The Lip Bar Launches Grant Program Bawse Ventures
The Lip Bar is launching grant program Bawse Ventures to support the next generation of BIPOC entrepreneurs. BIPOC founders with brands across consumer packaged goods categories can apply to receive grants of up to $25,000 in funding...
Where Beauty Brand Founders Think DEI Initiatives Stand Today In The Wake Of The Lawsuit Against Fearless Fund
Fearless Fund, the Black women-owned venture capital firm backing early-stage businesses owned by women of...
Luxury Skincare Brand N8iV Beauty Speaks To The Wealth Of The Native American Experience
Ruth-Ann Thorn is the first to admit N8iV Beauty is about image. The founder of Payómkawichum descent has an unwavering vision for the brand: She foresees it in billboards on Los Angeles’s Sunset Boulevard represented...
All The Ways Emerging Beauty Brands Fund Their Businesses
Among direct-to-consumer brands, there’s a lot of talk of technology stacks or all the different tools used to run e-commerce and digital consumer interactions, but financial stacks or all the different mechanisms brands depend on to fund their...
Nicotine Replacement Therapy Brand Jones Gets Underway With $1.1M From Warby Parker Founders’ VC Firm And Others
Fueled by $1.1 million in pre-seed funding, Jones has launched to ease people off of vaping, a challenge its creators know full well. Striving to put a contemporary spin on the nicotine replacement...
