# Top 50 Beauty Startup Investors in United States in May 2026

## Greycroft
- Type: VC Fund
- Location: New York, New York, United States
- Relevant deals: 10
- Stages: Series A, Seed, Series B
- Focus: Software, E-Commerce, Internet

Venture capital and technology investments

## BAM Ventures
- Type: VC Fund
- Location: Los Angeles, California, United States
- Relevant deals: 9
- Stages: Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed
- Focus: E-Commerce, Retail, Internet

BAM Ventures is an early-stage consumer-focused fund based in Los Angeles, CA.

## BBG Ventures
- Type: VC Fund
- Location: New York, New York, United States
- Relevant deals: 9
- Stages: Seed, Series A, Series B
- Focus: E-Commerce, Software, Health Care

BBG Ventures is an early stage fund focused on consumer tech startups with a female founder.

## Unilever Ventures
- Type: VC Fund
- Location: London, England, United Kingdom
- Relevant deals: 8
- Stages: Series A, Series B
- Focus: Health Care, Beauty, E-Commerce

Unilever Ventures is the venture capital and private equity arm of Unilever. We support forward-thinking founders who are crafting brands for the modern consumer.

## Backstage Capital
- Type: VC Fund
- Location: West Hollywood, California, United States
- Relevant deals: 8
- Stages: Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A
- Focus: Software, Health Care, Internet

Backstage Capital is a venture capital fund investing in the best startups led by underrepresented founders in the U.S. The firm was founded in 2015 by Arlan Hamilton and is headquartered in West Hollywood, California, United States.

## Lerer Hippeau
- Type: VC Fund
- Location: New York, New York, United States
- Relevant deals: 7
- Stages: Seed, Series A, Series B
- Focus: Software, E-Commerce, Internet

Lerer Hippeau is an early-stage venture capital fund based in New York City. As founders and operators ourselves, we see returns in relationships

## SoGal Ventures
- Type: VC Fund
- Location: New York, New York, United States
- Relevant deals: 7
- Stages: Seed, Series A
- Focus: Wellness, Health Care, E-Commerce

The first female-led next generation venture capital fund

## Right Side Capital Management
- Type: VC Fund
- Location: San Francisco, California, United States
- Relevant deals: 7
- Stages: Seed, Pre-Seed, Convertible Note
- Focus: Software, SaaS, Health Care

Right Side Capital Management is a venture capital firm that helps startups build their company. It invests exclusively in the pre-seed round of technology startups and makes 75-100 investment per year. The firms prefers to invest in diversified technology sectors such as the internet and cloud companies.RSCM was established in 2010 and is basedin San Francisco, California.

## Fab Co-Creation Studio Ventures
- Type: VC Fund
- Location: San Francisco, California, United States
- Relevant deals: 7
- Stages: Seed, Pre-Seed, Series B
- Focus: Beauty, E-Commerce, Health Care

We care for impact. We are purpose and data-driven people. We grow faster.

## L Catterton
- Type: VC Fund
- Location: Greenwich, Connecticut, United States
- Relevant deals: 6
- Stages: Private Equity, Series B
- Focus: E-Commerce, Food and Beverage, Health Care

L Catterton provides capital to companies to support acquisitions, management buyouts, recapitalizations, and turnarounds, as well as investment capital to support a company's continued growth and development. They consider investments across a number of targeted industry verticals within the consumer industry: food and beverage, retail andrestaurants, consumer products and services, and media and marketing services.L Catterton was founded in 1989 and is headquartered in Greenwich, Connecticut.

## Finn Capital Partners
- Type: VC Fund
- Location: San Francisco, California, United States
- Relevant deals: 6
- Stages: Seed, Series A
- Focus: E-Commerce, Food and Beverage, Consumer Goods

Finn Capital Partners is a family fund born out of a third generation family business and a deep-seated family tradition of entrepreneurship. Led by Founder and Managing Partner Patrick Finn.

## CircleUp
- Type: VC Fund
- Location: San Francisco, California, United States
- Relevant deals: 6
- Stages: Series A, Seed
- Focus: Food and Beverage, Food Processing, E-Commerce

Learn more about CircleUp Growth Partners, what we look for in early-stage consumer brands, and the brands we have funded. 

## Maveron
- Type: VC Fund
- Location: San Francisco, California, United States
- Relevant deals: 5
- Stages: Seed, Series A, Series B
- Focus: E-Commerce, Health Care, Internet

Maveron is a consumer-only venture capital firm focused on partnering with world-class entrepreneurs building standout consumer brands.

## Bessemer Venture Partners
- Type: VC Fund
- Location: Redwood City, California, United States
- Relevant deals: 5
- Stages: Series B, Series A, Series C
- Focus: Software, Information Technology, SaaS

For the entrepreneurs who want to create revolutions of their own.

