Investors
ZitSticka Secures $5M In Series A Funding And Readies For Ulta Beauty Launch
ZitSticka aims to be a breakout star of the breakout segment—and it’s just been given fuel to help it get there with a $5 million series A funding round led by venture capital firm BFG Partners....
Buzzy Bee Product Brand Beekeeper’s Naturals Raises $3.5M From Sonoma Brands
If Beekeeper’s Naturals wasn’t buzzing before, it is now. The bee product wellness brand has drawn $3.5 million in series A funding from Sonoma Brands, a venture capital and private equity firm specializing in...
Angel Investment Community Fempire x SoGal Is On A Mission To Educate And Inspire Budding Female Investors
In the beauty industry, there’s an experience shared by many female founders that has nothing to do with retail realities or formulation foibles. “They’ll go out and pitch to 50, 100, 300 investors and get noes...
“Quality Of Revenue Matters”: Tengram Capital Partners’ Richard Gersten On His Investment Strategies And The Mistakes Young Beauty Brands Make
In the beauty industry, investors don’t usually have the name recognition of successful entrepreneurs and long-tenured executives. Richard Gersten is an exception. Among the beauty business cognoscenti, the Tengram Capital Partners partner is a well-known entity—and, for...
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...
NakedPoppy Scores $4M For Clean Beauty Curation And AI-Driven Product Recommendations
Clean indie beauty brands have a new platform to help them get into consumers’ hands. Created by Jaleh Bisharat and Kimberly Shenk, NakedPoppy is a curated website for busy women without the time or inclination to stroll...
