Brand Report
The Lip Bar Launches Grant Program Bawse Ventures
The Lip Bar is launching grant program Bawse Ventures to support the next generation of BIPOC entrepreneurs. BIPOC founders with brands across consumer packaged goods categories can apply to receive grants of up to $25,000 in funding...
Luxury Skincare Brand N8iV Beauty Speaks To The Wealth Of The Native American Experience
Ruth-Ann Thorn is the first to admit N8iV Beauty is about image. The founder of Payómkawichum descent has an unwavering vision for the brand: She foresees it in billboards on Los Angeles’s Sunset Boulevard represented...
Nicotine Replacement Therapy Brand Jones Gets Underway With $1.1M From Warby Parker Founders’ VC Firm And Others
Fueled by $1.1 million in pre-seed funding, Jones has launched to ease people off of vaping, a challenge its creators know full well. Striving to put a contemporary spin on the nicotine replacement...
Citruslabs And Sula Labs Partner To Close The Inclusivity Gap In Clinical Studies
Citruslabs and Sula Labs have joined forces to put representation front and center in clinical studies as they’re becoming table stakes for beauty brands. Historically, clinical studies of all sorts have excluded people of color,...
Cosmetica Teams Up With Celebrity Makeup Artist Katie Jane Hughes To Showcase Its Innovations
As beauty contract manufacturers increasingly step out of the shadows, Cosmetica Laboratories Inc. has partnered with celebrity makeup artist and content creator Katie Jane Hughes to spotlight trend-forward products it can produce for brands....
How A PCOS Diagnosis Led Cherice Williams To Build Multimillion-Dollar Haircare Brand Blaq Luxury
When Blaq Luxury founder Cherice Williams immigrated to the United States from Jamaica in 2016, she dreamt of completing an accounting degree and getting a job in the financial sector. Two years later, she discovered she had...
