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Today we want to highlight Claire Coder, CEO and Founder of Aunt Flow – designing a world where every bathroom outside the home offers free period products.

Read on to learn more about Claire and Aunt Flow!

🩸 What They Do: Aunt Flow provides free-vend dispensers stocked with tampons and pads for businesses and schools to make period products more accessible. They work with 900+ organizations including Phoenix Mercury, KIPP Schools, O’Hare International Airport, Google, and the University of California San Diego to name a few. 86% of women reportedly started their period in public without the supplies they needed. Providing Aunt Flow period products recuperates lost work hours, increases school attendance, and is just the right thing to do! 

🩸 Why They Do It: After getting her period in public without the supplies she needed, Claire thought to herself – toilet paper is offered for free, why aren’t tampons and pads? At that moment, she decided to drop out of college and start Aunt Flow at 18 years old. She’s been on a mission to ensure everyone has access to period products ever since. 

🩸 How We Met: We met Claire and the Aunt Flow team through introductions from Sharad Daswani at Spru Ventures and Jordan Barker at Bark Equities – both part of our extensive co-investor network. While many of our investments come through our accelerator programs, we also actively leverage our network to source investment opportunities that fit our investment thesis. 

🩸 Chloe Effect: Aunt Flow has engaged across the Chloe Capital ecosystem. The team has leveraged the Chloe network for numerous introductions to potential customers, advocates, and candidates. Claire says it best, “we are insanely grateful for their network!”. Additionally, Claire actively engages in the Slack community, where she can ask any question and receive support and advice from fellow portfolio founders. 

🩸 What is Next for Aunt Flow: Aunt Flow has recently made changes to its products and packaging to ensure they’re keeping menstruators – and the planet – front and center in all that they do. They have removed all plastic from their cartridge pad packaging and eliminated the paper branding strap on their cartridge pad bundles. In addition to the brand’s sustainability efforts, Aunt Flow is committed to supporting menstruators and increasing access to quality period care. With over two million students across the country relying on Aunt Flow’s period products in bathrooms across grade schools and universities, the brand decided to roll out 36-count boxes of tampons and pads to be sold online at goauntflow.com and on Amazon. Menstruators can now stock their homes with Aunt Flow’s well-loved pads and tampons. They also just launched their new complete sanitary disposal system, the combination of easily accessible plant-based disposal bags and designated touch-free bins promotes responsible disposal and increases hygiene for janitors and restroom users alike. The system also helps reduce environmental harm by keeping menstrual product waste out of our rivers and oceans through proper disposal.

Learn more about Aunt Flow at https://goauntflow.com/