## Female Founders Fund
- Type: VC Fund
- Location: New York, New York, United States
- Relevant deals: 5
- Stages: Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed
- Focus: Health Care, E-Commerce, Internet

Female Founders Fund is a seed stage venture fund that invests exclusively in female-founded companies. We believe strongly in the exponential power of exceptional female talent. We invest in e-commerce, media, platforms, advertising and web-enabled services businesses.

## Precursor Ventures
- Type: VC Fund
- Location: San Francisco, California, United States
- Relevant deals: 5
- Stages: Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A
- Focus: Software, Health Care, Information Technology

Precursor Ventures is an early-stage venture capital firm focused on pre-seed and seed investments in North America. The firm focuses on investments in B2B and B2C software applications and hardware.
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## Ben Zises
- Type: Angel
- Location: New York, New York, United States
- Relevant deals: 5
- Stages: Seed, Angel, Pre-Seed
- Focus: E-Commerce, Supply Chain Management, Hospitality

Ben Zises is an Angel Investor at SuperAngel.Fund. He attended Boston University.

## Fernbrook Capital Management LLC
- Type: VC Fund
- Location: New York, New York, United States
- Relevant deals: 4
- Stages: Seed, Series A, Series B
- Focus: E-Commerce, Fashion, Software

Fernbrook is a venture capital fund, with offices in New York and San Francisco, that invests in early-stage, consumer-facing companies with an emphasis on retail technology


## FirstMark
- Type: VC Fund
- Location: New York, New York, United States
- Relevant deals: 4
- Stages: Series A, Series B, Seed
- Focus: Software, SaaS, E-Commerce

FirstMark is an early-stage venture capital firm in New York City. We back and accelerate founders of iconic and industry-defining companies.

## Slow Ventures
- Type: VC Fund
- Location: San Francisco, California, United States
- Relevant deals: 4
- Stages: Seed, Series A, Series B
- Focus: Software, Internet, Health Care

Slow Ventures is a community built on the collective experience and fueled by curiosity, Slow understands the entrepreneurial journey. Investing at the center of technology and on the edges of science, society, and culture, Slow gives founders the resources, connections, experiences, and empathy required to build strong, sustainable companies.

## Halogen Ventures
- Type: VC Fund
- Location: Santa Monica, California, United States
- Relevant deals: 4
- Stages: Seed, Convertible Note
- Focus: E-Commerce, Internet, Fashion

Halogen Ventures is a Los Angeles, California-based Venture Capital fund focused on investing in early-stage consumer technology startups with a female on the founding team. Halogen Ventures invests in pre-seed, seed, and series A companies creating groundbreaking technologies and products in the consumer space. It is hands-on and supports foundersthrough their full lifecycle. The firm helps them build their networks, get brand exposure, hire great talent, raise follow-on rounds and find their path to acquisition or IPO.

## Rock Health Capital
- Type: VC Fund
- Location: San Francisco, California, United States
- Relevant deals: 4
- Stages: Seed, Series A, Series B
- Focus: Health Care, Software, Medical

We invest in remarkable entrepreneurs working at the intersection of healthcare and technology.

## Pipeline Angels
- Type: VC Fund
- Location: New York, New York, United States
- Relevant deals: 4
- Stages: Seed, Angel, Pre-Seed
- Focus: Health Care, Education, Software

Pipeline Angels is changing the face of angel investing and creating capital for women and non-binary femme social entrepreneurs. Our members serve as the friends and family round for entrepreneurs who may not already have support at that critical stage.

## Sonoma Brands Capital
- Type: VC Fund
- Location: Sonoma, California, United States
- Relevant deals: 4
- Stages: Series A, Seed, Series B
- Focus: Food and Beverage, Health Care, Food Processing

Sonoma Brands is a private equity firm focused on the growth sectors of the consumer economy. We aim to partner with bold, innovative founders on their way to building the world’s next enduring brands across the physical and digital landscape.

## Upfront Ventures
- Type: VC Fund
- Location: Santa Monica, California, United States
- Relevant deals: 4
- Stages: Series A, Seed, Series B
- Focus: Software, E-Commerce, Internet

Upfront Ventures is a venture capital firm based in Los Angeles. We invest in technology businesses across digital media, SaaS, consumer internet and retail innovation.

## Brand Foundry Ventures
- Type: VC Fund
- Location: Austin, Texas, United States
- Relevant deals: 4
- Stages: Seed, Series A, Series B
- Focus: E-Commerce, Health Care, Wellness

Brand Foundry Ventures they invest in early-stage companies operating in the consumer and business sectors.

