Once a brand pinned down funding, the next step was often to build out its team. That strategy isn’t completely disappearing, but it’s teetering. Today, brands raising money increasingly tout how lean they can stay. Take Stories & Ink. The tattoo care brand recently raised roughly $1.8 million, …

These days, it’s practically become an adage that the beauty industry doesn’t need another brand. Yet at a moment when artificial intelligence is accelerating speed to market across industries, new concepts can be created almost as quickly as someone can type a prompt. Against the backdrop of the AI boom, for the latest …

Oddity Tech is aptly named. It's always stood apart in the beauty industry, neither fully a technology company nor purely a product brand, but a performance marketing engine with a maximalist approach to makeup. The parent company of Il Makiage, SpoiledChild and MethodIQ has also been an outlier …