Cami Téllez

Cami Téllez is the founder and CEO of Parade—a community-first underwear brand that’s writing a new underwear story. Parade makes Creative Basics, expressive and sustainable skin-contact clothes that celebrate who you are today. Since its launch in 2020, Parade has sold more than 2M pairs of underwear, built a team of 60 diverse individuals and raised more than $40M from investors such as Stripes, Maveron, Lerer Hippeau, Greycroft, and the founders of Away, Casper, Bonobos, and Warby Parker. Cami founded Parade after dropping out of Columbia University to provide an alternative to brands that were pushing a one-body narrative and male-dominated idea of sexiness.