BOLD, the venture fund of L’Oréal

How to scale-up innovation? Part of BOLD’s mission is to find strategic synergies within the L’Oréal ecosystem. This involves working with our portfolio companies to help them transform their promising innovations into solutions which have the potential to be deployed at global scale. At this year's #BOLDForum, Tanguy de Labrouhe (Digital Innovation Director, L'Oréal) and Omar Tawakol (CEO, Rembrand) discussed this topic sharing their strategic framework for scaling innovations. ➡️ Success starts with thinking scale from day one, aligning markets, brands, and business models from the beginning. Rembrand, a BOLD portfolio company, demonstrates this approach by transforming advertising through seamless product integration in content. Working with L'Oréal CDMO team enabled the company to co-create a strong strategy, partnering with brands such as Garnier, Lancôme and roll-out to new countries 🚀 #CreateTheBeautyThatMovesTheWorld #FortuneFavorsTheBOLD 🤝 Christophe Babule Laurent SCHMITT Samantha Etienne Muriel ATIAS Tony Khajenouri Julie Pelcener Smithwhite Presca Ahn Adeline Girou Camille Jaegle Filippo Principi Baptiste Brun Raphaëlle Néré Solange Roulot Omar Tawakol Tanguy de Labrouhe

In a world where only 10% of start-ups are founded by women, it's important to give a voice to those who dare (source: Baromètre BCG x SISTA, 2023). This is why we are proud to see Diarrha Ndiaye, founder of our portfolio company Ami Colé, sharing her inspiring journey as an entrepreneur with Jaleesa Jaikaran, LinkedIn's 2022 Top Voice in Fashion & Beauty! Diarrha also discusses shade inclusivity in the beauty industry and the obstacles that come with being a Black, woman-owned brand. 🎥 Watch the full interview on YouTube: https://lnkd.in/eC7Jg_ED #CreateTheBeautyThatMovesTheWorld #FortuneFavorsTheBOLD 🤝 Christophe Babule Laurent SCHMITT Carol J. Hamilton Rachel Weiss, Nicholas Milosh, CPA, CA, Samantha Etienne Muriel ATIAS Tony Khajenouri Julie Pelcener Smithwhite Presca Ahn Adeline Girou Camille Jaegle Filippo Principi Baptiste Brun Raphaëlle Néré Solange Roulot 

We can’t spell beauty without “u”!     That’s why BOLD portfolio company Sparty takes a personalized approach to empowering consumers to make beauty their own. Through haircare brand Medulla, Sparty is delivering a “unique-to-u” experience that extends to every step of the customer journey, from shop to shower. Following a brand renovation Medulla is offering a range of new products and formulas, based on data from 500,000 hair quality diagnoses. At the center of this renovation are:    🧴 Personalized bottles and formulas, with up to 70,000 possible combinations  🧪 A new haircare program, including diagnostic tests and formula adjustments  💸 Product changes that offer more shampoo per bottle at a better price    These updates are essential to Medulla’s customer-centric approach to haircare, which strives to answer the question: “What if everything in my daily life were tailored to me?” It’s a long-term way of managing haircare, focused on making hair beautiful from the core.    At BOLD, we’re proud to support a new generation of forward-thinking beauty brands that prioritize the individual. With this new chapter, Medulla’s enabling consumers to define beauty on their own terms – from discovery to purchase and each step in between.      #FortuneFavorsTheBOLD #CreateTheBeautyThatMovesTheWorld 🤝Christophe Babule Laurent SCHMITT Samantha Etienne Muriel ATIAS Tony Khajenouri Julie Pelcener Smithwhite Presca Ahn Adeline Girou Camille Jaegle Filippo Principi Yuji Okamura James Maeda Hiromitsu Ota Yosuke Miyama Kotaro Okamura Takanori Susa Xiaoxin Shao

