Lion Pose
Clinical skincare for people of color, launching in Sephora.
Lion Pose is making clinical skincare products for people of color, starting with a dark spot serum and sunscreen. We have a distribution contract with Sephora who forecasts $3M of sales in the first year. Cofounders Madhu and Nisha met at Harvard Business School and we previously grew an ecommerce business to $10M sales in one year. Skincare for people of color is a $9B US market opportunity, and clinical skincare is the fastest growing category in Sephora. Our safe and effective solutions, formulated with Harvard dermatologists, landed us a Sephora contract pre-launch, an extremely rare feat. And we just brought on an A-list celebrity as our third co-founder and investor (confidential until launch, to be shared verbally).
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Active Founders
Nisha Phatak
Cofounder of Lion Pose, making clinical skincare products for people of color. Formerly ran Operations at Great Jones (DTC cookware) and Huggable (DTC infant formula). Former Head of Business Development at Indiegogo and led the Google partnership at Box. Alum of Harvard Business School, Carnegie Mellon (Statistics), Y Combinator, and Sephora's accelerator program. Recovering financial analyst in the consumer tech sector.
Madhu Punjabi
Former CEO of Huggable. Previously a Product Manager at Facebook, Pinterest, and TellApart. Prior to that, she worked on finance and partnerships for Google Shopping. Graduated from Harvard Business School and New York University.
