kozēkozē

kozēkozē has invented the world’s first ______ products (*Will share the product in person*) for all breastfeeding and pre/postpartum people.  

Our first product invention solves for leakage and provides comfort. Our second invention help women trying to conceive.

 Breastfeeding/Postpartum is a $2.36B industry. Our products also has other use-cases for hospitals.

We organized ourselves in September and since September we've done the following:

-hired Gembah in Austin, TX to bring us from due diligence, to design, through concept feasibility, Advanced Sourcing and building our tech-pack
-leveraged community around our founder's longstanding podcast
-are 2 weeks away from our preliminary tech-pack after which we will begin discussions with manufacturers
-plan to file our provisional patent in early December with an attorney with whom we established a relationship
-Will have a prototype in January
-Established a 3PL partner

We're raising money for development and launch of our two new inventions.  Costs include:
-$20-30,000 Product 1
-$20,000 Product 2
-$10,000 packaging for both
-$5-7,000 professional website
-$20,000 marketing./advertising
-$12,000 for both patents

To achieve our fundraise, we're looking for 1-2 Angels.

Current assets and plans: Podcast/community, one team member with 20+ years of medical device sales, Instagram and TikTok presence (via the founder); plan to launch in June.

Our mission is to redefine comfort in the trenches of postpartum life for women to forge trust within themselves, their bodies and thus, bond more easily with their babies.
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Garrett Wood Kusmierz is the CEO & Co-Founder of kozēkozē. 

After spending the first decade of her adult life in highly uncomfortable, hustle-y entrepreneurial moments Garrett had an awakening when she became a mother. What if it was all about finding comfort? Why had she run from comfort for so long? 

The early stages of postpartum life redefined the word “comfort” for her and now she’s on a mission to help others get cozy while doing the hard things including but not limited to parenting, birthing and business building. Doing the hard things gives us comfort in knowing who we really are. Knowing and loving who we really are is one of the most uncomfortable journeys we can experience.

Prior to kozēkozē and motherhood, Garrett did one of the most uncomfortable, vulnerable things possible: she wrote and published a novel based on true events from her own life called, Dare To Move. She also hosts the Dare To Move Podcast where she merges spirituality, business and self-development into inspiring conversations and free guiding episodes. Both creative projects were born out of Crossroads of Fitness, the coaching and consulting company Garrett founded in 2014 and ran through 2022.

Garrett’s first career was in real estate development and she helped with the US rollout of Caffè Nero. Her love of fitness guided her to teach at Shred415 in Chicago and also barry’s in Boston for 7 years.  Garrett has consulted for numerous wellness-based startups in Boston,  including MoveWith, TrainWithMe and Interval Fitness. When she’s not activating her passions to serve the greater good, Garrett is with her son, Decklen and husband Jeff.