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Walker & Company Brands, Inc.
http://www.walkerandcompany.com/Last activity: 28.05.2021
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We want to completely reinvent the way our community learns about, purchases and enjoys health and beauty products. We’ll do this by developing, designing and testing products and services specifically tailored to our community's needs and delivering on the promise of great customer service and a simple shopping experience.
Location: United States, Georgia, Atlanta
Employees: 11-50
Total raised: $30.9M
Founded date: 2013
Investors 6
| Date | Name | Website |
| - | Next Legac... | nextlegacy... |
| - | a16z | a16z.com/ |
| - | 500 Startu... | 500.co |
| - | Next Play ... | nextplayca... |
| - | Upfront Ve... | upfront.co... |
| - | GV | gv.com |
Funding Rounds 2
| Date | Series | Amount | Investors |
| 28.09.2015 | Series B | $24M | - |
| 17.06.2014 | Series A | $6.9M | a16z |
Mentions in press and media 22
| Date | Title | Description |
| 28.05.2021 | DELTA AIR LINES, INC. Delta Air Lines : 6 takeaways from Tristan Walker in the first episode of Delta's ‘Gaining Altitude' series | The COVID-19 pandemic. Income gaps between the rich and poor. How can we all work together to make the world a better place? They're big topics. And they were all on the table as Delta CEO Ed Bastian sat down with Tristan Walker for the pre... |
| 28.01.2021 | Removing Civil Rights Law From Section 230 Will Create Many New Problems, While Failing To Fix Existing Ones | We've covered so many bad faith bills that are attempting to undermine Section 230 for silly and disingenuous reasons. However, I expect we'll be seeing many more bills coming up that actually mean well, and have good intentions underlying ... |
| 28.01.2021 | Removing Civil Rights Law From Section 230 Will Create Many New Problems, While Failing To Fix Existing Ones | We’ve covered so many bad faith bills that are attempting to undermine Section 230 for silly and disingenuous reasons. However, I expect we’ll be seeing many more bills coming up that actually mean well, and have good intentions underlying ... |
| 13.12.2018 | Term Sheet — Thursday, December 13 | THE 2018 STATE OF STARTUPS Good morning, Term Sheet readers. Paid Content How can you protect what you can't see? From ExtraHop Here are some of the most interesting takeaways from the report: What is investors’ strongest bias? Founders see... |
| 12.12.2018 | Top startup news for today, Wednesday, December 12 | Good morning! Here are some of the top technology startup news stories for today, Wednesday, December 12. LatticeWork raises $13 million for Amber, the first all-in-one smart storage platform. LatticeWork, a tech startup that develops clou... |
| 12.12.2018 | Procter & Gamble acquires Walker & Company, Tristan Walker will remain as CEO | Walker & Company Brands, a startup making health and beauty products for people of color, has been acquired by consumer giant Procter & Gamble. The company was founded five years ago by Tristan Walker, who previously led business de... |
| 06.02.2017 | Twilio’s Jeff Lawson wins the Crunchie for Founder of the Year | The Silicon Valley startup scene gathered in San Francisco tonight to celebrate the 10th Annual Crunchies Awards — and if there’s one kind of person the startup scene lionizes, it’s founders. Tonight, Twilio co-founder and CEO Jeff Lawson w... |
| 31.10.2016 | 13 Black Founders Making Moves in Tech | Diversity has been a huge issue in tech for many years, more specifically a lack thereof. Although African Americans represent a small percentage of individuals in tech today, we're seeing more black founders than ever before. They are not ... |
| 18.02.2016 | Why the Founders of Code2040 Are Changing the Face of Silicon Valley | This profile is part of “The Fortune Entrepreneurs” list. See the full package here. Laura Weidman Powers, 33, and Tristan Walker, 31, co-founders of nonprofit Code2040, both hail from New York. Yet, their backgrounds couldn’t have been mor... |
| 29.01.2016 | Meet The People Vying For The Founder Of The Year Crunchie For 2015 | The 9th Annual Crunchies are almost upon us. On February 8, luminaries from some of the best and brightest startups around will descend upon San Francisco’s War Memorial Opera House to take part in an event that’s best described as the Osca... |
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