🎁 Grid110 Holiday Gift Guide 🎁
By: Elisabeth Tuttass
Tags: Gift Ideas, Small Business, Startup, Startup Life

We put together a list of small businesses by female founders and underrepresented founders from our community that should inspire you to #shoplocal this holiday season. For every $100 spent with a small business, $68 stays in the local economy. It’s time we support founders who have built their businesses from the ground up!

Our Grid110 gift guide includes 19 LA-based, women/POC-owned small businesses to shop this holiday. 👇🏼👇🏼👇🏼

AudioCardio is a mobile app that is designed to help you maintain and strengthen your hearing. It’s a daily, inaudible sound therapy that runs passively in the background while you do other activities like working out, listening to music, and working on your computer.

Use code GRID for 30% off.🦻🏻

2. Novelly is the largest civic-minded book club for teenagers in the US. Donate any amount now through December, and you’ll receive a copy of a youth-written poetry ebook, 2020 Sucks & Other Poems About Hope. This poetry collection reflects the profound empathy, determination, and resilience that our diverse students have displayed during a challenging year. 📚

3. Flatlay is the end to end social commerce automation platform for brands, creatives & customers. The platform provides publishing tools for anyone to start a digital storefront while empowering brands to activate a community of customers.

Friends of Grid110 receive three months of a “Pro” plan for free. Email support@theflatlay.com with the subject title GRID110 PROMO to activate. 📷

4. Classic chocolate chip cookies delivered fresh to your door. Free local delivery with code GRID 🍪

5. Support BIPOC Women-owned businesses this holiday season with the Essentials Seamless Hoop Earrings 18mm by Deluna, sold on our commonplace.

These earrings are made from eco-friendly stainless steel with a 14k gold finish and are both hypoallergenic and tarnish free, keeping a timeless look designed to last, making it the perfect gift for someone special.

Get 10% off with discount code GRID110. 💎

6. The coolest gift sets for your BFF who loves plant medicines! Gift sets include a beautiful handcrafted organic hemp rolling papers kit, rechargeable windproof lighter, and herbal grinder. Choose from a variety of rolling paper prints and signature studio finishes for the accessories. All gift sets come in a limited edition gift box, wrapping, and a handwritten love note.

One time 20% off code: GRID110VIP 🌿

7. This beautifully bundled care package by BroglieBox was created for the ultimate Wellness Warrior. It’s the perfect gift for the health fanatic or anyone wanting to make health a priority going into the new year.

The contents are useful for elevating daily lifestyle or keeping calm on this roller coaster of life. 10% off with code GRID110 🎢

8. Give the gift of self-care this season with SKNMUSE’s Holiday Exclusive of Mini Body Butters. This cute set is the perfect size for stocking stuffers, enough for everyone in the family, or just keep it all to yourself and use a new scent every day. SKNMUSE founder Ezinne Iroanya is a Grid110 I2P alumn and has been making us incredibly proud. ⚡

Within the last few months, she’s been featured in Elle Magazine, Beyonce’s Black Parade, and CRWNMAG. Watch out, world!

Use code “SKNMUSE” for 10% off. 🧴

9. Soothing herbal lollipops with functional ingredients such as honey, elderberry, chamomile, and more. Created by a scientist mom for kids and adults.

15% off with code GRID 🍭

10. Nothing says sexy holidays like Jimaye’s Ruby velvet swim briefs. Textured swimwear has finally come to the men’s market, and this luxuriously soft swimwear is changing everything. Fun fact, Jimaye’s CEO (also named) Jimaye was the pitch competition winner for our Fall 2019 Grid110 Demo Day!

Use 25% off with code GRIDDIES 🩲🏊🏽‍♂️

11. Looking for a hilariously useful gift? Dripstick is the after sex clean-up sponge that broke the internet for your friends that you’re really, REALLY close with. GRID110 for 15% off until Dec 31! 😉

12. Men’s Actually Slim Fit Shirts by Nimblemade— a casual flannel in blue with white stripes with a button-down collar. With this purchase, you support Asian-American entrepreneurs and power couple Wesley and Tanya, who are Grid110 Residency alumni. Their men’s shirts are perfect for any day event or a relaxed evening out.

15% off sitewide with code: GRID15 👔

13. The EMBLEM Convertible Bag is a compact and versatile bag that quickly converts two ways, from a hands-free belt bag to a mini shoulder bag.

It’s made of sustainable vegan leather and is perfect for slaying at home or making socially-distant coffee runs.

PRISM is founded by two female founders of color (and twins!), and their bags make a great ethical gift this holiday season.

10% off with code GRID10 👜

14. For the student in your life: Everydae helps students ace the SAT, boost their grades, build character, and prepare for college in as little as 10 minutes a day. And actually enjoy doing it.

20% off with the code GRIDFAM. Valid through Dec 31, 2020. 👨🏽‍🎓📱

15. The Ari Coach will help you eat healthier and achieve your fitness goals with personalized meal plans and easy recipes. Reach your nutrition targets and build healthy habits with Ari — your accountability buddy.

You get 30 days of Pro for free when you email hi@aricoach.com with the subject line GRID110.🥗

16. Signed Authors copies: The Power Within Me. In this book, Dr. Annice E. Fisher shares her ground-breaking 4-step consciousness-raising process for reclaiming your power. For over 15 years, she has led organizations through the change process and discovered that the baseline for creating and sustaining change is the belief that you have power in every situation.

Enter Grid110 on the purchase form and receive a complimentary The Power Within Me face mask 📗😷

17. We’ve all experienced muscle aches and pains. That’s where a massage ball comes in handy. Rolling out sore muscles stimulates quicker recovery, reduces stiffness, and eases tension.

Rawlogy Balls are sustainable, ultra-light, and travel-friendly. The Rawlogy Ball was chosen as the “Best Recovery Tool of 2020” by Outside Magazine.

A portion of your purchase goes to the National Forest Foundation. Code GRID110 for 10% off all products 🎾💆🏻

During the pandemic, Finli decided to connect neighborhood studios and schools (think: your local martial arts school or ballet studio) with companies and families looking to support small businesses and encourage them to have fun or learn a new skill — virtually. 100% of the class price goes to small businesses.

Check them out and consider gifting a course or two! 🖥️ 🎁

Upon completing the Residency program in 2019, Finli CEO Lori Shao got accepted to Techstars Los Angeles and has since raised $1.5M and has gone from solo founder to a team of 14 employees, all while being a busy mom of two. We are so proud and can’t wait to see what she works on next!

19. Give the gift of fitness, strength, and wellness with Struct Club, founded by longtime Grid110 Alum Amira!

Struct Club gift cards are redeemable for all Struct Club fitness and workout subscriptions: On-Demand Unlimited Workouts & Fitness Instructor Memberships to create and share unlimited workouts.

Struct Club Founder and CEO Amira Polack experienced this gap firsthand when she was in business school at Harvard Business School, teaching cycling classes on the side. Thankful that her journey led her to us! 🚴‍♀️🎶