“For decades, the beauty industry has been run by a handful of large, publicly-traded behemoths. In recent years, women entrepreneurs have started modern, tech-enabled companies aimed at filling gaps in a market that’s both enormous — worth $60 billion a year in the U.S. — and staid. They’re making inroads: Lauren Remington Platt’s on-demand hair and makeup company Vênsette, Melody McCloskey’s appointment booking firm StyleSeat and Emily Weiss’s thoroughly modern cosmetics startup Glossier have raised well over $50 million between them.” Read more at Forbes.

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