Celine Lightfoot
A fellow human. 👋 Co-Founder, CTO @ Beni, making resale so accessible that buying new is no longer our default shopping behavior. 5+ years of building software stacks from the ground up and harnessing the power of AI to make substantial impacts for a healthy planet. Living in beautiful, sunny, Santa Barbara, CA.
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Santa Barbara Entrepreneurs Launch Beni, a Browser Extension for Secondhand Shopping
Secondhand shopping is more popular than ever thanks to fast fashion, rising costs of living, and social media trends.
This Company Wants to Make it Easier to Buy Used Clothes Online
Finding exactly the type of clothing you want or need secondhand can be a slog. A new company called Beni aims to make the process easier by...
How to save money on clothes with this Chrome shopping extension
This plugin makes secondhand shopping effortless by intercepting digital commerce queries and redirecting to secondhand alternatives.
An Investor's Guide to NFTs and E-Commerce
When you think about NFTs, you might imagine Silicon Valley finance bros trading digital images like they’re baseball cards (perhaps because sometimes NFTs actually are used to purchase baseball cards.) But the history and implications of NFTs are much more complex than that, and to understand their true value in modern commerce we must first navigate the intersection of tech, art history, law, and even feminism.