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How Hyperfocus Helped Captain Blankenship Enter Erewhon
In a market inundated with clean competitors, precision has been 15-year-old Captain Blankenship’s overriding strategy in the last few years. After a rebrand in 2022, the self-funded brand went from as many as 35 stockkeeping units across...
Sofie Pavitt Face Receives Seed Funding From True Beauty Ventures
Sofie Pavitt, the aesthetician-turned-brand founder who Nylon calls “the cool girl’s acne whisperer,” has a cool new investor. True Beauty Ventures, the beauty and wellness venture capital firm, has committed an...
Nostalgia-Soaked Sun Care Brand Standard Procedure Could Be Australia’s Hottest Beauty Export
After growing up with her parents operating Australian sun care manufacturer Concept Labs, Zepha Jackson was interested in getting far away from the sun care industry—and she did, literally and figuratively. Jackson flew from...
Latinas In Beauty Calls On The Beauty Industry To Pledge Support For Increasing Latina Representation And Impact
To boost the representation and influence of Latinas who over-index in beauty spending, the organization Latinas in Beauty is launching a petition calling on beauty industry executives and companies to amplify the presence of...
Founders On How They Arrived At The Difficult Decision To Close Their Brands
Supernal is the latest beauty business to announce it’s closing. Carried at Credo, the 5-year-old cult-favorite small-batch botanical skincare brand is known for its stunningly simple packaging and face oil. By way of an explanation,...
Luxe Botanics And Activist Beauty Founder Jene Roestorf On The Anguish Of Closing A Brand—And The Relief On The Other Side
Brand founders routinely ask Jene Roestorf what it feels like to have closed her eco-luxury botanical skincare brand, Luxe Botanics. “A huge weight has been lifted,” she tells them. “I think you expect that to happen,...
Coefficient Capital’s Anna Whiteman On The Biggest Trends Transforming Beauty And Wellness
Coefficient Capital, the consumer-focused venture capital firm, prides itself on investing in transformational consumer shifts, and partner Anna Whiteman is one of its chief identifiers of such shifts. Like most investors, she digs into the numbers...
