Daintree Capital Wants Brand Founders To Explore Alternatives To Venture Capital Funding
Venture capital may grab headlines, but it’s not how most businesses, especially women- and BIPOC-led businesses, are financed. And many businesses aren’t suited to VC funding. Looking at the available funding for startups, Alisha Griffey spotted an opportunity...
Aesthetician And Influencer Liz Kennedy Heads To QVC With Her Brand Beauty Magnet’s 5-In-1 Skincare Tool
When Liz Kennedy lived in New York City five years ago, she kept losing beauty tools in her small apartment. She figures she bought hundreds of replacements for tweezers that had seemingly vanished into its nether regions. “My...
Indie Brands Are Making Sexual Wellness More Inclusive For LGBTQIA+ Consumers
Before founding Cake, a sexual wellness brand selling lubricants, condoms and toys, Mitch Orkis had trouble buying lube as a gay man using it for anal sex....
ClearForMe And Doers Of London Collaborate On QR Codes That Take Consumers Inside INCI Lists
Many beauty consumers today read and try to interpret INCI lists. Now, ClearForMe and Doers of London are giving them insight into what goes into those lists. The digital platform with a database of over 1.6 million ingredients...
CEO Sharon Leite On The Vitamin Shoppe’s Reimagined Beauty Shopping Experience, The Power Of TikTok Trends And Indie Brand Incubation
If the first thing that comes to mind when you think of The Vitamin Shoppe is tubs of muscle-building powders for gym bros to guzzle for bulking up, think again. A visitor to...
