Exclusive: Stella & Dot Founder Raises $5M For Her Next Act, AI Marketing Startup Marklo
In this Crunchbase News exclusive, we spoke to Marklo AI founder Jessica Herrin about her solution to the marketing problems she encountered when building earlier startups, and how a group of investors, led by Forerunner, are backing that early experience with a $5 million seed funding round.
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Jessica Herrin was pregnant with her first child and working at Dell when she began testing jewelry trunk shows in Austin on nights and weekends. The venture became Stella & Dot, a business that sold more than $2 billion in products through a network of independent sellers.
Two decades later, Herrin is building a business around the marketing problems she encountered along the way. She started Marklo in 2025 to help consumer brands decide which products to promote and prepare…
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