Overview

Gender

female

Investor Type

Angel

Investor Stage

Early stage Venture,Late Stage Venture,Seed,Venture

Miki Agrawal is a force of nature. She was named 2017 Young Global Leader by the World Economic Forum, 2016 Most Impressive Women Entrepreneurs by INC, 2016 Crain's 40 Under 40, made cover of Entrepreneur Magazine, 2015 Social Entrepreneur of the Year at the World Technology Awards and her company THINX was named 2017 Most Innovative Companies by Fast Company, Time Magazine’s “25 Best New Inventions of 2015″. Miki Agrawal was also the recipient of the TriBeCa Film Festival’s “Disruptive Innovation Award” and was named one of the “Top 20 Millenials on a Mission” by Forbes.

She was the CEO and Co-Founder of THINX, a high-tech, beautiful underwear solution for women to wear during their periods. She teamed up with AFRIpads in Uganda to fund a pack of reusable cloth pads for every underwear sold to get millions of girls back in school. To date, Miki Agrawal and the company helped over 30,000 girls go back to school.

Miki Agrawal's subsequent focus was solving the light bladder leakage problem that moms are facing today and giving women who leak the ability to feel like themselves again. 1 in 3 women pee a little when they laugh, jump, jog, sneeze or cough. So, innovator Miki Agrawal and her team created a bespoke patented underwear called ICON to remind these women that they are powerful women first and mothers second. For every Icon sold, they are funding Fistula Foundation to fight the fistula crisis in Africa and other developing countries.

Miki Agrawal's current focus is in the antiquated bathroom category with her newest product,TUSHY: For People Who Poop (www.hellotushy.com). TUSHY aims to be the #1 solution for "nether region health", and to upgrade the American bathroom experience, which hasn't changed since 1890s. Via TUSHY, Miki Agrawal aims to help fight the global sanitation crisis affecting 40% of the world.

Miki Agrawal is also the Founder of the acclaimed farm-to-table gluten-free pizza concept WILD (www.eatdrinkwild.com) and 2015 marked the restaurant brand's 10 year anniversary (a feat in and of itself!).

Harper Collins published Miki Agrawal's book, entitled “DO COOL SH*T” on entrepreneurship and lifestyle design. The book hit #1 on the Amazon Bestsellers list in entrepreneurship. Miki Agrawal's second tome, "Disrupt-Her: A Manifesto for the Modern Woman" was published in 2018, with a third book anticipated a launch in 2021.

Miki Agrawal is an identical twin, half-Japanese, half-Indian French Canadian, former professional soccer player and graduate of Cornell University.