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Breakthrough: Pitch Night at STL Startup Week
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Event Sessions

4:00 PM - 4:45 PM
Success from the Start - Legal Startup Support
4:30 PM - 6:30 PM
[ CLOSED ] Private Pitch Circle
4:30 PM - 6:30 PM
[ CLOSED ] Private Pitch Circle
5:00 PM - 6:00 PM
Open Mic Pitch Night
6:00 PM - 7:00 PM
Pitches Get Stitches: Throwdown
Candera Thompson

Candera Thompson

Speaker
Founder & CEO – Bask & Bloom

After working in Marketing, Consulting and Sales for 8 years, I launched Bask & Bloom Essentials. I suffered from severe postpartum shedding and hair loss with my 3 kids and wanted a full line to help women bounce back to healthy, flourishing hair. Bask & Bloom Essentials is an emerging, textured hair care brand with unique, key ingredients that offers intense moisture, protection from breakage and promotes growth. We are speaking the language around overcoming many changes that affects our hair.

Personal & Brand features includes: Essence, Elle.Com, Huffington Post, Byrdie Beauty, Cosmopolitan, Allure, Black Enterprise, Beauty Independent, Rolling Out & Forbes.

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