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BOLD - Business Opportunities for L'Oréal Development
Corporate VC · Clichy, France · Europe
BOLD is a corporate venture capital fund backed by L'Oréal that makes minority investments in startups worldwide. It also connects portfolio companies with L'Oréal teams for mentorship, expertise and collaboration.
Invests inHealthcare & Biotech
In its own wordsbeautywellnessconsumer brandsbiotechmedtechcorporate venture
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Or find every investor that fitsBOLD - Business Opportunities for L'Oréal Development lists 20 checked portfolio companies on its own site. Its largest themes are Healthcare & Biotech (52%), Consumer (11%) and AI & Machine Learning (7%). It invests most often alongside Silas Capital, Unilever Ventures and 1745 Ventures.
No funding round on record names BOLD - Business Opportunities for L'Oréal Development yet, so the figures come from its portfolio page.
Round figures show recent activity, not BOLD - Business Opportunities for L'Oréal Development's whole history. Rounds on record name 0 companies; its own site lists 20. Funding rounds are complete from mid-2025, so counts and the yearly trend undercount a firm that invested before then. The portfolio, themes and places come from its own site and are not affected.
Investment themes
share of its checked companiesThis firmAll checked companies
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| This firm | All checked companies | |
|---|---|---|
| Healthcare & Biotech | 52% | 15% |
| Consumer | 11% | 3% |
| AI & Machine Learning | 7% | 18% |
| Industrial & Manufacturing | 7% | 7% |
| E-commerce & Marketplaces | 7% | 5% |
| Real Estate & Construction | 4% | 3% |
| Media & Entertainment | 4% | 4% |
| Food & Agriculture | 4% | 3% |
Invests most often with
firms sharing its portfolio companiesShow as a table
| Share | |
|---|---|
| Silas Capital | 2 |
| Unilever Ventures | 2 |
| 1745 Ventures | 1 |
| ACVC Partners | 1 |
| Alkemi Growth Capital | 1 |
| Amplifyher Ventures | 1 |
| Better Ventures | 1 |
| Cantos | 1 |
Investor profile
percentile among all firmsShow as a table
| Measure | Percentile of all firms | Value |
|---|---|---|
| Portfolio size | 51th | 20 companies |
| Recent activity | 46th | 0 rounds in 12 months |
| Early stage | 54th | 0% of entries at pre-seed or seed |
| Evidence | 52th | 0% of companies confirmed by a round |
| Sector focus | 85th | 52% in its largest sector |
| Reach | 91th | 8 countries |
Its portfolio companies
where they are based, and what their own sites showSite status
- Site answers20100%
- No longer answers00%
- Points to another company00%
- Parked or sold domain00%
A site that stops answering three checks in a row is counted as no longer answering; that is not proof of closure. A site that points to another company is often an acquisition.
Co-investor network
who it backs companies with, and who they back togetherCompare BOLD - Business Opportunities for L'Oréal Development head to head
portfolio size, rounds, entry stages, themes and the companies both backThree or more firms at once: portfolio overlap.
Portfolio
20 companies checked against their own sites| Company | What it does | Themes | First round with it | Evidence |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Abolis Biotechnologies offers end-to-end solutions for bio-based product innovation using microbial biotechnology solutions | Healthcare & Biotech | Portfolio page | ||
| Arata sells hair and scalp care products | Healthcare & Biotech | Portfolio page | ||
| The company sells perfumes, body care products, and other goods online. | Consumer | Portfolio page | ||
| Carbios leads the change through enzyme-powered solutions for plastic and textile circularity | Industrial & ManufacturingSpace & Defense | Portfolio page | ||
| CHOSEN sells skin and hair care products. | Healthcare & Biotech | Portfolio page | ||
| The company sells skincare and beauty products online. | Healthcare & Biotech | Portfolio page | ||
| Debut combines AI and biotechnology to create beauty products | Healthcare & Biotech | Portfolio page | ||
| Future Origins produces drop-in molecular alternatives for ingredients made from palm oil used in thousands of consumer products worldwide. | Industrial & Manufacturing | Portfolio page | ||
| Slick provides software for hair, beauty, and barber salons to manage their businesses | Healthcare & BiotechE-commerce & Marketplaces | Portfolio page | ||
| Gjosa provides support for its GS showerhead products, including assistance with installation and troubleshooting issues. | Consumer | Portfolio page | ||
| Hanni sells bodycare products | Healthcare & Biotech | Portfolio page | ||
| Live Tinted sells beauty and skincare products. | Healthcare & Biotech | Portfolio page | ||
| Microphyt develops natural ingredients for nutrition and well-being using microalgae | Healthcare & BiotechFood & Agriculture | Portfolio page | ||
| Prinker enables users to apply customized temporary tattoo, hair color and eyebrow in seconds | Healthcare & BiotechConsumer | Portfolio page | ||
| Rembrand creates and provides advertising solutions that integrate brands into content using AI-powered technology. | Media & EntertainmentAI & Machine Learning | Portfolio page | ||
| Salon Interactive provides a free online store and marketing platform for beauty professionals. | E-commerce & MarketplacesHealthcare & Biotech | Portfolio page | ||
| Sparty, Inc. develops business based on personalization and D2C | Healthcare & Biotech | Portfolio page | ||
| Amazentis develops and sells supplements and skincare products containing Urolithin A | Healthcare & Biotech | Portfolio page | ||
| The company focuses on innovation and research and development of bioactive ingredients and materials | Healthcare & Biotech | Portfolio page | ||
| VLGE captures, generates, and scales real-world environments and human behavior to train, evaluate, and deploy intelligent agents | AI & Machine LearningReal Estate & Construction | Portfolio page |
About this data
site last read 5 Nov 2026- Site
- lorealboldventures.com
- Last read
- 5 Nov 2026
- Watching since
- 6 Nov 2026
- Companies checked
- 20
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