MassChallenge

Hue Beauty is a beauty tech and sampling platform empowering beauty shoppers to find makeup products for their unique skin tone. The company's technology integrates directly into beauty brands’ e-commerce websites to help their shoppers find the perfect shade matches through a combination of photo technology, beauty advisor community, and customized try-at-home shade sampling kits.

Kura Skin is a skincare matchmaking platform. We use data and our proprietary matchmaking algorithm to help our customers cut through the clutter and find what works for a fraction of the cost and none of the hassle.

Rayito de Luna is a Mexican company that develops beauty and personal care products for women and men. It is an eco-friendly 100% natural personal care brand, that practices fair trade and supports the development of local independent producers.

Renzoe Box is a hardware & software beauty platform streamlining the personal makeup collection

Manufacturer of natural beauty care products intended to provide beneficial properties of honey. The company's products are made with honey nutrients that are free of paraben and are known for their moisturizing, antibacterial, and antioxidant properties, providing customers with organically made sustainable products.

Yaupon Teahouse is an e-commerce website for skin care products, tea, bath, and body products. Their leaves were used for ceremonies, traditional medicine, and caffeinated tea. It develops teas and wellness products by pairing yaupon with other medicinal herbs and botanical plants. It also has a store to serve the local market.

Aisling Organics is a cosmetics company based in Salem, New Hampshire, specializing in the manufacture and sale of organic makeup products. Founded by Krysta Lewis, who was motivated by her personal health struggles with conventional cosmetics, Aisling offers a line of high-performance makeup that prioritizes both health and beauty. The product range includes concealer, liquid foundation, eyeshadow, lip gloss, and mascara, all formulated from crushed plants and herbs. Through its e-commerce platform, Aisling provides consumers with skin-friendly alternatives to traditional cosmetics, ensuring that individuals do not have to compromise on their health while pursuing beauty.

Manufacturer of roll-on soap bottles intended to promote hygiene habits through playful means. The company's bottles contain soap that is non-irritating, non-toxic, and free from SLS, parabens, phthalates, and any animal by-product, enabling kids to have a fun and playful way to wash their hands.

Manufacturer of all-natural feminine hygiene and care products intended to maintain female hygiene more safely. The company's products are formulated in a manner to whip up effective, yet gentle, naturally-based feminine care products that are created by women, enabling female customers to maintain their health and hygiene gently and safely.

Learning Beautiful is a design studio. Inspired by traditional Montessori education, they create new learning materials that are focused on teaching basic concepts of computation to early learners.

Kreyol Essence is an agribusiness specializing in affordable luxury beauty products derived from organic commodities sourced from Haiti. The company is known for its commitment to social impact, employing 400 local women and farmers to enhance their livelihoods while addressing environmental and agricultural challenges in the region. Positioned as a leader in sustainable beauty, Kreyol Essence promotes products that empower women by addressing personal care needs while fostering economic development in Haiti. In addition to beauty products, the company also emphasizes fashion, offering a curated selection of quality garments that allow women to express their personal style while supporting artisans globally. Through its diverse offerings, Kreyol Essence aims to create a meaningful impact in both the beauty and fashion industries.

BeautyLynk, Inc. provides an on-location and web-based beauty booking platform that delivers hair and makeup services at homes, offices, hotels, and other areas. It enables users to book in-home and on-site appointments with professional hair stylists and makeup artists. The company offers services primarily for women, as well as for men, and children of 17 years of age and up. BeautyLynk, Inc. was founded in 2015 and is headquartered in Boston, Massachusetts. It has operations in Atlanta, Boston, and Washington, D.C.

Clover Lewis Swimwear is special. Their exclusive garments have been designed to look gorgeous and feel wonderful. Originally designed for women who have undergone mastectomy and other breast cancer surgeries, the Clover Lewis collection is admired, and can be worn, by all women. Glamorous and intelligently designed, their swimwear blends a fashion forward ethos with smart features developed especially for women following breast cancer surgery, but also suitable for diverse women from all walks of life.

Beauty Van is a mobile shop concept who empowers beauty salons by providing: Product and service training, an Intelligent stock system, exclusive products and a great customer experience. They own 5 mobile stores and 76 customers. They plan to increase 40 units in 5 years and 42 customers per van.

Healthy Roots is a toy company that utilizes a doll, book and app to teach natural hair care to young girls of color. Our dolls come in different skin tones, facial features and hair textures to represent the diversity of the african diaspora. Our dolls hair can be styled in a variety of ways with the guidance of the Big Book of Hair. The big Book of Hair is an illustrated manual to natural hair care. Our app allows users to track their hair health and get curated content for their specific hair needs based on data they input. All three products culminate to the perfect teaching tool for children in a language they understand.

Mariwear was conceived and designed to address a universal issue shared by most women--how to get out of their bra but still feel dressed. This patent pending apparel was first introduced as lounge/sleepwear but has since proven itself as a new category of functional lifestyle clothing as it resonates with women for many uses. It's built-in shape and support with no wires or fasteners has transformed the way women dress to be comfortable. Braless comfort AND confidence – every woman’s dream.

Eyedoll Chatter is an application that offers scented eyeshadows, face shimmers, and lip glosses.

Samanta specializes in stylish footwear with unique comfort features. In addition to traditional sizes, Samanta offers large size women's shoes in size 11, size 12, size 13, size 14, and wide width sizes. The collection is handcrafted in Brazil and retailing in the $150-$200 range for shoes, and $250-$350 for boots. Each shoe is first carefully constructed using a special shoe mold that is a hybrid of a flat foot, and a high instep. This ingenuity provides comfort on both ends of the spectrum, and all areas in between. Great thought is put into the arch support, heel height, and leather lining of each shoe. Samanta shoes can be spotted on trendsetters like Tyra Banks, Debra Messing, Sanaa Lathan, Geena Davis, Sophia Bush, Queen Latifah, Rachel Bilson, and Rihanna. The company has also enjoyed a favorable response from the media, registering on the radars of the Oprah Magazine, Today Show, People, Marie Claire, Health, Lucky, InStyle, Essence, Latina, Black Enterprise, WSA Today, Footwear News, and Footwear Plus