This year summer took its time to finally arrive, but it came with some fantastic news for our Villa Blu portfolio👇
With Robertet Group’s presence growing in China and a bustling startup ecosystem coming to life, it made sense for Villa Blu to go explore this fantastic Chinese metropolis. A Villa Blu delegation spent 10 days in Shanghai meeting entrepreneurs, investors, accelerators and partners from the Chinese ecosystem. Our general impression was incredibly positive and optimistic and be sure to stay tuned to hear more about our adventures in China.
We’re proud to renew our support for the local French Tech ecosystem and positioning both Robertet and Villa Blu as a main actor on the Côte d’Azur for entrepreneurship, investment and acceleration. While our ambitions are global, Robertet’s history and 175-year old roots in Grasse mean that we’re strongly tied to our Southern territory.
This month, the teams from Robertet’s Health & Beauty division, led by our very own Olivier Maubert, moved into Villa Blu offices with the intention of bringing together two different worlds of innovation. On one side, Robertet’s youngest division with a focus on powerfully innovative natural active ingredients. On the other, young entrepreneurs growing their companies with Robertet’s support. By working together, we’re sure that Robertet will pursue its role as world leader in natural innovation.
After a year of acceleration at Villa Blu, Lisa Schino and her natural haircare startup Lao Care are getting ready to announce a whole series of fantastic news. You’ll be seeing a lot more of Lisa in our next newsletters, but we’re starting with the brand new design of Lao Care products as well as polished website to continue growing. Everything happens for a reason and you’ll soon be seeing where this new brand identity is taking us…
Very proud of Léa Steyer for her article in Nice Matin, describing her beginnings with Green Touch and her vision for the future of the perfumery industry. Since 2022, she’s been working with the world’s top perfumers and industry leaders to upcycle and transform their tons of paper waste into high-quality, handmade, olfactive products. Today, nearly every single actor of the industry works with Green Touch and we’re excited to be helping her scale over the next few years.
Today, 52% of French people own a pet 🐱🐶 And petcare is following human trends towards more natural and effective products. After launching online a few years ago, Truffe & Moustache are now heading to retail and pharmacy. With support from Villa Blu’s experts in pharmaceutical retail, Sophie & Thomas are preparing big launches throughout France over the coming months, so keep an eye out for their products in a pharmacy near you.
At the moment, three of our startups are currently raising funds, with more preparing themselves for a Q2 round.
Last chance : to jump in on our one-of-a-kind beverage company, Jane. They will be closing their seed round of €500K with Business Angels and a pocket of non-dilutive funding by the end of the month 👉 if you want to know more you can contact Alexandre : alexandre@jane-store.com
Last chance : Newcomers Danika, developing the next-generation of plastic-free, natural and efficient homecare products are closing a seed round with Business Angels by the end of September 👉 Please reach out to Romain for more information and access to their investor deck : romain@danika-naturel.com
Naturally effective & adorable petcare startup, Truffe & Moustache is still raising a seed round of €800K with Business Angels 👉 Thomas would be pleased to share his story and pitch deck : thomas@truffe-moustache.com
In July, we already have some exciting news from some of our startups, Villa Blu will be organising its traditional corporate retreat to work on the future of natural innovation and we’ll be hosting our first Summer Party !
See you all next month 👋
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