What will beauty look like in 2040?   That’s the question Deepak Shahdadpuri (Managing Director, DSG Consumer Partners) and Nader Naeymi-Rad (Founder, Indie Beauty Media Group) have tried to answer during the last BOLD forum sharing their provoking and disruptive vision on tomorrow's beauty landscape.   ➡️ Their discussion highlighted a clear timing: the next 15 years mark a turning point where established trends will mature while new ones will flourish. Looking at the crystal ball, our expert speakers including Diarrha Ndiaye, Marie-Caroline Darbon and Katherine Power went through a range of topics such as sustainability, increasing diversity, emerging markets like India, new service expectations, and role of AI which, when taken together, are designing what beauty will look like in 2040.   This long-term vision is a key driver that allows us stepping into an un-know future, working alongside innovative start-ups to redefine and build tomorrow’s beauty codes 🚀   #CreateTheBeautyThatMovesTheWorld #FortuneFavorsTheBOLD 🤝 Christophe Babule Laurent SCHMITT Samantha Etienne Muriel ATIAS Tony Khajenouri Julie Pelcener Smithwhite Presca Ahn Adeline Girou Camille Jaegle Filippo Principi Deepak Shahdadpuri Nader Naeymi-Rad Diarrha Ndiaye Marie-Caroline Darbon Katherine Power

What happens when cutting-edge biotechnology meets beauty? 🧬 During the 4th edition of the BOLD Forum, Joshua Britton Debut CEO and Adam R. Jones VP R&I Business Development at L'Oréal Group revealed how biomanufacturing is advancing cosmetic formulation.  Today, many of the active ingredients used in cosmetics already exist in trace amount in our environment. The aim of biotechnology is to understand how nature makes these ingredients to transform them into an industrially scalable system. For the beauty industry, this means reducing the need for petroleum-based formulas, while improving performance and enhancing sustainability of products. ➡️ These advanced processes are enabling the development of formulations supporting L'Oréal's 2030 environmental commitments. From biodiversity preservation to circular economy advancement, biotechnology is proving instrumental in building responsible supply chains. BOLD supports biotech companies to work collaboratively with L’Oreal Research and Development teams to unlock new horizons in beauty where scientific advancement meets environmental stewardship, delivering superior ingredients that benefit both consumers and our planet.  #CreateTheBeautyThatMovesTheWorld #FortuneFavorsTheBOLD #Innovation #BeautyTech #Sustainability 🤝 Christophe Babule Laurent SCHMITT Samantha Etienne Muriel ATIAS Tony Khajenouri Julie Pelcener Smithwhite Presca Ahn Adeline Girou Camille Jaegle Filippo Principi Joshua Britton Adam R. Jones Mohamed Kanji Guillaume Climeau Guive Balooch

Sun protection: a matter of public health! At this year's BOLD Forum, pioneers in beautytech explored how emerging technologies are redefining photoprotection. As UV protection becomes increasingly sophisticated, the convergence of biotech and AI is creating unprecedented opportunities for innovation in this field. ➡️ Penelope Giraud, CeraVe US General Manager, and Emily Doyle, Co-founder and CEO of DUNE SUNCARE shared their expertise on evolving sun protection technologies. Their discussion highlighted how innovation is enabling more refined approaches to photoprotection, considering the complexity of different skin profiles. These innovations and building consumer habits are important because protecting our skin is about more than beauty: it's about health. #CreateTheBeautyThatMovesTheWorld #FortuneFavorsTheBOLD #Innovation #BeautyTech #Suncare 🤝 Christophe Babule Laurent SCHMITT Samantha Etienne Muriel ATIAS Tony Khajenouri Julie Pelcener Smithwhite Presca Ahn Adeline Girou Camille Jaegle Filippo Principi Penelope Giraud Emily Doyle

