Dame And Hey Jane Backer Amboy Street Ventures Closes $20M Fund
Amboy Street Ventures has closed a $20 million fund to back women’s health and sexual wellness startups. Led by founding partner Carli Sapir, who previously worked in private equity and is also...
Mario Badescu’s Distribution Epitomizes The Blurred Lines Between Prestige And Mass Beauty Retail
In 1998, Mario Badescu launched at the Henri Bendel store on Fifth Avenue in New York to make a statement that it was ready to build its wholesale business. “They were trendsetters, and all of...
Can Beauty Specialty Chains Command More Luxury Market Share?
As the boundaries between mass and prestige continue to blur, upscale beauty brands burned by the deterioration of department stores and beauty chains that have made forays into the mass market are flexing their luxury bona...
How Caliray Founder Wende Zomnir Is Reinterpreting Urban Decay Classics For Today’s Clean Beauty Shoppers
Today, Caliray, the clean and eco-conscious beauty brand from Urban Decay founding partner Wende Zomnir and Jenna Dover, who previously worked in global business and growth strategy at Urban Decay and Frost & Sullivan, is...
The Indie Beauty And Wellness Fallout From Silicon Valley Bank’s Collapse
The Flex Company founder Lauren Schulte Wang was manning her brand’s booth at the consumer packaged goods trade show Expo West on Thursday afternoon when she began receiving worrisome texts from fellow founders about Silicon...
