Expert Dialogue

Before launching Men’d Skin Co. last August, I spent three years as an economist at the Federal Reserve Bank of New York, and five years as a data scientist and commercial risk manager at a major credit card company....

We are a week into having closed The Sunscreen Company’s offices in Ottawa due to the coronavirus guidelines issued by the Public Health Agency of Canada. The province where we are, Ontario, has declared a state of...

In the midst of COVID-19 quarantines, downtime means a ton of screen time. Although there’s great economic and societal uncertainty, misinformation and fearmongering at the moment, examples of companies that leveraged digitization as previous crises limited physical interaction...

When H Venture Partners portfolio company Kinship, a sustainable and clean skincare brand, premiered a mere five months ago, the country’s economic outlook was much different than it is today. On Thursday, the stock market suffered...

For brands at the Indie Beauty Expo, first impressions matter. From the visual allure of their exhibition spaces and the arrangement of products on display to the confidence of their retail pitches and knowledge of...

Skin, the largest organ, has company: a veritable carpet of microscopic bacteria, fungi and viruses known collectively as the microbiome. A decades-old medical discovery that’s just now filtering into the vernacular, the microbiome...