Founder22Current founder
26th percentile
Investor0Not (yet!) an investor
Combined
P&G Beauty Award-winning founder and CEO building MisTee Wants To Know
Credibility
this founder typical founder (50th pct)
Operator · 34th percentile
- Current Founder and CEO of MisTee Wants To Know, Inc., actively running the company since June 2019.
- MisTee Wants To Know, Inc. has at least two investors who have each invested twice, indicating co-founders or early team members and external backing.
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- PendingPending admin reviewCurrent Founder and CEO of MisTee Wants To Know, Inc., a Procter and Gamble Beauty/WWD Media winner using hardware and SaaS/AI to provide healthy hair solutions for people with curly/coily hair. Actively building the MisTeePRO handheld steaming tool which has one patent, another pending and an approved application with the European Patent Office. Launched in January 2026, the MisTee AI Hairstyle Planner (hair.misteeplanner.com)for people who wear different hair styles throughout the year and for those braiders/stylists that service them. 65% of the world does not have straight hair. .
- 95%Probability of being accurate (95%)Current Founder and CEO of MisTee Wants To Know, Inc., actively running the company since June 2019.
- 90%Probability of being accurate (90%)Won the Procter & Gamble Beauty/WWD Media Award in June 2022, a recognized industry honor for innovation in beauty entrepreneurship.
- 60%Probability of being accurate (60%)MisTee Wants To Know, Inc. has at least two investors who have each invested twice, indicating co-founders or early team members and external backing.
What you likely need
You're a consumer hardware founder in the beauty space with a strong brand story, a P&G-recognized product, and early investor traction — now focused on scaling MisTeePRO. The highest-leverage events for you right now are those that connect you with CPG-savvy investors, retail distribution partners, and fellow underrepresented founders who have navigated the pre-seed-to-seed transition in physical products.
Would you attend these IRL Festival events?
We will tune and customize your Founder Festival experience to make sure you get invited to the events that would be most valuable to you.
- tacticalA dinner for CPG and consumer hardware founders (pre-seed to Series A) to share go-to-market playbooks for getting into retail and salon distribution channels.
- fundraisingA roundtable with beauty-focused angels and micro-VCs (e.g., Fearless Fund, digitalundivided network) to pressure-test MisTeePRO's fundraising narrative and term sheet expectations.
- introsA digitalundivided Do You cohort alumni happy hour to trade warm intros to investors and retail buyers who back underrepresented consumer founders.
- introsA Kellogg MBA founder networking dinner to connect with fellow alumni who have scaled consumer products from idea to national distribution.
- tacticalA workshop on IP strategy and patent commercialization for hardware founders, given MisTeePRO's active non-provisional patent and European Patent Office application.
- tacticalOffice hours with founders who have successfully sold into the professional salon channel to map out a B2B distribution strategy for MisTeePRO.
- hiringA Grace Hopper Conference pitch finalist alumni gathering to build relationships with technical co-founders and engineering talent for the MisTeeAI Hairstyle Planner product line.
- positioningA small investor dinner where Janice presents her Hasbro P&L background — $100M+ managed, 1M+ units shipped — as the centerpiece of a conversation with CPG-focused pre-seed and seed investors who specifically back founders with proven manufacturing and retail-at-scale credentialsDefinitely
- fundraisingA roundtable for consumer product founders navigating non-dilutive funding, focused on SBIR/STTR applications and beauty-specific grant programs, with founders and advisors who have successfully used grant capital to extend runway while closing their first equity roundDefinitely