MBX (formerly Memebox) is a multi-brand beauty and personal care startup headquartered in San Francisco. The venture-backed company has raised over $190M in funding from prominent investors, including Formation 8 & Group, Goodwater Capital, Johnson & Johnson, Pear VC, Y Combinator, and other Silicon Valley VCs. Memebox operates a portfolio of beauty and personal care brands that are co-developed with strategic partners like Sephora and Ulta, using data-driven insights to identify white space opportunities in the market. The company’s products are made in Korea, leveraging the latest K-beauty innovations in the formula, packaging, and speed-to-market. MBX has offices in San Francisco, Seoul, Shanghai, and Taipei, and its brands include Kaja, I Dew Care, Pony Effect, I’m Meme, and Nooni.
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Location: Taiwan, Taipei
Employees: 201-500
Total raised: $199.3M
Founded date: 2012
Investors 13
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Funding Rounds 5
| Date | Series | Amount | Investors |
| 24.01.2019 | Series D | $39.5M | - |
| 16.12.2016 | Series C | $60M | - |
| 09.08.2016 | Series C | $69.95M | - |
| 13.03.2015 | - | $29.35M | - |
| 09.12.2013 | - | $500K | - |
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| 28.07.2020 | MBX Biosciences gets $34.6M | Drug discovery startup MBX Biosciences has landed $34.6 million in a Series A led by Frazier Healthc... | pitchbook.... |
| 26.09.2019 | At the sixth annual Pear Demo Day, weather balloons, branded... | Pear, a Palo Alto-based seed-stage fund that has made its name through early bets on Guardant Health... | techcrunch... |
| 28.01.2019 | Korean beauty e-commerce startup Memebox bags $35m series D | Premium Memebox, a Korean online beauty marketplace startup, has closed a $35-million Series D round... | dealstreet... |
| 25.01.2019 | Daily funding roundup - January 25th, 2019 | AirWorks Solutions raised $2.3M; RealBlocks raised $3.1M; 7shifts raised $10M AirWorks Solutions: Ai... | vator.tv/n... |
| 24.01.2019 | Memebox Closes $35M Series D Financing | Memebox, a San Francisco, CA-based beauty startup building brands powered by data-driven consumer in... | finsmes.co... |
| 19.06.2018 | Korean beauty startup Memebox relaunches its U.S. e-commerce... | Beauty startup Memebox is relaunching its United States e-commerce business, about one year after pu... | techcrunch... |
| 07.08.2017 | SparkLabs launches its latest accelerator program in Taipei | Accelerator network SparkLabs launches its newest program today in Taipei. Headed by managing partne... | techcrunch... |
| 18.04.2017 | Midas Brink List Lookback -- Where Are They Now? | Since 2011, when TrueBridge Capital Partners first collaborated with Forbes to produce the Midas Lis... | forbes.com... |
| 18.12.2016 | Online Korean beauty retailer Memebox raises $60M more to sh... | Memebox, a Y Combinator startup that sells Korean beauty products in the U.S. and Asia, has raised $... | techcrunch... |
| 17.12.2016 | S Korean cosmetics startup Memebox raises $60m in Series C e... | Premium South Korean cosmetics startup Memebox announced it had raised a $60 million Series C extens... | dealstreet... |
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