Organization · Venture Capital
Elevate Beauty
Elevate Beauty Ventures is an early-stage investment platform focused on beauty and wellness brands, created in partnership with L Catterton. It invests between $5 million and $10 million in companies with compelling brand stories.
Overview
What Elevate Beauty does
What Elevate Beauty is
Elevate Beauty Ventures is an early-stage investment platform focused on beauty and wellness brands, created in partnership with L Catterton. It invests between $5 million and $10 million in companies with compelling brand stories.
How it participates in the startup ecosystem
The current public profile supports funder capabilities. Each capability below is shown separately so organization identity and role-specific information do not get conflated.
Operational profile
Organization status and context
Organization status describes the entity itself. Funding and program availability appear within the relevant capability profile.
- Operational status
- Active
- Organization type
- Venture Capital
- Structured capabilities
- Funder
- Last reviewed
- May 2, 2026
Official channels
Find Elevate Beauty elsewhere
Open the official website or a supported primary organization account.
Capability profile
Elevate Beauty as a funder
Investment thesis
Elevate Beauty invests in early-stage beauty and wellness brands that demonstrate emotional connectivity with consumers and have compelling brand stories. The platform focuses on scaling these companies through strategic and operational value creation.
Focus narrative
Elevate Beauty Ventures typically invests between $5 million and $10 million in emerging growth companies that have compelling brand stories. The organization emphasizes designing and executing bespoke value creation plans to achieve sustainable growth for its partner companies.
Value beyond capital
Elevate Beauty Ventures provides tailored learning opportunities and bespoke value creation plans to its portfolio companies, leveraging operational expertise and resources from L Catterton to drive sustainable growth.
Terms and economics
- Typical check
- $5,000,000–$10,000,000
Focus and fit
- Stages
- Seed · Series A · Series B
- Sectors
- Consumer
- Regions
- Global · North America · Europe
Availability
- Currently deploying
- Yes
Portfolio and track record
Portfolio context
DIBS Beauty: Initially a DTC-only brand, DIBS Beauty launched at Ulta after Elevate's investment in 2023. Eighth Day: Received a significant minority investment for team growth, innovation, and marketing. Irene Forte Skincare: A current investment listed on Elevate's site. Vyrao: A British fragrance brand backed by Elevate, with investment reported in 2024. YSE Beauty: Another brand featured among Elevate's portfolio.
Common questions
What to know about Elevate Beauty
Upseed classifies Elevate Beauty under the Venture Capital organization type. Its current public profile includes funder capabilities.
Source and update disclosure
Know what this page is based on
Source basis
Public organization and program material, official websites, and structured Upseed records.
Last reviewed
May 2, 2026
Known limits
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