Babba C. Rivera, founder and CEO of Ceremonia, is rewriting beauty standards with a Latinx lens. Born in Sweden to Chilean immigrant parents, Rivera grew up straddling cultures and never seeing her identity represented in the beauty industry. Today, she’s building one of the fastest-growing clean-haircare brands by putting culture at the center.

Whether you’re actively raising capital or simply clarifying your business vision, a pitch deck is one of the most powerful tools in a founder’s toolkit. More than slides—it’s your story, strategy, and future on display.

Two Yale juniors, Nathaneo Johnson and Sean Hargrow, are turning heads after raising $3.1 million in pre-seed funding for their AI-powered social network, Series. Unlike traditional platforms such as Facebook or LinkedIn, Series emphasizes purposeful, AI-assisted connections rather than follower counts and likes (Prosser, 2025).