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With $10M In New Funding, Mad Rabbit Is Primed To Spearhead Tattoo Aftercare At Big-Box Retail
Target’s average shopper is a millennial mom and, out of all young Americans, according to millennial and gen Z insights firm YPulse, millennial parents are the most likely to have tattoos. So, it’s a...
Youthforia Secures Seed Funding From True Beauty Ventures And Willow Growth Partners
Fiona Co Chan, founder and CEO of Youthforia, a brand known for makeup formulated to be good enough to sleep in, can sleep easier now. Youthforia has closed a seed funding round led by
The Scalp Microbiome Isn’t A Well-Studied Area. K18 And HelloBiome Are Partnering To Change That.
K18 and HelloBiome have struck a multiyear partnership to unlock secrets of the scalp microbiome with the goal of creating scalp and haircare products and services effective for it. The partnership demonstrates...
In The Post-iOS 14 Update Era, What Acquisition Strategies Work For Brands Just Getting Off The Ground?
Last year, Cristina Bagozzi, formerly VP and head of the owned brand business at clean beauty retailer Follain, launched fragrance brand Emmotiv with $25,000 from her personal savings. In its first couple of months, outreach to her...
What Should Emerging Brands Draw From L’Oréal’s $2.5B Deal For Aesop?
The big news in the beauty industry this week didn’t happen in New York. Instead, it was the announcement that French beauty conglomerate L’Oréal has agreed to buy Australian-born Aesop from Brazilian company Natura & Co for...
Active Partners’ Jason Mahendran On Why Expertise, Masstige Skincare And Metrics Showing Brand Love Are Critical Today
Partner Jason Mahendran has been integral in pointing London-based consumer-focused investment firm Active Partners’ capital compass toward the beauty industry. In 2021, it backed skincare brand Facetheory to the tune of 10 million pounds. Last year, it ventured...
At New Brand Lixr, Bite Beauty Founder Susanne Langmuir Sets Out To Solve Foundation Customization
“I am out to do for complexion what I did for lips,” says Susanne Langmuir, a serial beauty entrepreneur whose latest venture is Lixr, a business striving to match people with tinted foundation serums tailored...