What does it take for innovation to meet the growing demand for personalized beauty? At this year's forum, Guive Balooch, Global Managing Director of Augmented Beauty and Tech Innovation at L'Oréal Group, and Veracity founder Allie Egan shared insights on bridging science and consumer needs. ➡️ In a world of expanding diversity, beauty tech is revolutionizing personalization like never before. Customization from tools such as advanced diagnostics and unique services gives the opportunity for individual's beauty journey’s to be unlocked. People can access more unique and targeted offers to better address each individual’s needs. The ability to bring professional-level beauty tech innovations into our daily lives, is where scientific excellence meets genuine consumer connection. #CreateTheBeautyThatMovesTheWorld #FortuneFavorsTheBOLD #Innovation #BeautyTech #Sustainability #Beauty 🤝 Christophe Babule Laurent SCHMITT Samantha Etienne Muriel ATIAS Tony Khajenouri Julie Pelcener Smithwhite Presca Ahn Adeline Girou Camille Jaegle Filippo Principi Guive Balooch Allie Egan

The 7th China International Import Expo (CIIE) sets new horizons in Shanghai!   ➡ L'Oréal unveiled its new launches at the 7th China International Import Expo (CIIE) in Shanghai, joining global leaders such as Siemens Energy, Michelin and Nestlé at this pivotal platform for international trade and innovation.   As part of innovation ecosystem, BOLD portfolio companies were featured at the event. Zuvi Inc.'s Airlight Pro, advancing hair care through light technology; Prinker's digital temporary tattoo device; ShineHigh biotech innovation improving the functionality of active ingredients, and Abolis Biotechnologies tailor-made biotech solutions for natural and modified microorganisms. The exhibit also featured L'Oréal North Asia Big Bang 2024 innovation winners.   BOLD is happy to enable our promising startups to access significant international platforms to showcase their innovation.    #CreateTheBeautyThatMovesTheWorld #FortuneFavorsTheBOLD #Innovation #BeautyTech   🤝 Christophe Babule Laurent SCHMITT Samantha Etienne Muriel ATIAS Tony Khajenouri Julie Pelcener Smithwhite Presca Ahn Adeline Girou Camille Jaegle Filippo Principi Cyrille PAUTHENIER Valérie Brunel Mingyu Wang Luke Yun

Longevity: An important beauty frontier 🧬 At this year's BOLD Forum, Patrick Aebischer highlighted an innovative approach to the topic of longevity; focusing on improving "healthspan", which means living in better health for longer. Timeline®, a biotech startup, is at the forefront of this movement, developing natural molecules with the potential to revolutionize how we approach aging. Their research centers around Mitopure® which is the first postbiotic molecule shown to trigger a crucial recycling process within our cells called mitophagy, targeting age-related cellular decline. This innovation recognizes that outward radiance stems from inner wellness. Through investments in companies like Timeline, BOLD is pioneering the future of healthy aging, where scientific breakthroughs meet consumer wellbeing.  #CreateTheBeautyThatMovesTheWorld #FortuneFavorsTheBOLD #Innovation #BeautyTech #Sustainability #Beauty 🤝 Christophe Babule Laurent SCHMITT Samantha Etienne Muriel ATIAS Tony Khajenouri Julie Pelcener Smithwhite Presca Ahn Adeline Girou Camille Jaegle Filippo Principi Patrick Aebischer Chris RINSCH Caroline Delaunay Jean-Thierry Simonnet Guillaume Climeau Guive Balooch

When biotechnology powers beauty innovation! Proud to see BOLD portfolio company Debut recognized as "Best Breakthrough Supplier" at BeautyMatter's NEXT Summit 2024 🏆 Debut develops bio-based product ingredients and formulations which make a meaningful impact in the beauty ecosystem. A game-changing approach that spans from ingredient discovery to finished product. 👏 Joshua Britton Guive Balooch Mohamed Kanji Adam R. Jones Frédéric Legrand Laurent SCHMITT Samantha Etienne Muriel ATIAS Tony Khajenouri Julie Pelcener Smithwhite Presca Ahn Camille Jaegle Adeline Girou Filippo Principi #CreateTheBeautyThatMovesTheWorld #FortuneFavorsTheBOLD #Innovation #BeautyTech #Sustainability #Beauty