## Wildcat Capital Management
- Type: VC Fund
- Location: Fort Worth, Texas, United States
- Relevant deals: 4
- Stages: Series B, Seed
- Focus: Health Care, E-Commerce, Fashion

Wildcat was founded in 2011 as the single-family office for David Bonderman and focuses on making partnership centric investments in leading companies.

## Sam Zises
- Type: Angel
- Location: New York, New York, United States
- Relevant deals: 4
- Stages: Seed, Angel, Series A
- Focus: Internet, Big Data, B2B

Sam Zises is the Founder and CEO of [L]earned Media, a content marketing and design agency schooling brands since 2012.

## Centre Street Partners
- Type: VC Fund
- Location: New York, New York, United States
- Relevant deals: 4
- Stages: Seed, Pre-Seed
- Focus: Health Care, E-Commerce, Retail

Centre Street Partners is an early stage focused investment fund.

## New Voices Fund
- Type: VC Fund
- Location: Amityville, New York, United States
- Relevant deals: 4
- Stages: Series A, Seed
- Focus: Beauty, Consumer Goods, Software

New Voices Fund is a venture capital firm and our mission has been to deliberately build purposeful businesses serving the needs of underserved and oftentimes marginalized consumers and communities.

## Forerunner Ventures
- Type: VC Fund
- Location: San Francisco, California, United States
- Relevant deals: 4
- Stages: Series A, Seed, Series B
- Focus: E-Commerce, Retail, Fashion

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## Strong Ventures
- Type: VC Fund
- Location: Los Angeles, California, United States
- Relevant deals: 4
- Stages: Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed
- Focus: E-Commerce, Health Care, Apps

Strong Ventures is a seed fund, based in California, that finances, supports, and mentors Korean/Asian/Global entrepreneurs, empowering them to build strong ventures and to break successfully into the global market.With proven experience as operators, executives, and entrepreneurs, they provide hands-on assistance and guidance. On topof their financial investment, they aim to provide tangible value to their entrepreneurs, through network reach, strategic thinking, and execution collaboration. And, as they engage together in their venture endeavors, they hope to make the entrepreneurial ecosystem, where they build companies and labor in, a better, stronger, and more fun place for all.

## Cowboy Ventures
- Type: VC Fund
- Location: Palo Alto, California, United States
- Relevant deals: 4
- Stages: Seed, Series A, Series B
- Focus: Software, E-Commerce, Internet

Palo Alto-based VC supporting extraordinary seed-stage founders of all backgrounds to build legendary technology companies.

## Lightspeed Venture Partners
- Type: VC Fund
- Location: Menlo Park, California, United States
- Relevant deals: 4
- Stages: Series A, Series B, Seed
- Focus: Software, Information Technology, Enterprise Software

Lightspeed Venture Partners is a venture capital firm that engages in consumer, enterprise, technology, and cleantech markets. It focuses on seed, early-stage, later-stage, expansion-stage, start-ups, growth companies, and incubation, and specializes in debt financing for start-ups and growth companies.Lightspeed Venture Partners invests invarious sectors that include enterprise, consumer, big data, bitcoin, enterprise technology, cleantech, mobile, internet, financial technology, cloud solutions, e-commerce, storage, media, networking, energy, and software, software-as-a-service, information technology, biotechnology, and social. It mainly invests in countries such as the United States, Europe, Israel, China, and India.

## Landis Capital
- Type: VC Fund
- Location: New York, New York, United States
- Relevant deals: 4
- Stages: Seed, Series A, Series B
- Focus: E-Commerce, Beauty, Cosmetics

LANDIS CAPITAL PROVIDES SEED, EARLY, AND LATER STAGE VENTURE INVESTMENTS IN CONSUMER PRODUCTS, E-COMMERCE AND ENTERPRISE COMPANIES.

## MaC Venture Capital
- Type: VC Fund
- Location: Los Angeles, California, United States
- Relevant deals: 3
- Stages: Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed
- Focus: Software, Information Technology, Health Care

MaC Venture Capital is a seed-stage venture capital firm that invests in technology startups leveraging shifts in cultural trends and behaviors.

## Black Jays
- Type: VC Fund
- Location: New York, New York, United States
- Relevant deals: 3
- Stages: Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed
- Focus: E-Commerce, Retail, Health Care

We are a venture capital firm investing in entrepreneurs that are reimagining how consumers do things today.

## M3 Ventures
- Type: VC Fund
- Location: New York, New York, United States
- Relevant deals: 3
- Stages: Seed, Series A
- Focus: E-Commerce, Food and Beverage, Retail

M3 Ventures is a New York based strategic investment partner to visionary founders in the fashion, lifestyle and wellness spaces. Managed by former creative artists agency executive Martin Dolfi, M3 Ventures provides early-stage capital to companies based in the United States.

