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Miki Agrawal

Canadian-born entrepreneur

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionMay 19, 2026
Entity authorityQ44479642 ↗
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Miki Agrawal is a Canadian businesswoman from Montreal, Canada. She is a co-founder of Thinx, a female underwear company. She later founded bidet manufacturing company Tushy.

History

Agrawal was born to a family of Indian and Japanese parents in Canada before migrating to the United States. She graduated at Cornell University and began working at Deutsche Bank's investment banking division in Liberty Street.

Agrawal is the owner of New York restaurant Wild, which has one unit in Williamsburg and another in West Village. Wild received an initial fund of $250,000 from investors.

Thinx

Agrawal co-founded Thinx, a New York company that produces "underwear for women with periods", along with her friend Antonia Saint Dunbar and sister Radha Agrawal. In 2016, they released a new line for trans men, along with a new tagline "for people with periods”. She left the company in March 2017 amid accusations of misconduct.

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Begin with the source’s own compact description: “Miki Agrawal” is canadian-born entrepreneur. The dossier treats that line as a proposition to test through Miki, Agrawal and Canadian-born, not as a finished interpretation.

Editorial reviewA concise reference frame for defining the subject, testing terminology and identifying the institution closest to the evidence. The current lead gives the account dated anchors—2016, 2017—that can be checked directly. The linked authority record independently contributes the date 1979-01-26. For this dossier, Miki, Agrawal and Canadian-born is the immediate research focus.
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This entry incorporates text from “Miki Agrawal” on English Wikipedia. Contributors are listed in the page history. Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 License. Selected authority identifiers and statements are retrieved from Wikidata under CC0; their references and qualifiers remain part of the verification path.