DFN Ventures’ Post

DFN Ventures invests in the beauty sector with Crème Collective, a business services agency focused on sales and marketing. This move signals a dynamic new chapter for Crème Collective, promising unprecedented growth and innovation in the beauty and wellness space. #beautybusiness #beautyindustry #finance #marketing

Go time! Thank you Rachel Brown and Beauty Independent for sharing the news of the partnership with DFN Ventures and Crème Collective. After a year and a half since selling Stage 1 Financial, it's exciting to be back at it, building much needed sales and marketing infrastructure for the beauty and personal care industry. Especially, I'm excited for sharing my experience and knowledge in areas of data, technology and the use of AI to improve quality outcomes while increasing productivity. Definitely more to come in this space! For all my friends and colleagues in the industry, feel free to reach out, love to share what we're up too. #femalefounders #indybeauty #independentbeauty #beautyindependent #personalcare #skincare #fragrance #haircare #cosmetics #startups #entrepreneurs #beautyindustry #beautybrands #venturecapital #privateequity #cpg

Deals, deals, deals!!! Is the M&A beauty market about to explode?! Kelly Kovack from BeautyMatter provided us a great update on the deal pipeline for the independent beauty and personal care market. A quick summary of the brands coming to market with their associated reported size (revenue / EBITDA): Harry's Inc.'s ($1B 2024 revenue) Dr. Squatch ($90M 2024 EBITDA) Rare Beauty Brands - Patchology ($20 - 30M 2024 revenue) Rare Beauty ($400M+ 2024 revenue) MERIT ($100M+ 2024 revenue) Tangle Teezer ($50M 2024 revenue) MAKEUP BY MARIO  ($150 - 200M 2024 revenue) Glossier, Inc. ($275M 2024 revenue) Kosas ($75- 125M 2024 revenue) OSEA Malibu ($100M 2024 revenue) Byoma ($30 -50M 2024 revenue) IGK Hair ($115M 2024 revenue / 40% EBITDA) ONE/SIZE ($80M 2024 revenue) Other brands including Summer Fridays, Westman Atelier, Augustinus Bader, and Glow Recipe are frequently mentioned as potential acquisition targets. Clearly the size requirements for brands to be acquired has been increasing over the past few years, but excited to see a very healthy lineup of brands in the pipeline. Looking forward to seeing how the deal market shakes out in the next 12 - 18 months. #beautydeals #cpg #indybeauty #independentbeauty #femalefounders #cleanbeauty #beautybrands #beauty #startups #entrepreneur

$185m in capital?… Rumors I’m hearing is it’s over, wow! Very sad if that’s the case, hopefully it comes out of bankruptcy. #naturalproducts #venturecapital