Laurel Hess

Marketer by trade, entrepreneur by necessity. I founded hampr, an on-demand laundry platform, to aid in my quest to vanquish the mental load carried by families across the country - starting with the most hated chore. Defied all female-founder stats by raising 7 figures to date and surpassed millions in revenue in less than 3 years. I have been described as "politely persistent" and "will literally run through a wall to make things work." At hampr, we have grown to more than 20 team members and scaled into more than 16 states. We are on a mission to lighten the mental load - one load of laundry at a time.

In my past life, I founded and ran a profitable digital marketing agency - doubled the team in size. I was previously the Sales and Marketing Manager at the Superdome and New Orleans Arena where we opened two new venues, Champions Square and club XLIV. I oversaw event marketing and developed rental structures and proposals for corporate + convention events.

I was once nicknamed "The Ferret" for being able to find a small but annoying numerical discrepancy in a lengthy report. I'm weirdly proud of it.