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Sugar Capital Raises $75M Third Fund As Its Co-Founder Declares “Consumer Is Back”
Sugar Capital co-founder Brian Sugar has declared consumer is back—and he’s on the attack. His early-stage venture capital firm is due to close a $75 million third fund by the...
Ami Colé’s Closure And The High Price Of Trying To Compete At Sephora
Last year, the market research Euromonitor estimated more than a quarter of all new brands were in the beauty and personal care category. With the beauty industry a drop in the bucket of the larger consumer...
Proven Expands Beyond Customization And Launches On Amazon With SkinSpecific Line
Proven, the skincare brand leveraging tens of millions of data points and an artificial intelligence-powered algorithm to personalize skincare, is launching its first non-personalized skincare line, SkinSpecific, to make its Amazon debut. The line is tackling three...
Dermatologist And Mayor Launch Provocative And Playful Gen Z Sunscreen Brand To Tackle Rising Melanoma
Melanoma is one of the most common cancers for young adults, and incidence of it has been rising. Whitney Hovenic has noticed the alarming trend in her Reno, Nev., dermatology practice. “It used to be very rare that...
B-Glowing’s Lisa King Is Back With New Brand Zen Dew To Combat Skincare Overwhelm
Lisa King has decision fatigue fatigue. After over 20 years in the beauty industry—she founded the beauty e-tailer b-glowing in 2004 and later expanded it to makeup brand b-glowing Beauty—she’s practically seen it...
Why This Beauty CEO Is Visiting Stores In All 50 States
Over half of American millennials and gen Zers’ interactions are digital, and more than 40% of beauty sales are conducted online, according to the latest estimate from NIQ. While the world is turning to...
Does Beauty Product Innovation Have An AI Slop Problem?
Beauty industry expert and consultant Lorne Lucree believes the beauty industry is stuck in a largely uninspiring product launch cycle he compares to what’s happening with artificial intelligence. “There’s this flood of content and...
