Founder & Editor
May Levy (@maylevy89) is the founder and editor-in-chief of brat.cc, a publication about the self-made women building and running the businesses that shape culture, infrastructure, and markets. Formerly covering venture capital at major business publications, she specializes in analyzing seed-stage deal mechanics, AI consumer products, and female-led founder networks.
“reporting on business should prioritize raw conviction, mechanical clarity, and verifiable execution. i reject promotional hype in favor of studying patent-led persistence and self-made grit.”
Qwhat drives your focus on self-made female-led enterprises?
historically, women-led business coverage is often relegated to soft lifestyle features. at brat.cc, we treat these enterprises with the serious, analytical, and forensic financial attention they deserve.
Qhow do you ensure reporting integrity and eliminate hype?
we do not publish unsourced rumors. we cross-reference every timeline event and growth metric against verifiable public documents, regulatory files, and primary sources.
ai
“The youngest Gates is building an AI shopping company on one condition: it can't lean on her last name.”
Phia started as two Stanford roommates' frustration with secondhand shopping. It launched in April 2025 and is now valued around $185 million — with none of it coming from Bill and Melinda Gates.
ipo
“She took the part of the tech industry that tried to push her out and built a company around handing women the first word.”
In February 2021, at 31, Wolfe Herd became the youngest woman to take a company public in the United States. The image of her ringing the Nasdaq bell with her infant son became an emblem for working mothers in tech.
bootstrapping
“No fashion background, no business degree, and a patent she drafted herself. The idea was cheap; the persistence wasn't.”
She was selling fax machines door to door when she cut the feet off a pair of pantyhose. Spanx launched in 2000, and by 2012 Blakely was the world's youngest self-made female billionaire.