
NIQ And Kline: 25 Indie Beauty Brands Ripe For Acquisition
Market research firms Kline and NIQ have identified 25 indie beauty brands ripe for acquisition, including Rare Beauty, Danessa Myricks Beauty, Jones Road, OSEA, Good Molecules, Dr. Squatch, Dossier...

Unilever Ventures Reinvests In Straand To Increase The Scalp Care Brand’s Funding To Over $4M
Straand has raised roughly $2.6 million from the Harvey Family Office and Unilever Ventures to accelerate international growth. The capital brings the Australian microbiome-centered scalp care brand’s fundraising total to $4.6 million. It...

“Bargain Basement”: The Beauty Industry Reacts To THG’s Biossance Acquisition
Biossance, the brand that raised awareness of Amyris’s lab-brewed squalane, has found a new home. THG Beauty, also known as The Hut Group, snapped up the brand for $20 million in...

Spate: 15 Indie Beauty Brands Leading In Sustained Search Volume Growth
It’s great to suddenly go viral on TikTok, but it’s even better to have sustained momentum over time. To pinpoint drivers of prolonged growth in consumer awareness, we turned to machine intelligence beauty platform Spate to identify...

BGM Ventures Secures Controlling Minority Stake In Sara Happ
If Sara Happ isn’t on your lips today, it hopes to be tomorrow. The brand that put lip scrub on the beauty industry map has sold a controlling minority stake to BGM Ventures, a...