Taylor Bryant

1 week ago | beautyindependent.com | Taylor Bryant

In 2020, co-founders Celeste Lee and Lorrie King sought to raise $1.5 million in funding for Caire Beauty, the skincare brand addressing symptoms of menopause that they launched that year. They managed to pull in around $600,000 from family, friends and Entrepreneurs Roundtable Accelerator, which chipped in $100,000. Now, they’re fundraising again with the goal of securing $1.5 million, but Caire has greater traction.

2 weeks ago | theaugustapress.com | Taylor Bryant

1970's sign on red /yellow gas pump showing it is leaded gas. White sign with black lettering secured with silver screws.For use as a motor fuel only. Contains Lead ( tetraethyl )Leaded Fuel. Photo courtesy of iStock. As automotive tech moves forward, engineers need to keep in mind, sometimes even the best laid plans come with unintended consequences.

2 weeks ago | beautyindependent.com | Taylor Bryant

While awareness of the importance of sunscreen usage for protecting against ultraviolet rays has become widespread, regular remains elusive. London-based brand Beame aims to change that. “We know gen Z wears sunscreen, but 70% of the U.K. population actually don’t reapply it,” says founder Eniye Okah. “No one was doing anything about this fact, even though that’s how sunscreen works.”Launched in March this year, Beame is out to make sunscreen application easy and fun for gen Z consumers.

3 weeks ago | beautyindependent.com | Taylor Bryant

Sephora likes to get “in the kitchen” with brands, guiding their products, messages, prices and design grounded in its understanding of customers, but rarely does the public catch a glimpse of that process—at least until now.

3 weeks ago | beautyindependent.com | Taylor Bryant

Six years after failing to secure a “Shark Tank” deal for app and sleep tape seller Koko Face Yoga, founder Koko Hayashi was back on the ABC pitch contest television program Friday with another business, Mirai Clinical, but achieved the same outcome. The five small-screen investor judges or “sharks”—Mark Cuban, Kevin O’Leary, Barbara Corcoran, Lori Greiner and Robert Herjavec—rebuffed the brand’s ask of $500,000 in exchange for 5% equity at a $10 million valuation.