An organization in South Wales that has developed a brand new and modern vary of skincare merchandise, has launched its Sequence A fundraising – sizzling on the heels of signing profitable contracts and launching within the US and forward of a UK rollout.
Pores and skin Logistics, which produces the Platina™ vary of premium, skilled pores and skin remedy merchandise clinically confirmed to ship unparalleled outcomes and designed to enrich and improve the efficacy of excessive vitality light-based skincare remedies, is looking for to lift £1.2 million from institutional traders, enterprise capital or enterprise angels, ideally with expertise and experience within the skilled beauty or medical expertise area. The funding spherical has opened and can shut by the top of Might.
Thus far, the corporate has been funded by its founder shareholders and a mortgage from the Improvement Financial institution of Wales. Nevertheless, with bold enlargement plans within the pipeline, together with a distribution settlement within the US, new contracts within the Center East and an official launch to customers within the UK, it’s looking for new companions to help on its journey.
Pores and skin Logistics from left: Kevin Smith, Founder and CEO; Ceri Stephens, Workplace Supervisor; Jo Matthews, Head of Finance; and Marc Clement, Founder.
The corporate was established in 2020 by Kevin Smith and Marc Clement, two entrepreneurs with a confirmed observe report within the medical expertise area, and three famend specialists: Professor Peter Bjerring, one among Europe’s most outstanding dermatologists; Dr Dianne Quibell, a number one beauty physician primarily based in metro Boston, USA; and Panagis Voutsinas, a chemist and profitable entrepreneur within the cometic, meals and pharmaceutical sectors.
The workforce began the enterprise with the goal of creating a variety of skincare merchandise that had been genuinely efficient for all customers however would additionally complement and improve the consequences of the rising vary of high-energy units used for skincare. A key breakthrough was the event of a mixture of energetic elements in a position to penetrate the epidermal barrier. Moreover, the distinctive partnership created by this workforce has attracted international firms that require companion topicals for his or her units.
Smith and Clement have sturdy observe information on this area. They had been each founders CyDen, a specialist within the design and manufacture of IPL (intense pulsed gentle) hair elimination merchandise to be used at dwelling. That firm has now offered greater than 2.5 million units in 50 territories globally in partnership with P&G and underneath its personal model. Since that enterprise, each have additionally loved success launching and investing in different companies.
Professor Peter Bjerring is the previous Medical Director and Head of the Division of Dermatology on the Molholm Hospital, Denmark. Since 2019 he has served because the Medical Professor on the Division of Dermatology, Aalborg College Hospital. He has revealed greater than 250 scientific papers and contributed with greater than 500 lectures at worldwide congresses and scientific conferences. He’s additionally the Previous President of the European Society for Lasers in Dermatology and Previous Vice President of the European Society for Laser Aesthetic Surgical procedure.
Dianne Quibell is a world-renowned beauty laser surgeon, and aesthetic doctor. She is the Vice President of the American Board of Laser Surgical procedure (since 2008), and Fellow of The American Society for Laser Medication and Surgical procedure. Quibell has lectured nationally and internationally since 2001 and was additionally Assistant Medical Professor of Medication at Harvard Medical Faculty. She privately trains clinicians in aesthetic laser procedures, BOTOX®, fillers, and laser-assisted lipolysis.
Kevin Smith, CEO of Pores and skin Logistics, stated:
“It’s thrilling to be embarking on a brand new journey within the full data that the pores and skin remedy system we’ve got developed will make an actual and tangible distinction to our clients – not like most of the premium merchandise obtainable off the shelf or by means of skilled channels. The workforce we’ve got pulled collectively is world-class of their data of each Dermatology and Laser Surgical procedure additionally providing us a worldwide perspective on the markets we want to goal. We uniquely even have the abilities to conceptualise, develop, clinically consider, manufacture and ship merchandise for white-label companions.
“We’ve got already made a number of breakthroughs, secured some profitable contracts and have momentum. This Sequence A spherical of funding will enable us to take the corporate to the following stage in our goal markets of selection.”