## Jared Smith
- Type: Angel
- Location: Provo, Utah, United States
- Relevant deals: 3
- Stages: Seed, Series C, Series A
- Focus: SaaS, Enterprise Software, Beauty

Jared Smith is a Co-Founder at Qualtrics.

## Serena Ventures
- Type: VC Fund
- Location: San Francisco, California, United States
- Relevant deals: 3
- Stages: Seed, Series A
- Focus: E-Commerce, Health Care, Wellness

Serena Ventures focuses on early-stage companies and giving them the opportunity to be heard. Serena Ventures extends relationships, encourages collaboration among portfolio companies, and expands partnership opportunities across my vast network.

## Version One Ventures
- Type: VC Fund
- Location: Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada
- Relevant deals: 3
- Stages: Seed, Series A, Series B
- Focus: Software, Internet, Blockchain

Version One Ventures is an early-stage venture fund investing in the next generation of mission-driven founders.

## Grace Beauty Capital
- Type: VC Fund
- Location: New York, New York, United States
- Relevant deals: 3
- Stages: Seed, Series A
- Focus: E-Commerce, Fashion, Retail

Grace Beauty Capital is an early stage venture capital firm dedicated to the consumer & retail sectors founded on the core belief that deep domain and industry knowledge, operating expertise and extensive networks are essential to support early stage entrepreneurs and generate superior investment returns. Our mission is to become the premierpartner for early stage digital brands, consumer and retail technology startups on the journey from kitchen table to household name.

## Ulu Ventures
- Type: VC Fund
- Location: Palo Alto, California, United States
- Relevant deals: 3
- Stages: Seed, Series A
- Focus: Software, Financial Services, Information Technology

With deep connections to Stanford and Silicon Valley, Ulu Ventures is a venture capital firm that actively seeks and funds women and diverse founder teams.

## FundersClub
- Type: VC Fund
- Location: San Francisco, California, United States
- Relevant deals: 3
- Stages: Seed, Series A
- Focus: Software, SaaS, Information Technology

FundersClub focuses on Seed and early stage investments. Investments include Coinbase, Instacart, Flexport, Le Tote, Teespring, Memebox, GitLab.FundersClub is the world's first online venture capital platform. Backed by Y Combinator, First Round Capital, Spark Capital, Intel Capital, Draper, Andreessen Horowitz, Felicis Ventures, and more;FundersClub Inc. was founded in 2012 and is based in the United States.

## ACME Capital
- Type: VC Fund
- Location: San Francisco, California, United States
- Relevant deals: 3
- Stages: Seed, Series A, Series B
- Focus: Software, Health Care, Information Technology

ACME is a venture capital firm investing in iconic founders disrupting massive markets.

## Scrum Ventures
- Type: VC Fund
- Location: San Francisco, California, United States
- Relevant deals: 3
- Stages: Seed, Series A
- Focus: Software, Mobile, Information Technology

Scrum Ventures is an early-stage venture firm that has invested in over 80 startups across a range of industries in the U.S. and Japan. Based in San Francisco with extensive experience and networks in both Silicon Valley and Japan, Scrum Ventures accelerates portfolio companies with global opportunities. Scrum Studios is reinventing the traditional accelerator -- taking a stage-agnostic approach in connecting best-in-class startups with leading Japanese corporations.

## Bullish
- Type: VC Fund
- Location: New York, New York, United States
- Relevant deals: 3
- Stages: Seed, Series A, Series B
- Focus: E-Commerce, Fashion, Consumer Goods

One part Consumer Investment Firm, one part Strategic Creative Agency.
Bullish is an early stage consumer investment firm based in NYC. Current and past investments include Peloton, Casper, Harry’s, Warby Parker, Care/Of, Function of Beauty, Hu Chocolate, and Sunday Lawn.

## Amplifyher Ventures
- Type: VC Fund
- Location: New York, New York, United States
- Relevant deals: 3
- Stages: Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed
- Focus: Health Care, E-Commerce, Fashion

Venture capital fund investing in female founders and women leaders

## Andreessen Horowitz
- Type: VC Fund
- Location: Menlo Park, California, United States
- Relevant deals: 3
- Stages: Series A, Series B, Seed
- Focus: Software, Information Technology, Internet

Andreessen Horowitz (a16z) is a venture capital firm in Silicon Valley, California, that backs bold entrepreneurs building the future through technology.

## Global Founders Capital
- Type: VC Fund
- Location: Berlin, Berlin, Germany
- Relevant deals: 3
- Stages: Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed
- Focus: Financial Services, Software, FinTech

Over the past two decades, GFC have backed over five hundred entrepreneurs worldwide, e.g. Facebook, LinkedIn, Slack, and Away Travel.

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