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Top Knot Ventures’ Manica Blain On Why Individual Investors Are Particularly Important For Early-Stage Brands Today
After pitching 20 venture capital firms and receiving a term sheet from one, Indu, a forthcoming teenage beauty brand from Feelunique co-founders Aaron Chatterley and Richard Schiessel, ended up securing $4.8 million in funding from...
Bansk Group’s Bart Becht Makes The Business Case For ESG In CPG
Bart Becht has been in the consumer packaged goods space since 1982, a year that saw Diet Coke and Drakkar Noir hit the market. After he surprised the CPG world by ending his 17-year tenure as...
Yeouth Parent Company Kevgo Is Diversifying Its Amazon Presence And Looking To Retail
In 2014, personal care manufacturer Formulab was at a crossroads. Burnt out from producing merchandise for companies with exasperating demands, founder and cosmetic chemist Kevin Mallory was eager to take it in a new direction. “A venture capitalist...
Launching At Walmart, Clean Age Is Carving Out A Space For Gen Z In Mass-Market Personal Care
Before it launched in 2020, Clean Age, a gen Z-focused personal care brand created to be better for consumers and the planet, drew up a retail-centered distribution plan to secure a large grocer, large big-box outlet and...
Private-Label Platform Blanka Raises $2M To Ease Brands’ Ability To Bring Products To Market
In 2020, Kaylee Astle launched a short-lived sunscreen brand called Goodnight Moon, which gave her a window into the struggles of nascent beauty brands that most consumers, let alone entrepreneurs prior to their entrance into beauty,...
The Disjointed State Of Indie Beauty In 2023
It’s a topsy turvy time for indie beauty. While the pandemic instigated upheaval as retailers were forced to suspend store operations and supply chains were disrupted, it also sent customers searching for and purchasing beauty products online, leading...
Indie Beauty Check-Up: Brand Founders Give Their Reads On The Segment’s Health
According to NielsenIQ, indie beauty brands hold at least a quarter of the market share of every category in beauty. In cosmetics and nail care, the categories in which indie beauty brands hold the most share, the...
