beth's business partner hannah kubiak wanted a change. and while the company had been growing fast beth knew she had to do something to make sure it reached the next level. >> if the company got busier you know hannah had a desire to kind of step back from the day-to-day, and i still had the vision to see the company grow and add more employees and scale it up. >> beth and hannah thad co-owned the brand which hannah had founded, since 2006. sea bags makes things like dotes, duffels and bucket bags from used sails. >> it become very clear in order to make any adjustments for either of us that we were going to have to raise some money. i couldn't afford to do it by myself and wasn't prepared to do that by myself. >> before she could restructure anything beth needed new partners. ones that would ideally add both cash and some savvy to the business. >> we wanted the product to continue to be made in maine. we wanted the product to stay out of recycled sales. and the product and our practices to be as green as we could be. >> she quickly discov