IgniteXL Ventures Closes $10M Fund To Back Diverse Beauty And Wellness Founders

Beauty and wellness-focused venture capital firm IgniteXL Ventures has raised $10 million for a fund backing seed-stage disruptive brands and service providers from diverse founders often underserved by venture capital.

Here For The Tea Creator Samantha Rabinowitz, Chronicler Of Beauty Influencer Missteps, Dies

Samantha Rabinowitz, creator of the popular beauty influencer drama channel Here For The Tea, has died. The news was revealed by her older sister Lisa Greenspoon. On Rabinowitz’s Instagram account Monday, Greenspoon wrote, “She passed away...

Esker Beauty Raises $500K In Pre-Seed Funding To Help It Grow Into An Elevated Modern-Day Version Of Calgon

“My goal is to turn people into bath people,” says Shannon Davenport, founder of clean bath and body care brand Esker Beauty. She’s taken a big step toward achieving that goal by closing a $500,000 pre-seed funding...

New British Sustainable Beauty Site Counter Culture Encourages Consumers To Make #JustOneSwitch

Counter Culture doesn’t think changing consumer culture should be hard. The new British sustainable beauty e-commerce website from Wendy Martin, a 28-year veteran of Visa, and Mark Wisniewski, a serial entrepreneur and investor who previously worked in...

After Going Viral On TikTok, Delhicious Body Hit Six Figures And Has A 20,000-Person Waitlist

In an 18-second TikTok video, Delhicious Body founder Zara Saleem confesses that, when she created Migh-Tea Moisture Balm, a product with Indian black assam tea, shea butter, sweet orange oil and candelilla wax, she wasn’t trying...