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Wildling Co-Founder Gianna De La Torre Addresses Asian Cultural Appropriation Issues
In the past month, against the backdrop of repeated hate crimes targeting Asian Americans, there’s been a reckoning in the beauty industry over Asian cultural appropriation, specifically involving gua sha, a tool used by...
Curls Partners With Ouidad And WetBrush Owner Beauty By Imagination To Accelerate Growth
Mahisha Dellinger, who started Curls with $30,000 of her personal savings in 2002, has entered into a partnership with Beauty by Imagination to accelerate her haircare brand’s next phase of growth. Terms of the deal weren’t...
Standard Dose And Olika Backer LB Equity Expands Consumer Sector Reach With Defunkify Investment
Lucas Brand Equity has made its first foray into the fabric care sector with an investment in eco-friendly detergent specialist Defunkify. LBE led a series A round with participation...
Why We Are Paradoxx’s Yolanda Cooper Raised $4M In Five Rounds Over Three Years
Before Yolanda Cooper launched the eco-conscious hair products brand We Are Paradoxx, she realized two fundamentals about getting it off the ground: She had to secure lot of money to produce its Supernova cordless curling and straightening...
Facial Destination Heyday Raises $20M Series B Round To Fuel Franchise Expansion
Stylish skincare service provider-cum-retailer Heyday has raised $20 million in a series B round of funding. The round was led by Level 5 Capital Partners with participation from existing Heyday investors...
Eric Ryan Sells A Third Brand With Unilever’s Acquisition Of Welly
Unilever has acquired a majority stake in Welly Health PBC, the playful bandage brand from the mind of entrepreneurial consumer packaged goods maverick Eric Ryan, for an undisclosed price. The deal comes less than two years after...
