Investors in Beauty

Founded in 2009, East Ventures is a Tokyo-headquartered investment firm with an office in Singapore and Indonesia, targeting early-stage technology companies. EV Growth is a joint venture between East Ventures, SMDV and YJ Capital that focuses on providing growth capital to startups in Indonesia and the rest of Southeast Asia with an industry agnostic focus. The joint venture was started in March 2018.

Based in Taipei, AppWorks is the largest startup accelerator in Greater Southeast Asia. AppWorks launched its Taipei-based accelerator program in 2010 to help Greater Southeast Asian Internet startups optimize their products and business strategies. Every six months, AppWorks Accelerator recruits 30-40 promising startups working on AI, blockchain, and other rapidly growing verticals. With 328 startups and 925 founders in its alumni network to date, the AppWorks Ecosystem is the largest of its kind in Asia. All AppWorks startups collectively generate US$ 2.5B in annual revenues, provide 9,586 jobs and are valued at US$ 3.6B. AppWorks also manages a total of US$61 million in VC funds, typically investing in seed to Series C companies.

Halogen Ventures is an LA based fund. Halogen Ventures believes in hands-on attention and plug each of our portfolio companies into a strategic network of advisors, investors, and accelerators in the greater venture community. With a focus on the consumer, Halogen Ventures also adds value in the entertainment, marketing, and PR space to further the footprint of its brands.

Founded in 1999, Enhanced Capital Partners is a national investment firm with over $400 million under management specializing in investments in small and mid-size companies. Enhanced Capital provides a range of investment options to promote the growth and expansion of businesses. Our flexibility and practical investment approach can make the difference in maximizing the growth potential for a company poised for rapid growth.

JamJar Investments is a venture capital firm that invest in high growth consumer brand businesses in both digital and non-tech. Its combination of operational, commercial and brand experience was honed over 14 years taking innocent from scratch to sale to Coca Cola for north of half a billion £. That journey means the company understand the journey of entrepreneurs, the highs the lows, the challenges and some of the solutions. JamJar is the consumer Venture Capital fund run by the innocent drinks founders.

Unilever Ventures is the venture capital and private equity arm of Unilever. They invest in young, promising companies, accelerating growth by providing access to Unilever’s global ecosystem, assets and expertise. They are looking for tomorrow’s world-beaters in Personal Care and Digital. They provide access to a company with unrivalled global reach. On any given day, two billion people use Unilever products to look good, feel good and get more out of life. With more than 400 brands focused on health and wellbeing, no company touches so many people’s lives in so many different ways. Unilever Ventures works closely with The Unilever Foundry to provide technology innovators with access to paid pilot projects, mentorship and growth financing.

eEquity invests in online related business models, primarily in the Nordics with the ambition to build large market leaders. Since They have a comprehensive portfolio of companies within the same business fields the entrepreneurs will significantly benefit from being plugged into Their network and from exchanging experience and expertise between the portfolio companies. They look for passionate entrepreneurs with a scalable and differentiated business model that adresses a substantial market. They are opportunistic in their investment process.

IMM Investment Corp. is a private equity and venture capital firm specializing in mezzanine investments. It focuses on mergers and acquisitions, venture capital investing, corporate restructuring, private equity investing, industry consolidation, management buyouts, spin-offs, recapitalizations, and cross-border investments. Within mergers and acquisitions, the firm invests in strategic mergers, growth through acquisitions, going public via a reverse merger, and strategic divestures. For recapitalizations, it targets family owned enterprise considering whole or partial exit and balance sheet restructuring. The firm also co-invests in buyout transactions. For its growth stage investments, it allocates 20 percent to startups, 40 percent to expansion, and 40 percent to mezzanine. The firm targets companies operating in information technology infrastructure, wireless communications entertainment and contents, franchising, cement, software, electricity, food and beverage, machinery, game software, chemical, paper manufacture, and automobile parts industries. For industries concentration, it sets 40 percent to information technology infrastructure focusing on security, application service provider, and e-commerce solutions; 30 percent to contents, focusing on education, game, and animation; and 30 percent to digital hardware focusing on network and communications equipment, semiconductor, parts and others. The firm also invests in infrastructure, environment, manufacturing, enzyme, biotechnology, and healthcare sectors. It also makes secondary investments. The firm primarily invests in South Korean medium-sized companies located in Seoul, Gyeonggi, Daegu, Gyeongsangbuk-do, and Chungcheongbuk-do. It prefers to take an active role in management. IMM Investment Corp. was founded in July 1999 and is based in Seoul, South Korea.

Tiger Global Management, LLC is an investment firm that deploys capital globally. The firm’s fundamentally oriented investments focus primarily on the global Internet, technology, telecom, media consumer and industrial sectors. The private equity strategy has a ten-year investment horizon and targets growth-oriented private companies. The public equity efforts emphasize deep due diligence on individual companies and long-term secular themes. As a Firm, Tiger Global values integrity, intellectual honesty, continuous improvement, process over outcome, teamwork, the drive to be world class, and long-term thinking. Tiger Global Management, LLC was founded in 2001 and is based in New York with affiliate offices in Hong Kong, Singapore, Bangalore and Melbourne.

Brand Foundry Ventures is a consumer only venture capital firm based in New York. The firm seeks to invest in e-commerce, mobile commerce, consumer products, and consumer devices.