Beauty Tech Lunch by VEIN & Carta
Join VEIN Market and Carta as we dive into the world of beauty & health and hear how founders and investors are leveraging tech to reinvent the industry. We’ll learn about the trends, best practices, and how to use them for your own business.
Come ready to learn and share with others in the tech beauty/health space. And enjoy lunch while you’re at it! We look forward to seeing you there!
Meet our panel:
Zehra Naqvi, founder of the Z-List, an angel investor, and an investor at Headline. Having worked with dozens of founders and investors over the course of her career, Zehra began connecting founders informally with VCs and angel investors in their respective industries and building a deeply-rooted network through these connections. What began as Zehra aggregating every deal that came her way and sending it out, transformed into a curated deal flow list, one where Zehra curates the top 10 deals she finds most compelling every two weeks. Each of these are diligenced by the Z-list team, and is shared to a growing community of what is today over 4,000 global investors.
Annelise Hillmann, co-founder of FRONTMAN, the fast men’s acne care brand, creating a new category of ultra-fast skincare and cosmetic products for instant confidence. The brand’s hero product is FRONTMAN Skintone Acne Treatment, a dual function spot treatment that hides & treats with salicylic acid. FRONTMAN products are dermatologist-approved, eco-conscious, innovative, vegan, and under $25. Gen Z cofounders Nick and Annelise built FRONTMAN from their experiences as a guy who hated skincare routines and a dermatologist’s daughter.
Serena Advani, founder of Seadrop Skincare is reinventing skincare as tablets instead of liquids to benefit your skin and the planet. While traditional liquid cleanser is ~90% water and stored in single-use plastic, Seadrop's waterless cleanser comes in zero-waste, refillable packaging for skincare that’s cleaner for both the planet and your skin. Serena holds degrees in cognitive neuroscience and operations (with a focus on neuromarketing) from Penn, along with an MBA from Wharton (where she served as a President of the Wharton Beauty Club). She previously worked on beauty due diligence at McKinsey and in global brand strategy at Estee Lauder Companies (Bobbi Brown), and she has been named a 2023 Most Influential ESG Leader by Women’s Wear Daily.
Our Hosts:
VEIN is a data-first retailer for consumers who are frustrated with the complexities of buying skincare and beauty products. We streamline the path to purchase by leveraging AI to connect consumers to the right products for them based on skin types/issues. VEIN also partners with brands to provide an in-depth understanding of their consumers through robust data and product feedback, unlike other retailers in the space. These partnerships enable brands to develop better products and, ultimately, service to our consumers. Check us out at https://www.veinmarket.com/
Carta is an ownership and equity management platform trusted by thousands of founders, investors, and employees. Carta’s platform of software and services lays the groundwork so you can focus on building the future. We see an opportunity to expand the global ownership graph so that everyone has the opportunity to own a portion of what they build. That’s why we built the infrastructure to make it as cheap and easy to issue equity as it is to run payroll. It’s why we’re lowering the barriers to start investing through software. And it’s why we will always provide the education and tools necessary for owners everywhere. We believe that by providing the infrastructure that fuels innovation, we lower the barriers to entry and move the world forward into an era of ownership.