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Nov 18
2021

This isn't goodbye

They say all good things must come to an end, but you know there’s more to our story. 

Over the last 8 months we’ve had the distinguished honor of being named the #1 female-founded, female-led startup for amount of funds raised on this platform. 

Our campaign has been joined by 3,339 individuals who believe in our mission to de-stigmatize pleasure and elevate the topic of sexual wellness — that’s all of you. Collectively, you have raised $1,723,766. These are funds we planned to use to continue scaling our business and developing technological innovations to help people explore their sexuality with positivity and confidence. 

We know you believe in the work we are doing, in our Founder & CEO, Lora Haddock DiCarlo, and our entire team of talented and dedicated individuals. You’ve demonstrated that with your outpouring of support, messages of encouragement, and with your dollars. We are humbled and grateful. 

It is with a heavy heart that we share this news with you today: the compliance team at Republic has decided to withdraw our campaign. This means that your investment will be refunded, and no SAFEs will be issued. For any questions regarding transactions, refunds, or other issues pertaining to your investment status, please email Republic at investors@republic.co

We know this may be confusing and upsetting to you; it has been for us as well. However, we ultimately see this as an opportunity to continue doing what we do best — disrupting the status quo and finding innovative paths forward. 

We have some exciting news planned for the next couple of months, and more in 2022. We hope you will keep in touch with us as our story unfolds. You can sign up for our newsletter here and find us on social media @loradicarlo_hq.

From our Founder & CEO, Lora: Lora DiCarlo Inc. has recently had some positive and productive organizational and ownership changes that we are very excited about. My belief in this company’s success is steadfast and I look forward to keeping in touch with our beloved Republic community. I am available to have a dialogue around any pending questions or concerns. Please feel free to email me at lora@loradicarlo.com

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Cedrick Gray
4 years ago
So how do we get our money back it’s been months already with no response from you guys
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Luca Michelotto @cedrick-gray where can we write a complaint? I haven't receive my found either..
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Elizabeth Reilly @cedrick-gray @luca-michelotto Contact investors@republic.co for support investigating.
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Cedrick Gray @elizabeth-reilly thank you so much
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Richard Kalinowski
4 years ago
perhaps some men complained about the competition, with the toys threatening to replace them... : )
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Cedrick Gray
4 years ago
Still haven’t received my invest I sent an email to the addressed email in the article still nothing
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Manny Caban
4 years ago
I have received no refund as of yet??
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Iain Alexander
4 years ago
bizjournals.com/portland/inno/stories/inno-insights/2021/11/29/lora-dicarlo-series-a-republic.html
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Iain Alexander
4 years ago
I’m still not clear why this happened. Here is an article that gives Lora’s perspective, saying the issue related to an executive leaving and selling their shares. It would be helpful to have Republic explain their perspective, cages in whatever way is necessary because of any legal concerns:
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Todd Borandi
4 years ago
No. Still waiting! Shakes my trust in Republic and contacting Customer Service was no help either. Thanks we will take your money, but you will have to wait a month before you get it back to reinvest it.....Not good business.
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Marlon Manuel
4 years ago
Haven’t received my investment back yet. Anyone got theirs already?
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Brian McDowell @marlon-manuel I got mine in my bank like 2 days after Republic sent a mail saying the funds would be returned.
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Marlon Manuel @brian-mcdowell Still nothing.
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Alfred Mantoura
4 years ago
Well, After all that I got my investment refunded right away! how can she get a great exit for herself and I am assuming all the 3000 plus investors got their money back?
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Stephen Chase
4 years ago
Republic did not cancel. Lora canceled the funding she got a great exit for herself an not wait for investors to share. Read the announcement, management change, key words
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Kevin Harp
4 years ago
so it was republic that ended it?
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Thomas Foster
4 years ago
So, if these funds were indeed held in interest bearing accounts, it would make sense that not dispersing interest with the refunds would be patently illegal. Any attorneys out there?
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Rubina N Iqbal
4 years ago
I am so disappointed with republic I don’t know why they withdraw the offer
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Anthony Scott
4 years ago
Republic owes everyone an explanation 'full stop' to borrow from the cringe worthy dictionary
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Jose Mauricio Rocha
4 years ago
i have no words beside what's going on?
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Stephen Chase
4 years ago
You sold out to the people that support you to corporate .....
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Alfred Mantoura
4 years ago
Yes we would like to know why Lora Decarlo was pulled out and cancelled their campagne?? there must a logical good reason why, and I am sure Republic will let us investors know. I disagree with Deepu for talking Bad about Republic!! Republic is an excellent platform, I am an investor in 50 companies with republic and ALL of them and doing Great and growing Exponentially!! and with all due respect Mr Deepu, Republic DOES DO the DD before any company applies to and get accepted by Republic, Basically because to protect their reputation and ALL their investors on board!! They get accepted in the beginning after the DD is done, then Republic monitors each company they have as it progresses and grows. So Republic must have found something bad or unethical to prompt them to cancell their campagne, It must be something serious, and again, Republic has the obligation to let us inverstors why? and they will, this just happened give them time.
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Kirtson Thompson @alfred-mantoura I hope they share why this was done but I hold out no hope that they will. As this falls under the compliance team of Republic it may not be something that can be disclosed. Terrible situation, this.
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Carlos Perez
4 years ago
So what are your future plans?
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Jason Banich
4 years ago
If you didn't do something shady, then come clean and tell us what happened...
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Spencer Ryan @jason-banich doesn't look to be a problem with lora but a "compliance" issue from republic. i'll bet lora is bummed. can you imagine doing a raise this long and then finding out about this compliance problem? i think the compliance issue is that republic has to many stale old crusty white men frozen in their ways
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Jason Banich @spencer-ryan I think the compliance issue is that Lori DiCarlo did something shady, otherwise they'd just come right out and say why they were removed.
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Stephen Chase @jason-banich rederal regulations with compliance is done before posting for funding. Sold out to corporations money not the people who supported products and ideas
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Brian McDowell
4 years ago
I am still in awe that this happened. I can't believe Republic's response was to pull the whole campaign, trying to make your company look like it was doing something shady.

I hope for another opportunity to invest in your vision. I was so excited and it was a kick in the gut to see it canceled.
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Jason Banich @brian-mcdowell They're making themselves look shady by not saying why they were pulled. Why wouldn't they explain the reason?
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Brian McDowell @jason-banich Neither party is explaining the reason. It just looks questionable all around. If Republic did find something dirty - seems like they could be more specific than "compliance" and yes you're right, the company should state the reason with more than "they pulled the campaign". We know that much, obviously.
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