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Willow Growth Partners’ Deborah Benton On Fair Early-Stage Deals, Launching A Brand In A Down Market And The Metaverse
Deborah Benton, founder and managing partner Willow Growth Partners, an investment firm constructed specifically to support early-stage consumer brands, is the first to acknowledge she was part of a problem she’s now trying to solve. “I had...
What Constitutes A Cult Brand, According To Cult Capital
Cult Capital has a pretty remarkable track record of picking beauty companies that build cult brands. In 2015, the growth capital investment firm formerly known as JMK Consumer backed sunscreen specialist Supergoop, and baby and kids’...
Aria Growth Partners’ Trevor Nelson And Jackie Dunklau On The Strength Of Beauty As Retailers And Consumers Shift
Trevor Nelson and Jackie Dunklau have been involved with scores of investments in brands across almost every consumer packaged goods category, including beauty, personal care, food, beverage, household, baby and pet products. Think Barkthins, Evol Foods, Daily Harvest...
True Beauty Ventures’ Cristina Nuñez On Bridge Mentorship, Missteps Indie Brands Make And Hot Beauty Categories
About a year and a half ago, Cristina Nuñez and Rich Gersten set out on a novel project to establish True Beauty Ventures as a venture capital firm with operational and financial expertise focused on beauty and...
Why Swiftarc Ventures Is Betting On Beauty Startups
Swiftarc Ventures is getting serious about the beauty industry as venture capital’s profile in it heightens. Established in 2019 by Zohar Ziv, former COO of Ugg owner Decker Outdoor Corp., Frank Krasovec, co-founder of Domino’s Pizza’s...
“Gen Z Is Going To Break A Lot Of Molds”: Great Bowery Investments’ Jorge Cosano On The Beauty Brands Of The Future
In 2019, investor and advisor Jorge Cosano finished a two-year stint at Nutrafol where he helped founder and friend Giorgos Tsetis raise awareness for the hair health supplement range, and raise a $35 million series...
