures, Graph Ventures and angels, including Cyan Banister and Nurx CEO Varsha Rao.
According to Greta Meyer, cofounder and CEO of Sequel, while tampons re still the most commonly the best solution, they have imperfections that really affect the quality of women’s lives.
“We noticed that the tampons we were wearing were leaking before they were full and were not absorbing well enough,” Meyer says. “There were these tampons that were failing where instead of seeing it all red...