Ekkio Capital invests in the future of beauty by creating Sweetch, a newly formed beauty ingredient company focusing on natural and sustainable technologies. The initial Sweetch portfolio was created with the acquisition of three market-leading natural ingredients companies: Gobiotics, Creathes, and CreaChem.WHO: Creathes has spent 14 years in the development of tailor-made solutions through natural delivery systems with a mission to bring innovation and the market together. They offer a global approach, from R&D to industrialization, from the formulation of microcapsules in finished products to the manufacture of functional cosmetic and food ingredients.  Gobiotics is an innovative Dutch company with a clear focus on the skin microbiota since 2002. The company is supported by the Dutch authorities to develop sustainable solutions to protect the skin and to make cosmetic products milder and safer through the skin microbiota. The company develops pre-, post-, and probiotics. The company also focuses on skin microbiota–friendly and natural alternatives to surfactants, conditioners, and emulsifiers. CreaChem was founded in 2012 as a spin-off of Beneo, division of the Sudzücker Group. Beneo is a world leader in the production of saccharides from chicory roots, beet roots, and rice. These natural ingredients were, next to the food and feed applications, also studied to be used in the Personal Care market.  Sweetch aims to impact the beauty industry by demonstrating the power and benefits of natural ingredients through plant-based and biotech solutions, open innovation, and advanced formulation.