Finance

Direct-to-consumer green scented product brand Skylar raised $8 million in Series A funding led by FirstMark Capital, with participation from Upfront Ventures, Amplify LA, Gingerbread Capital, [...]

As wellness becomes mainstream, mindfulness and meditation apps are booming, and Calm is leading the pack, hitting unicorn status completing a $88M Series B funding round and pushing its [...]

With the amount of M&A activity and conferences connecting brands with money, an entrepreneur may think raising money and a successful exit are just the way beauty brands are built today. We are [...]

New Mountain Capital-backed Topix acquires plant-based and results-driven skincare brand ClarityRx. The brand has a 16-year track record of partnering with the most successful spas and [...]

prima, a science-driven plant wellness brand grounded in the strong therapeutic potential of hemp cannabinoids/CBD, announced a $3.275MM seed round led by Lerer Hippeau, with Greycroft and other [...]

Clark’s Botanicals is back in the hands of Francesco Clark after a whirlwind two years. The brand was acquired by Glansaol, along with Julep and Laura Geller, in December 2016 as part of [...]

Another DTC disrupter brand gets snapped up by a strategic with Proctor & Gamble’s acquisition of one of the fastest-growing feminine care brands, This Is L. The brand’s [...]

The fact that cannabis has huge growth potential as a category is old news. What is new news is that we are beginning to see transactions happening in the very nascent category. Beboe, dubbed the [...]

Katerina Schneider founded Ritual, the clean vitamin company, in 2015 after realizing her daily vitamins were full of questionable ingredients, and set out to disrupt the entire $12.8 [...]

The global beauty industry is booming, and Mordor Intelligence predicts that the Australian market will be worth more than $7 billion by the end of 2020, with annual growth of 9.31 percent since [...]