{"id":20639,"date":"2017-01-24T14:25:17","date_gmt":"2017-01-24T14:25:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.dutyfreehunter.com\/blog\/?p=20639"},"modified":"2017-01-24T14:25:17","modified_gmt":"2017-01-24T14:25:17","slug":"loreal-invests-beauty-tech-start-ups-digital-makeover","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.dutyfreehunter.com\/blog\/loreal-invests-beauty-tech-start-ups-digital-makeover\/","title":{"rendered":"L\u2019Or\u00e9al invests in \u2018beauty tech\u2019 start-ups for digital makeover"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>French cosmetics giant L&#8217;Oreal has\u00a0chosen to invest in five tech start-up firms in the beauty products sector along with partner Founders Factory, as L&#8217;Oreal steps up its ventures in this area.<!--more--><\/p>\n<p>L\u2019Or\u00e9al announced in May a strategic investment in Founders Factory, a London-based leading global digital accelerator and incubator, co-founded by Brent Hoberman and Henry Lane Fox. As part of their partnership, L\u2019Or\u00e9al and Founders Factory will each year support the growth of five high potential early stage startups and co-create two new businesses as part of a yearly incubator programme.<\/p>\n<p>L\u2019Or\u00e9al and Founders Factory received 180 applications from talented and motivated beauty entrepreneurs around the world (Germany, Lithuania, Slovenia, United Kingdom, United States, among others). After an exciting pitching session held at L\u2019Or\u00e9al headquarters, 5 startups were selected for a six month accelerator programme:<\/p>\n<p>\u2022 <strong>InsitU: <\/strong>Personalised, natural skincare available online, developed by scientific experts and available through an online store. Founded by Dr Maria Salichou, a scientist of Greek origin, who holds a nuclear medicine PhD from the University of Oxford and has over 10 years of scientific experience in BioTech and healthcare.<br \/>\n<iframe src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/0jjWRt7l6BM?rel=0&amp;enablejsapi=1\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" frameborder=\"0\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p><strong>\u2022 Preemadonna: <\/strong>Created by Pree Walia from the United States, Preemadonna\u2019s Nailbot device and app enable users to design and print art onto their nails, using their phone, in a matter of seconds. 30,000 people have already signed up to try the Nailbot.<\/p>\n<p><iframe src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/ZdLV1e5qda0?rel=0&amp;enablejsapi=1\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" frameborder=\"0\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p><strong>\u2022 Tailify: <\/strong>London based Tailify founded by Fredrik Segerby from Sweden and Didrik Svendsen from Norway, connects big brands to social media influencers to create campaigns, whilst enabling those influencers to track, distribute and monetise their content.<br \/>\n<iframe src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/FlnOK8reBqw?rel=0&amp;enablejsapi=1\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" frameborder=\"0\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p><strong>\u2022 Veleza: <\/strong>Founded by Lithuanian entrepreneur Martynas Nikolajevas, Veleza is an app-based, supportive community of beauty lovers that helps users discover products that best match their needs providing inspiration, advice and product reviews in real time.<\/p>\n<p><iframe src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/iEQBkl3YQx4?rel=0&amp;enablejsapi=1\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" frameborder=\"0\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p><strong>\u2022 Cosmose:<\/strong> Founded by Polish entrepreneur Miron Mironiuk, Cosmose uses sophisticated location technology that allows retailers to target offline customers via online channels. \u00a0Already a success in Asia, Cosmose is based in Shanghai and Hong Kong.<br \/>\n<iframe src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/eJis212Xhks?rel=0&amp;enablejsapi=1\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" frameborder=\"0\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>L\u2019Or\u00e9al and Founders Factory will support the growth of these startups in many ways: the in-house team of 60 digital experts at Founders Factory, many of whom being successful entrepreneurs themselves, will provide hands-on and operational support and mentoring. L\u2019Or\u00e9al will bring its century-old beauty passion and expertise, access to marketing teams, R&amp;I and ecosystem.<\/p>\n<p>Lubomira Rochet, Chief Digital Officer L\u2019Or\u00e9al, said: \u201cWe believe that open innovation will be key to identify new disruptive ideas and co-develop new services to meet the aspirations of our consumers. We are excited to champion the next generation of beauty entrepreneurs through our partnership with Founders Factory and accelerate their development by bringing them our expertise of the beauty industry.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Henry Lane Fox, Co-Founder and CEO, Founders Factory, said: \u201cWe are only accepting five startups to join our programme per year and so competition is fierce. We understand how incredibly hard it is to build a successful business and know that every founder feels the strain in terms of capital, time and resource. By coupling the expertise of our operating team with the knowledge and scale of L\u2019Or\u00e9al, we provide an unrivalled platform for startups looking to make global impact.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Click here for an in-depth interview with Lubomira Rochet and Henry Lane Fox:<br \/>\n<iframe src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/5H2EEsg5-Ko?rel=0&amp;enablejsapi=1\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" frameborder=\"0\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>See more at <a href=\"http:\/\/www.loreal.com\/\">www.loreal.com<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>French cosmetics giant L&#8217;Oreal has\u00a0chosen to invest in five tech start-up firms in the beauty products sector along with partner Founders Factory, as L&#8217;Oreal steps [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":20640,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[3911,3913,89,3910,3912],"class_list":["post-20639","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-latest-news","tag-digital-beauty","tag-founders-factory","tag-loreal","tag-loreal-digital-tech","tag-start-up"],"acf":[],"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.dutyfreehunter.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20639","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.dutyfreehunter.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.dutyfreehunter.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.dutyfreehunter.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.dutyfreehunter.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=20639"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.dutyfreehunter.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20639\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.dutyfreehunter.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/20640"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.dutyfreehunter.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=20639"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.dutyfreehunter.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=20639"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.dutyfreehunter.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=20639"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}