Emerging Member

Tricia Herzetty is the founder of Mendy, a website and online marketplace that helps people connect with sewists to repair, resize, or remake anything in their wardrobe instead of buying something new made by fast fashion companies.

Tricia been making good things for the internet since 2011 and has focused primarily on building tools for small businesses to help them thrive.  She is really motivated to create digital tools to help others thrive with their businesses. She has over a decade of experience doing this and enjoys making difficult tasks easier.

Tricia founded Mendy as a benefit corporation and our purpose is to reduce people’s dependence on buying mass-produced items made in unsustainable ways and to use human-centered business models to boldly challenge economic systems of inequity. Specifically, she wants to help people get clothes that fit their body, their style, and their values. She is really eager to learn from and support successful sewists.

Mendy is very new and Tricia is a first-time founder in a landscape dominated by men (tech startups). She has worked in product design in tech for over a decade, and wants to use her experience building digital tools for small businesses and marketplaces to make alternatives to fast fashion more accessible to more people. She wants to build a business that prioritizes the well-being of creatives and employees, and would love to have built a company that helps hundreds if not thousands of sewists within the next 5 years.

Tricia learned to sew in elementary school from her Nana (She still has the kit her Nana gave her!), and she is rekindling her love for the skill despite a fear of the math.  Tricia has been sewing professionally for less than 5 years and would love to learn how to add pockets to existing garments!  She prefers the term "sewist" as a more gender-neutral, flexible term.

Outside of work, Tricia is obsessed with her 3 dogs, loves rowing crew at ungodly hours, and buying more books than I can feasibly read in my lifetime.

Tricia can be found at her website, and on Instagram, Facebook, LinkedIn, and Twitter:

Website: www.getmendy.com

Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/getmendyco/

Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/getmendy

LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/triciarosetty/

Twitter: https://twitter.com/getmendy