Catherine Balsam-Schwaber
Leo Salvi
Leo Salvi is Co-Founder and Head of Science at Kind to Biome®. Kind to Biome® is the skin microbiome-gentle Seal of Quality available for all types of personal care products. Founded in 2022 with the objective to make all personal care products skin microbiome-gentle within the next 5 years. He holds a master’s degree in Chemistry (MChem) from Durham University and subsequently held a role in pharmaceutical quality control. Prior to founding Kind to Biome®, he worked as a study design specialist for cosmetic product testing.
Ridhi Tariyal
Andrei Rebrov
Sneha Narahalli
Agustina Sartori
Agustina Sartori is the Sr Director of Innovation Experiences & the Managing Director of Prisma Ventures, the technology fund of ULTA Beauty. She joined Ulta Beauty in 2018 after the company’s acquisition of GlamST, the company she was CEO and Founder, to help develop AR experiences that combine augmented reality, artificial intelligence, and machine learning technologies such as GLAMLab. In her dual role at Digital Innovation, she leads a team of engineers, designers, and beauty enthusiasts that develops and experiments with guest-facing emerging technologies to create differentiated guest experiences. She also Managing Director of the newly launched Prisma Ventures. The fund officially launched mid 2022, a Venture Fund, to invest in early-stage startups in the retail technology space. A San Francisco resident, Agustina is originally from Uruguay where she received her Telematics Engineering degree from the University of Montevideo. Throughout her career, she has successfully raised significant capital, went through 500 Startups, Startup Chile and Plug and Play, is an Endeavor entrepreneur, and worked with world-class brands such as L’Oreal, Estee Lauder, Dufry, Clarins, and Neiman Marcus, among others.
Carolina Reis Oliveria
Claire Chang
Having immigrated from Korea to the US when she was 12 years old, Claire is bilingual and bicultural, which has always given her the unique perspective of being both an insider and outsider able to bridge different perspectives. Combining her passions for connecting people and helping them realize their dreams, Claire launched a global accelerator in 2014 which impacted over 200 Korean startups' ability to expand to the US market. In 2018, Claire launched SVBeautyTech, the first-ever independent beauty-tech accelerator, to provide a cohort of mostly female beauty-tech founders access to the Silicon Valley resources previously enjoyed almost exclusively by male, locally networked tech entrepreneurs. Leveraging her global accelerator network and broad brand connections, Claire is excited to work with passionate innovators and disruptors working at the intersection of technology, beauty & wellness.
igniteXL Venturs is a Silicon Valley-based global seed fund investing in game-changing entrepreneurs at the intersection of technology, beauty and wellness. With the advancement of technology and the rise of conscious consumers who demand authenticity, sustainability, transparency, and inclusivity, the wellness industry is undergoing digital and cultural transformation. And that transformation represents excellent investment opportunities to investors with high margins, recurring and engaged customers, with attractive exit opportunities.
Osmaan Shah
Osmaan is the founder and CEO of Formulate, a customization manufacturing platform and consumer brand that offers personalized hair, scalp, and skin care products.
