Investors

DTC Electric Toothbrush Brand Brüush Closes Oversubscribed $6.5M Series A Round
Investors continue to sink their teeth into the direct-to-consumer electric toothbrush segment. Electric toothbrush specialist Brüush has closed an oversubscribed $6.5 million series A funding round, an amount that’s $2 million above its...

Femtech Startup Joylux Adds Kathy Fields As Investor And Board Member, Readies For Expansion
“We are the vagina queens,” declares Colette Courtion, CEO and founder of Joylux. If the market hasn’t yet coronated the femtech firm atop the women’s intimate care territory, it might move in that direction now that Joylux...

Milk Makeup Backer Main Post Partners Execs On The Power Of Sephora And Breakout Hero Products
Main Post Partners has big aims for its beauty business and a big pocketbook to accomplish them. The San Francisco-based private equity firm operates two investment funds in excess of $1.1 billion combined. It has...

The Red Tree And SFC Capital Launch The Beauty Accelerator For British Emerging Beauty Brands
Beauty brand consultancy The Red Tree has partnered with seed-stage consumer goods investor SFC Capital to launch The Beauty Accelerator. The first of its kind in the United Kingdom, the new accelerator focused on British emerging...

Present Life, A New Beauty And Wellness Company Led By Ex-Coty Execs, Launches Loum Beauty Of Calm To Combat The Effects Of Stress
There’s a new brand incubator and acquirer on the beauty and wellness scene. Present Life is revealing its presence today timed with the launch of its second in-house brand, stress effects buster Loum Beauty of Calm....

True Beauty Ventures Backs Aquis, A Brand Known For Hair Towels That’s Taking A Turn Into Treatments
For its first investment, True Beauty Ventures has ventured into haircare by backing Aquis, which is expanding beyond the moisture-wicking towels and turbans that put it on the beauty industry map. The young fund from Rich Gersten...