Beauty Contract Manufacturer M&A Lull Expected To Be Short Term

As the supply chain was unkinking after the shock of the pandemic, beauty companies looked to onshore production and emerging beauty brands with outsourced production grabbed market share, mergers and acquisitions in the beauty contract manufacturing sector were...

Sofie Pavitt Face Receives Seed Funding From True Beauty Ventures

Sofie Pavitt, the aesthetician-turned-brand founder who Nylon calls “the cool girl’s acne whisperer,” has a cool new investor. True Beauty Ventures, the beauty and wellness venture capital firm, has committed an...

Coefficient Capital’s Anna Whiteman On The Biggest Trends Transforming Beauty And Wellness

Coefficient Capital, the consumer-focused venture capital firm, prides itself on investing in transformational consumer shifts, and partner Anna Whiteman is one of its chief identifiers of such shifts. Like most investors, she digs into the numbers...

Hair Growth Brand Scandinavian Biolabs Secures Nearly $4.5M In Series A Funding To Accelerate Growth

Scandinavian Biolabs has closed a nearly $4.5 million series A funding round to grow the reach of its hair growth products in European countries and the United States. The Copenhagen-based brand’s round was led by Auréa, the...

Founder Cassandra Grey Partners With Private Equity Investor To Buy Violet Grey Back From Farfetch

Violet Grey is back in the hands of founder Cassandra Grey. Earlier in the summer, she bought the beauty e-tail and content destination with private equity investor Sherif Guirgis, currently...

DFN Ventures Invests In Crème Collective To Grow Outsourced Infrastructure For Beauty Brands

DFN Ventures has invested in Crème Collective, and its founder Jeremy Triefenbach has become CFO of the sales and marketing agency that’s worked with many of the beauty industry’s most-coveted and cutting-edge brands.