Investors
“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...
Great Expectations For Beauty Investments, Great Expectations for BeautyX Capital Summit
The headlines say it all—the emerging beauty market is full of great expectations. In the space of a few months, news that five-year-old startup Glossier has surpassed the $1 billion mark (“Glossier Now Valued At More Than...
Genuine Health Acquires Growing Natural Body Care Brand Basd
Supplements company Genuine Health has acquired plant-driven body care brand Basd for an undisclosed sum. The deal combines two rising forces on the Canadian natural products scene. It also marks the first acquisition for Genuine Health,...
Better-For-You DTC Skincare Brand BioClarity Draws $13M To Fuel Product Development And Marketing
BioClarity, which packs its products with the green chlorophyll ingredient Floralux, has pulled in another kind of green. The plant-based DTC skincare specialist is $13 million richer with the close of a funding round led by
