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The Boston bank that only speaks fluent brand
A boutique bank that refuses to do anything but consumer deals just got a lot bigger. Here is how a Boston firm turned brand obsession into a specialty M&A practice - and why Origin Merchant Partners bought in.
The Venture Fund Shopping the Aisles Before Everyone Else
Springdale Ventures bets that the next breakout company may look less like software and more like a jar, pouch or bottle. Its edge is knowing what happens after a product leaves the pitch deck and meets a shelf.
The Beauty Lab That Builds Brands, Then Lets Them Go
Ben Bennett's West Hollywood accelerator spots gaps on the shelf, hands them to founders with real equity, and points each new brand toward an exit - Naturium sold to e.l.f. Beauty for $355 million.
The store that sells hair color to the person doing your hair - and to you
One of America's largest beauty-supply chains sells the same professional hair color to salon pros and to the customers coloring their own roots at home. Here is how a 1964 New Orleans shop became a two-sided, 5,000-store beauty distributor.
Markwins Beauty Brands
The name is quiet. The products are everywhere. Markwins built a global beauty portfolio by treating affordable makeup as an operating-system problem - brands up front, factories and distribution behind them.
Try Your Best (TYB)
Try Your Best (TYB) is a community rewards platform that lets consumer brands turn their most obsessed fans into a measurable, on-chain loyalty layer. Founded by Outdoor Voices creator Ty Haney in 2021, TYB rewards shoppers for participation - reviews, referrals, user-generated content, challenges and purchases - with collectibles, brand coins and access to exclusive drops. Around 200 brands including Glossier, Rare Beauty, Poppi, Urban Outfitters and Saie use TYB to reach roughly two million users, mostly Gen Z women, with the company reporting higher purchase frequency and lifetime value for participating customers.
MasonHub
MasonHub is a Los Angeles-based third-party logistics (3PL) and order-fulfillment company built for fast-growing beauty, fashion, and wellness brands. Founded in 2018 by retail-operations veteran Donny Salazar, it pairs its own order-management and warehouse-management software with hands-on fulfillment services out of bicoastal distribution centers, aiming to give digital-first brands the shipping speed, accuracy, and real-time supply-chain visibility usually reserved for retail giants.