WEBINAR

How Stripe & Stare created the world's comfiest knickers

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Posted: Wed 5th Mar 2025

Join Emma Jones for a Q&A session with Katie Lopes, co-founder of Stripe & Stare.

The company sells "the world's most comfortable knickers" online, in the UK and overseas, and through stores, including Selfridges and Marks & Spencer.

As co-founder, Katie has led the business through angel and venture capital funding and is now supporting other female founders through mentorship. Join this webinar to hear Katie's story of start-up and continued business growth.

Topics covered in this session

How Katie came up with the idea for Stripe & Stare
Product sustainability
Business funding and strategy

About the speaker

Katie is the co-founder and creative director of the sustainable underwear brand, Stripe & Stare.

Launching the business in 2017 after a career in TV production and running a fashion shop on King's Road, Katie spent six years on market research and is now reaping the results.

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Emma JonesOfficial

Following a degree in Law and Japanese, Emma joined international accounting firm Arthur Andersen, where she worked in London, Leeds and Manchester offices and set up the firm's Inward Investment practice that attracted overseas companies to locate in the UK. In 2000, bitten by the dot.com bug, Emma left the firm to start her first business, Techlocate. After 15 months, the company was successfully sold to Tenon plc. The experience of starting, growing and selling a business from a home base gave Emma the idea for Enterprise Nation which was launched in 2006 as the home business website. The company has since expanded to become a small business membership community of over 75,000 people who benefit from events and support: online and in person. Enterprise Nation also presents a campaigning voice to government and the media on behalf of its members. In 2021, Emma was awarded a CBE for services to small businesses and entrepreneurs.

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