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Founders who turned Indian beauty into a margin-led, listed category.
11 stories in Beauty
Her blow dryer stopped, her natural waves appeared, and the haircare aisle turned out to have almost nothing for them. She left a McKinsey career to formulate for Indian hair, Indian water and Indian weather.
She has an IIT Kharagpur degree, an INSEAD MBA and years at Flipkart and Procter and Gamble. When she started her own brand in 2021 she was also the person packing the boxes.
Roughly three in four Indian women have brown to deep brown skin, and the counters were stocked for the rest. She left consulting in San Francisco to build the brand that stopped pretending otherwise.
She and her husband started Juicy Chemistry in a Coimbatore kitchen with 5,000 rupees, after a family business collapsed. It became India’s first certified organic beauty brand and raised a 6.3 million dollar round led by Verlinvest.
With Amit Sarda, Tuli co-founded SoulFlower in 2001 around essential oils and handmade soaps. More than two decades later, it's a nationally distributed natural personal-care brand, built slowly, on her own terms.
A first-generation founder with a B.Tech in cosmetic engineering and fifteen years inside the beauty industry, she co-founded Cosmic Nutracos in 2007 and grew Gaia and Skinella into a bootstrapped, debt-free FMCG group reaching 40,000+ retail outlets.
She spent years on Instagram talking openly about ingredients, scalp health and what doesn’t work, then turned that audience and that point of view into a co-founded, venture-backed hair-care company.
She left an engineering track to build a clean-beauty brand from Kolkata that takes Ayurveda seriously as ingredient science, not as nostalgia, and won an on-air Shark Tank India deal making the case.
She left a global beauty career to start a clinically-led, science-forward skincare brand priced for Indian skin and Indian wallets, and built one of the breakout D2C beauty companies of the last few years.
How a former Managing Director at Kotak Mahindra Capital founded India’s most loved beauty destination, and rang the bell on Dalal Street.
An IIT-IIM graduate and ultramarathoner, Vineeta spent more than a decade building a beauty brand designed specifically for Indian skin.
Founders who turned Indian beauty into a margin-led, listed category.
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