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DFN Ventures Invests In Crème Collective To Grow Outsourced Infrastructure For Beauty Brands
DFN Ventures has invested in Crème Collective, and its founder Jeremy Triefenbach has become CFO of the sales and marketing agency that’s worked with many of the beauty industry’s most-coveted and cutting-edge brands.
Will Beauty’s Recent String Of Strong Sales Doom The Lipstick Index?
In 2020, Circana, the market research firm then called NPD, estimated prestige beauty sales dropped 19%. Since then, they’ve only risen, though at a lower rate each year. They increased 30% in 2021, 15% in...
Walmart Introduces The Body Lab’s Body Care Customization Concept
The Body Lab is enabling Walmart shoppers to concoct body care the way they want. The latest customization brand from the maker of Strands, a science-driven premium direct-to-consumer brand started in 2020...
Indu Raises Over $5M In Seed Funding From Unilever Ventures, V3 Ventures And More
Indu is growing up. The British brand aimed at teens and started by the co-founders of Feelunique has moved to the next developmental phase of fundraising by securing $5.1 million in a seed...
Lily Collins Joins Silas Capital And G9 Ventures In Celebrity Hairstylist-Founded Roz’s Oversubscribed Seed Round
Before launching her clean luxury haircare brand, Roz, in 2021, Mara Roszak spent two decades as a hairstylist handling the hair of some of Hollywood’s brightest stars—Emma Stone sported a loose, polished look courtesy...
XRC Ventures Expects Wellness Deal Activity To Pick Up
After a slowdown in vitamin and supplement brand deals, XRC Ventures predicts activity will pick up over the next two to four years. As covered in the venture capital firm’s second quarter report...
Why Wittington Ventures Is Leaning Into Consumer Investments As Other VC Firms Do The Opposite
In Canada, it’s hard to escape the impact of the Weston family. From a single Toronto bakery established in 1884 by American-born entrepreneur George Weston, it spawned aptly named George Weston Ltd., a multibillion-dollar publicly traded retail colossus...
