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Katherine Homuth (she/her)

Founder & CEO, Sheertex

Katherine is the CEO of Sheertex, inventors of impossibly resilient tights made using some of the strongest polymers in the world. Prior to Sheertex Katherine founded, led, and sold two businesses. ShopLocket, a pre-order platform for hardware, sold to PCH International in 2014. Female Funders, an online education program for female investors, acquired in 2017 by Highline Beta. She is the author of O'Reilly Media's Funded, An Entrepreneur's Guide to Raising Your First Round, winner of Canada's Governor General Award for Innovation, was named one of Forbes Top 30 Under 30, Canada's Top 40 Under 40, One of the Women to Watch in Wearables, One of Canada’s Top 100 Most Powerful Women and One of Flare’s Sixty Under 30.

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