Portfolio Company Spotlight: Bold Reuse
SEATTLE, WA – We’re excited to share the following interview with Jocelyn Quarrell, CEO of Bold Reuse, a portfolio company of Mastersfund. Bold Reuse is making strides in sustainability by […]
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Sybilla Masters: Her Story
Mastersfund is named for Sybilla Masters, an early 18th-century innovator in Philadelphia who invented a machine to pound corn into what we now call grits. She left her husband and four children in 1712 to seek a patent from King George III. It was the first patent awarded to anyone in the Colonies, but it was awarded to her husband. He insisted it be written “A patent awarded to thomas Masters for an invention found out by his wife Sybilla Righton Masters”. During the three-year wait for the patent, Sybilla Masters opened a millinery shop in London, where she invented a process for creating straw hats from palmetto leaves and cornered the market, and gaining a second patent for curing the Palmetto leaves. Sybilla made her husband a very wealthy man.
It takes both men and women to set things right, and both genders benefit when everyone is equally supported and rewarded in their efforts to build new and better products and processes. But for Thomas, Sybilla Masters, like so many women, would have been lost to history. For far too long, women and people of many diverse backgrounds have been intentionally excluded from the activities of invention, business, and the ownership and rewards of their own work. Mastersfund is chartered to source, fund, and champion diverse founding teams with at least one woman in a position of strategic and operational control.
It takes both men and women to set things right, and both genders benefit when everyone is equally supported and rewarded.
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SEATTLE, WA – We are thrilled to feature an exclusive interview with Kathleen Baxley, who joined Mastersfund as Chief Financial Officer in January 2024. From her early days studying English […]
Portfolio Company Spotlight: Earth Knowledge
SEATTLE, WA – We’re pleased to share the interview below with Julia Armstrong D’Agnese, CEO of Earth Knowledge, recently added to the portfolio of Mastersfund companies. Julia was recently named […]
