After raising over $3M, popular VC-backed beauty brand Ami Colé is shuttering ByWagga PublishedJuly 17, 2025 Diarrha N’Diaye-Mbaye, one of the first among the small number of Black women to raise more than $1 million in venture capital, hinted that one of the problems was tension between her and investors’ expectations of a consumer retail business.
