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Lily Collins Joins Silas Capital And G9 Ventures In Celebrity Hairstylist-Founded Roz’s Oversubscribed Seed Round
Before launching her clean luxury haircare brand, Roz, in 2021, Mara Roszak spent two decades as a hairstylist handling the hair of some of Hollywood’s brightest stars—Emma Stone sported a loose, polished look courtesy...
XRC Ventures Expects Wellness Deal Activity To Pick Up
After a slowdown in vitamin and supplement brand deals, XRC Ventures predicts activity will pick up over the next two to four years. As covered in the venture capital firm’s second quarter report...
Why Wittington Ventures Is Leaning Into Consumer Investments As Other VC Firms Do The Opposite
In Canada, it’s hard to escape the impact of the Weston family. From a single Toronto bakery established in 1884 by American-born entrepreneur George Weston, it spawned aptly named George Weston Ltd., a multibillion-dollar publicly traded retail colossus...
Iris Finance’s Drew Fallon On Why The Gap Between Brand Haves And Have-Nots Is Growing
Drew Fallon, CEO and co-founder of Iris Finance, an AI-powered finance data platform for consumer packaged goods brands, believes the worst of the direct-to-consumer reckoning is over. That doesn’t mean he believes the path to...
CORE Industrial Partners Acquires Majority Stake In Playful Makeup Brand Winky Lux
CORE Industrial Partners, a private equity firm backing behind-the-scenes industry technology, manufacturing and services, is getting a pop of conspicuous girliness. It’s acquired a majority stake in the maximalist makeup brand Winky Lux for an undisclosed...
Boys Are Perfuming Their Bodies And Perming Their Hair. Could They Catapult Men’s Grooming Sales?
Whether it’s smellmaxxing with pricy perfumes from Tom Ford, Maison Margiela, Creed and Jean Paul Gaultier or shaping their hair into broccoli perms, teenage boys have entered the beauty chat. The investment bank Piper Sandler estimates their...
New Owner American Exchange Group’s Plans For Indie Lee’s Future
In 2008, a then 37-year-old Indie Lee endured multiple health crises. Born Lisa Swengros and called Indie Lee, short for “Independent Lisa,” a blog she wrote, Lee was diagnosed with rheumatoid arthritis after her feet and...
