Unilever Ventures
unileverventures.com Direct + LP
Unilever Ventures is the venture and growth capital arm of Unilever, investing in beauty and wellness brands, commerce, and enabling technologies. It offers flexible capital from $500,000 to $15 million and supports founders with Unilever's global reach and a skilled venture capital team.
Unilever Ventures is a corporate venture arm headquartered in London, United Kingdom. It invests both directly in companies and in funds as a limited partner, from seed to Series C and later, in beauty & Wellness, commerce and B2B/Enterprise Technologies. Its stated cheque size is $500,000 to $15 million.
“We are seeking to back the brands of tomorrow and the technologies that enable them to succeed in large markets.”
— Unilever Ventures, own website
- Layer
- Direct + LP
- Headquarters
- London, United Kingdom
- Invests in
- Europe, North America, Asia
- Sectors
- Beauty & Wellness, Commerce, B2B/Enterprise Technologies
- Cheque size
- $500,000 to $15 million
Team, as Unilever Ventures publishes it
- Olivier Garel Managing Partner
- Stephen Willson Managing Partner
- Pawan Chaturvedi Partner - Asia
- Rachel Harris Partner
- Anna Ohlsson-Baskerville Partner
- Isabelle Hemington Principal
- Devesh Papney Principal
- Gunita Bhasin Investor
- Priyanka Thakkar Investor
- Paul Hart Finance Controller
- Jay Miranda Finance Controller - Funds
- Ted Stotzer Tax Counsel – M&A / Ventures
Names and roles exactly as listed on unileverventures.com. Nothing else about these people is recorded.
Co-invests most often with
Derived from portfolio pages both investors publish themselves: each pair below lists at least one company in common. 6 co-investors found.
- Beringea 1 shared company: blis.com
- Endeit Capital 1 shared company: blis.com
- Maven Capital Partners 1 shared company: blis.com
- GrandBanks Capital 1 shared company: celtra.com
- STG Partners, LLC 1 shared company: celtra.com
- Climate KIC 1 shared company: thewebkitchen.co.uk
Where this comes from
Every fact above was read from a page Unilever Ventures publishes itself. Nothing is taken from third-party databases. Investment activity (deals, co-investors) is not yet recorded.
- https://www.unileverventures.com/name, is_investor, type, hq_country, hq_city, description
- https://www.unileverventures.com/team/layer, invests_in_geographies, people
- https://www.unileverventures.com/about/stage_min, stage_max, sectors, cheque_size, thesis_quote, thesis_quote_page
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