Full Disclosure Archives | Beauty Independent The eyes, ears and voice of beauty entrepreneurs. Daily industry news, industry knowledge, trend reports and data-driven content. Here for the Fierce Mon, 27 Nov 2023 13:48:32 +0000 en-US hourly 1 135095403 Longtime Investment Banker Andrew Shore On What Investors Want From Emerging Brands And The State Of Beauty M&A https://www.beautyindependent.com/investment-banker-andrew-shore-investors-emerging-brands-state-beauty-ma/ https://www.beautyindependent.com/investment-banker-andrew-shore-investors-emerging-brands-state-beauty-ma/#disqus_thread Mon, 25 Sep 2023 19:18:01 +0000 https://www.beautyindependent.com/?p=126004 After 41 years on Wall Street, including 37 years orchestrating beauty and personal care deals, Andrew Shore has retired from investment banking. For the last 15 years, he’s been managing director at Moelis & Co., where he led the consumer products practice that handled transactions involving brands such as Huda Beauty, Drunk

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]]> https://www.beautyindependent.com/investment-banker-andrew-shore-investors-emerging-brands-state-beauty-ma/feed/ 0 126004 True Beauty Ventures And View From 32 On Why Brands Have To Be Much More Than Retail Ready To Enter Chains Today https://www.beautyindependent.com/true-beauty-ventures-view-from-32/ https://www.beautyindependent.com/true-beauty-ventures-view-from-32/#disqus_thread Wed, 13 Sep 2023 22:28:41 +0000 https://www.beautyindependent.com/?p=125297 While their domains are undoubtedly distinct, beauty retailers and beauty investors are becoming much more alike. “We’re making bets on which brands might be successful scaling,” says Rich Gersten, co-founder and managing partner of True Beauty Ventures, an early-stage beauty and wellness investment firm with brands such as Youthforia, Crown Affair, K18, BeautyStat,

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]]> https://www.beautyindependent.com/true-beauty-ventures-view-from-32/feed/ 0 125297 Top Knot Ventures’ Manica Blain On Why Individual Investors Are Particularly Important For Early-Stage Brands Today https://www.beautyindependent.com/top-knot-ventures-manica-blain-individual-investors-important-early-stage-brands-today/ https://www.beautyindependent.com/top-knot-ventures-manica-blain-individual-investors-important-early-stage-brands-today/#disqus_thread Thu, 31 Aug 2023 04:01:33 +0000 https://www.beautyindependent.com/?p=124492 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 66 people, including prominent names in beauty and retail. In a recent interview with Beauty

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]]> https://www.beautyindependent.com/top-knot-ventures-manica-blain-individual-investors-important-early-stage-brands-today/feed/ 0 124492 Bansk Group’s Bart Becht Makes The Business Case For ESG In CPG https://www.beautyindependent.com/bansk-group-bart-becht-makes-the-case-esg-cpg/ https://www.beautyindependent.com/bansk-group-bart-becht-makes-the-case-esg-cpg/#disqus_thread Wed, 30 Aug 2023 03:26:59 +0000 https://www.beautyindependent.com/?p=124326 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 CEO of Reckitt Benckiser in 2011, reporter Graeme Wearden wrote in The Guardian that Becht

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]]> https://www.beautyindependent.com/bansk-group-bart-becht-makes-the-case-esg-cpg/feed/ 0 124326 SKU’s Michelle Breyer Takes Stock Of Accelerator Programs And What CPG Brands Should Be Focused On Right Now https://www.beautyindependent.com/sku-michelle-breyer-accelerator-programs-cpg-brands/ https://www.beautyindependent.com/sku-michelle-breyer-accelerator-programs-cpg-brands/#disqus_thread Tue, 01 Aug 2023 23:44:27 +0000 https://www.beautyindependent.com/?p=121967 At textured hair digital destination NaturallyCurly, co-founder Michelle Breyer took a problem she was passionate about—that people with curly hair weren’t celebrated and couldn’t find products right for them—and addressed it by building a lucrative business. At SKU, an accelerator focused on early-stage consumer packaged goods brands, she’s helping the next generation

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]]> https://www.beautyindependent.com/sku-michelle-breyer-accelerator-programs-cpg-brands/feed/ 0 121967 With $15M In New Funding, Intrinsic Evolves Into Women’s Health-Centric CPG Platform https://www.beautyindependent.com/15m-new-funding-intrinsic-evolves-womens-health-centric-cpg-platform/ https://www.beautyindependent.com/15m-new-funding-intrinsic-evolves-womens-health-centric-cpg-platform/#disqus_thread Fri, 26 May 2023 03:21:20 +0000 https://www.beautyindependent.com/?p=117376 Investors are catching on to the massive women’s health and wellness opportunity, especially as technology increasingly allows healthcare to happen outside of doctor’s offices and staid over-the-counter drug offerings expand to include more modern, better-for-you products.

Intrinsic, which has LaVie, Mommy Knows Best and PumpStrap in its

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