Good morning, Broadsheet readers! Fashion conglomerate Tapestry acquires competitor Capri to create a massive family of brands, a new tampon will soon be on the market, and we meet the founders who are part of a new Fortune initiative. Have a relaxing weekend.
- Founders forum. This summer, Fortune brought together leading execs throughout the tech industry for our annual Brainstorm Tech conference—with a twist. For the first time, a group of influential founders gathered in the leadup to the event for the new Fortune Founders Forum.
Founders Forum is intended to create community in an increasingly distributed world where many founders lead remote or hybrid teams. Entrepreneurs are navigating a new, and much lonelier, workplace reality. Founders in this group are able to share how they're meeting the demands and opportunities of today.
This week, Fortune announced the inaugural Founders Forum class, a diverse group of founders across a wide variety of categories. To celebrate this launch, Fortune published interviews with each founder. You can learn more about some of the female founders who are part of this program and their companies below.
Air Protein founder Lisa Dyson is figuring out how to make food out of, yes, air.
Aligned AI's Rebecca Gorman aims to align A.I. more closely with what humans are actually asking it to do.
Folx Health founder Liana Douillet Guzmán is developing a digital health platform for the LGBTQIA+ community.
LaunchDarkly's Edith Harbaugh is building a feature development platform for tech companies.
Helen Kontozopoulos is behind Odaia, which provides real-time commercial insights to pharmaceutical companies. She aims to help those pharma giants get the right drugs to the right patients faster.
Jill Koziol leads Motherly, a lifestyle brand for moms.
Christie Marchese's Kinema is working to overhaul film distribution and help independent filmmakers make money.
See the full cohort and learn more about Founders Forum here.
Emma Hinchliffe
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