Unilever Ventures Reinvests In Straand To Increase The Scalp Care Brand’s Funding To Over $4M

Straand has raised roughly $2.6 million from the Harvey Family Office and Unilever Ventures to accelerate international growth. The capital brings the Australian microbiome-centered scalp care brand’s fundraising total to $4.6 million. It...

BGM Ventures Secures Controlling Minority Stake In Sara Happ

If Sara Happ isn’t on your lips today, it hopes to be tomorrow. The brand that put lip scrub on the beauty industry map has sold a controlling minority stake to BGM Ventures, a...

The Big Difference Between European And American Beauty Deals

Venture capital and private equity firms’ relationship with beauty is deeper in the United States than it is in Europe, while the European beauty market is characterized by more later-stage activity. In the last decade, American...

Stride Consumer Partners Takes A Minority Stake In Odele

Stride Consumer Partners has obtained a minority stake in Odele for an undisclosed amount. The private equity firm is betting that the masstige phenomenon underpinning the success of skincare brands like Naturium...

Ayurvedic Skincare Brand Sahajan Secures Funding By Showing Solid Fundamentals

After eight years in business, Sahajan has secured institutional capital. The Ayurvedic skincare brand has raised an undisclosed amount it’s classifying as pre-series A funding from Ridgeline Ventures, Wonderment Ventures, Top Knot Ventures, Celeste Burgoyne, president, Americas and...

Kearney Predicts Beauty M&A Will Increase Over The Next 2 Years

Gen Z isn’t into old brands—and beauty conglomerates into gen Z are responding. According to a new survey by management consultancy Kearney of 130 senior executives orchestrating mergers and acquisitions in the global...