Cosmetics and beauty startups across skincare, color cosmetics, haircare, fragrance, and prestige beauty — including DTC brands, ingredient suppliers, and beauty-tech platforms.
Explore 279 recently funded cosmetics companies with verified founder contact information and fundraising data.
CARE utilizes biotechnology to develop skincare and makeup products without intoxicating the skin or polluting the planet.
Superior Nano creates skin health serums that contains multiple anti-defying ingredients.
Solar Biotech provides comprehensive sustainable and scalable biomanufacturing solutions.
Love Ocean develops ocean-friendly bathroom products in sustainable packaging.
Fesarius Therapeutics is to develop engineered skin replacement products.
LeNOSE is a retail company that offers fragrances and perfumes.
Levur is a Biotechnology Research oriented firm that manufactures cosmetic oil substitutes for their customers.
We Are Emma is a provider of salon amenities and products meant to promote healthy hair.
Chi Botanic is a cellular agriculture company that provides a synthetic biology pipeline to leverage the power of the plant cell.
Mother Science is a revolutionary biotech beauty brand company develops next-generation skincare treatments.
Siki is a brand product manufacturing company that offers healthy food, cosmetics, and lifestyle products.
VEGAMOUR is a digitally native, vegan beauty company that focuses on hair wellness.
Change Bio provides an end-to-end manufacturing solution for AI-designed and discovered recombinant proteins
10Beauty builds a definitive intelligent beauty company with a full manicure machine.
FMCG conglomerate that provides market-ready solutions for customers by listening to their needs and designing products
Alternative Plants is a plant based healthcare company that offers active ingredients from rare medicinal plants.
Virtue Labs is a haircare brand that offers Alpha Keratin 60ku, a human protein born from regenerative medicine.
Pureskin is a beauty retail company that offers cosmetic and skincare products.
Patina is a biotechnology company described as a “molecular design studio” focused on the intersection of scent, flavor.
Novëm is a French skincare brand specializing in natural cosmetics made primarily from the walnut of Grenoble (Noix de Grenoble AOP).
Tilkal is a blockchain-based supply chain traceability and trust platform for Industry 4.0
Flavus.com is a beauty-focused e-commerce platform offering personal care and cosmetics products.
Skin Pharm is a cosmetic dermatology practice that provides skincare treatment.
York Street Brands, formed by the merger of Boost Lab and tbh Skincare specializes in serums that target a range of skin concerns.
VIOLETTE_FR is a beauty brand that offers a range of skin care products with online services.
The cosmetics sector is an active area of startup innovation and venture capital investment. Companies in this space are developing new technologies, platforms, and services that address evolving market needs and create new business opportunities.
Cosmetics companies raise capital across various funding stages, from early seed rounds to late-stage growth financing. Investor interest in this sector is driven by the size of the addressable market, the pace of technology adoption, and the potential for scalable business models.
The cosmetics sector is expected to continue evolving as technology advances, market dynamics shift, and new opportunities emerge. Companies that demonstrate strong product-market fit, efficient growth, and clear competitive advantages are well-positioned to attract continued investment.
Here is how funding is distributed among the 279 cosmetics companies tracked in the VCBacked database.
Companies in the cosmetics sector often overlap with or complement businesses in adjacent industries. Exploring related verticals can help you discover additional companies, identify partnership opportunities, and understand the broader competitive landscape.
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