023- What I'm Reading Week of December 17th
👋 Hello everyone.
🔗 Every link in this newsletter routes back to my blog where I provide a summary, my opinion, and access to the original content.
⭐️ = What excites me most this week.
💭 What is exciting me this week: a microbiome company using saliva to analyze your oral health, a non-invasive way to measure blood sugar levels, a magic supplement dust that makes commonly difficult foods to digest easier on the tummy, and advances in wearables.
We are inching ever closer to a future of less invasive, more rapid diagnostics making measurements easier and more accessible changing how we view medicine as poking and prodding…to swabbing and wearables.
🗞 NEWS & PRODUCTS
The full list of participants in Sephora Accelerate 2022. There are a total of 10 brands across make-up, hair, face, and body.
Beauty Matter dives into the privacy and personalization, and how zero party data is changing the game.
⭐️ Know Labs is developing two devices using non-invasive Bio-RFID to measure blood glucose levels.
⭐️ Vik Asthma is a virtual assistant app providing 24/7 guidance for those with asthma, connecting users to clinical trials, and consumers with like-conditions.
⭐️ 👁 Vuity, an eye drop that can replace your reading glasses receives FDA approval.
😩 All about celebrity brands: An ‘encyclopedia’ of celebrity brands (The Cut) & a look at the churn of these brands (from The New York Times).
🧴 Skin:
Oilee Skincare, a subscription box normalizing oily-acne prone skin.
Igane sustainably sourced, biotech driven skincare from the Azores. This line relies on a proprietary liposome ‘EPC Factor’ capable of delivering ingredients deep into the skin…the brand does not share any data or findings to support its claims.
Sonatap, a 6-in-1 skincare device, improving the efficacy of product application & hygiene.
The rise of cosmetic chemist influencers, debunking marketing jargon, and diving into what is really behind the product.
The Man Company, based in Delhi, India offers head-to-toe premium personal care solutions for men.
Creamy, a Brazilian dermatologist founded skincare line enters the U.S.
⭐️ Carbonnique launches Carbonnique Studios, a wellness platform integrating yoga with their lymphatic rolling tool.
Global Nourish offers blue beauty focused face & body solutions, based on a European pharmacy heritage.
💪 Deodorant:
Poo-Pouri launches Pit-Pourri, all over deodorant for pits & bits.
🦷 Oral Care:
⭐️ Bristle Health is analyzing saliva to measure the oral microbiome as a predictor of oral health.
💊 Supplements:
Gaia Herbs launches into gummies with adaptogenic formulas sweetened & flavored with fruit juice.
⭐️ FODZYME by Kiwi Biosciences, is a enzymatic powder supplement which enables the digestion of FODMAPs, providing digestion relief for many.
👩🔬 Femtech:
Unfabled, a marketplace for menstrual wellness, offering sustainable cycle care solutions.
Whispa, a Nigerian based app, offering women anonymous consultations with doctors about sexual health, contraceptives, STDs and more.
⭐️ Gabbi an app predicting breast cancer risk, providing a plan and support.
💸 M&A, IPOs, SPACs...:Harry’s Labs is acquiring Lume, the deodorant brand for an undisclosed amount. Harry’s has plans to broaden its CPG offering.
Eurazeo acquires Beekman 1802, the self-care brand.
🔬RESEARCH
♀A systematic review of the vulvar microbiome - this review highlights the lack of knowledge of the vulvar microbiome and the possibility of detecting cancers early with this knowledge.
⌚️ Wearables🔋 A research team has designed a stretchable, washable, and rechargeable battery. It is highly cost efficient and easily commercialized, a really exciting step forward for wearables.
Stanford engineers publish findings in Nature of a high frequency, stretchable, and soft diode…capable of transmitting data and power at a fast enough rate for new types of wearables.
⭐️ 🚬 A wearable capable of detecting aerosolized nicotine in the air.
🧐 REPORTS
🇫🇷 Dealroom.Co looks at the French startup ecosystem in 2021.
Cosmetify Index 2021 - The top beauty brands, influencers, and more.
⭐️ CB Insights: Top 25 Industries & Technologies that Will Shape the Post Virus World.
Primary Ventures: E-Commerce Trends that Shaped 2021.
💡Enjoy,
-Anne