Key Takeaways:
- L’Oréal selected 13 companies from eight countries for L’AcceleratOR’s second cohort.
- The new cohort expands into industrial processes and water technology.
- Selected technologies will enter six-to-nine-month plots with potential to scale globally.
L’Oréal is expanding its search for scalable sustainable technologies, selecting 13 companies from eight countries for the second cohort of its €100 million ($114.7 million) L’AcceleratOR program.
The initiative aims to identify, pilot, and potentially scale technologies that address the beauty industry’s climate, circularity, and nature challenges. The latest cohort broadens the program's geographical reach and technological scope by selecting L’Oréal’s first water-focused technologies alongside solutions spanning packaging, ingredients, recycling, manufacturing, and data intelligence.
L’Oréal Group generated €44.05 billion ($50.5 billion) in sales in 2025 and operates 22 research centers across seven regional hubs, supported by more than 4,000 scientists. Rather than limiting the program to beauty-specific startups, the group is looking across industries for technologies it could apply to its global operations. The group selected four companies for next-generation packaging and materials. UK-based Arda Biomaterials is developing a plant-based alternative to leather for premium materials, while Italy’s Bormioli Luigi is working on ultralight, resistant glass packaging. French company Auressens is developing recyclable, metal-free reflective pigments, and US-based Newlight Technologies converts methane into packaging materials.
On the formulation side, German biotechnology company...
