Eight Key Insights From The Beauty Investors At BeautyX Capital Summit

If money were easy, the more than 120 attendees at the two-day entrepreneurial education conference BeautyX Capital Summit last week in New York would have walked away with big checks from the seed investors to strategic buyers...

What’s Next For Private Equity Firm NextWorld Evergreen And Its Retail Wunderkind Credo?

NextWorld Evergreen has quietly become a power player in the better-for-you consumer goods universe. The private equity firm backs clean beauty chain Credo and plant-based color cosmetics brand W3ll People. Like the beauty concepts it’s invested in,...

Sundial Brands CEO Richelieu Dennis On What Beauty Entrepreneurs Should And Shouldn’t Do When Seeking Capital

Richelieu Dennis hasn’t slowed down since selling Sundial Brands, the company he launched with his mother Mary and college roommate Nyema Tubman in 1991, to Unilever last year. In addition to staying atop Sundial Brands as CEO...

Women Of Color Offer Perspectives On Fundraising In The Beauty Industry At BeautyX Capital Summit

If you received an email likening a brand to Glossier for women of color, would you click on it? KJ Miller, co-founder of Mented, figured the eye-catching message would pique interest, and it was one of the...

What Are The Secrets To Successful Fundraising? Investors Provided Clues At BeautyX Capital Summit

The beauty industry isn’t exempt from the power of money. In fact, in an indie beauty landscape littered with new brands, proper funding can set apart the successful from the merely surviving, but tips for how to secure...

Strategic Angel Tina Bou-Saba Talks Early Stage Investment In The Beauty Space

With multi-million dollar cash infusions continuing to roll in at a fevered pace, beauty remains an exciting place to be a brand founder. For beauty bosses, this excitement comes with a myriad of questions. Beauty neophytes...