“It’s not a nail polish company.” It’s almost the first thing out of the mouth of Fenton Jagdeo of Faculty, the startup he cofounded in 2019 with Umar ElBably. Though their Toronto-based company currently sells just three shades of nail polish along with some nail stickers — that’s it — the products are a wedge […]
It's almost the first thing out of the mouth of Fenton Jagdeo of Faculty, the startup he cofounded in 2019 with Umar ElBably. There will be men's foundation, and eye shadow, and very possibly hair dye, all of which is focused around a "new wave of masculinity," Jagdeo explains. More, he says that in the same way that the prominent culture publication Hypebeast created a "desire for new product and newness," Faculty has "mastered the drop model," meaning that Faculty has and will continue to advertise a limited supply of a product before invariably selling out of that item.
TEDCO, Maryland’s economic engine for technology companies, announced today its Seed Fund invested
$200K in
TargetDocs, a Maryland-based technology startup. TEDCO’s Seed investment is part of an $850K funding round, which includes University System of Maryland Momentum Fund (Momentum Fund), the Hustle Fund, New Age Capital, Debut Capital, Dingman Center Angels, and Gaingels.
TargetDocs, based in Montgomery County and led by CEO
Joseph Leiva, is a construction communication platform that streamlines project file correspondence between general contractors and all of their subcontractors in one place. After graduating from the A. James Clark School of Engineering at the University of Maryland, Leiva joined his family’s construction business where he saw firsthand the need for a communication management tool tailored to the construction industry. TargetDocs was developed to help connect subcontractors and general contractors through one catch-all workspace, so that files d