Igniting Courage and Unlocking Innovation

Dawn Myers is a Founder and CEO in the hardware, CPG, and retail space and a DC region ecosystem builder, having held several leadership positions in nonprofits in the tech and startup sphere. She started her company, THE MOST, Inc. to make products to meet the nuanced needs of women of color through physical products, but engineering and manufacturing tech-enabled hardware takes an incredible amount of capital and training. Dawn had to get creative to raise funds to surmount the heightened barriers to entry in this space and quickly found herself advising and coaching other women on how to work what they have to get what they need. Along the way, she acquired a passion for helping founders learn and grow in entrepreneurship. 

 

A Howard University JD and Lecturer at Georgetown University and Carnegie Mellon, she is committed to creating quality programming for founders striving to innovate for their communities. Dawn was named one of Washington, D.C.'s Tech Titans by the Washingtonian and her startup was named one of Washington's top 21 Startups to watch by The Washington Business Journal. She has negotiated partnerships with and secured funding from the world's top manufacturers including Dow, Proctor and Gamble, Sephora, and Glossier for her patented technologies in the personal care and beauty space. She is among fewer than 100 Black women to have secured over $1m in venture funding, and has secured investment from the space’s most elite investors including Mark Cuban and Emma Grede.