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App-controlled hair-colour lab that dispenses custom formulas on demand — combining precision, convenience and sustainability

London, United KingdomFounded 2021Wellness Beauty
Valuation $50–100M Last recorded · 2025
Headcount <100 Current team size
Total funding $10–50M Disclosed equity funding
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About YUV

yuv® is a London-based beauty-tech startup seeking to overhaul the traditional salon hair-colour experience by merging digital precision with sustainable, on-demand dispensing. Its core offering — the yuv® Lab — comes with an intuitive app that allows professional stylists to mix bespoke colour formulas in seconds, adjusting tones, pH, translucency, and shades to precisely match client desires. Instead of opening full tubes of dye and risking waste, salons receive refillable aluminium cartridges and only pay for the exact grams they use, enabling significant cost savings and reducing chemical waste by up to 35%. The system also includes smart features: usage tracking, automatic restocking, and storage of custom formulas — ensuring consistent results and streamlined inventory for repeat clients. Supported by patented dispensing technology and scientific hair-colour formulations developed by Swiss-based researchers, yuv® aims to deliver salon-grade results while cutting down on unnecessary packaging and environmental impact. With a subscription model for the hardware and app, plus a “pay-as-you-dispense” consumption model, yuv® bridges the gap between traditional salon supplies and modern demand for flexibility, sustainability and operational efficiency. The company positions itself not merely as a supplier, but as a tech-enabled partner to professionals — offering a smarter, greener, and more cost-efficient path for hair colouring.

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At a glance

Status
Operational
Founded
2021
Headquarters
London, United Kingdom
Employees
32
Open positions
None listed
Dealroom signal
71.4/100
Industry
Wellness Beauty
Sector
Wellness Beauty, Outside Tech, Beauty Salons
Client focus
b2b

Funding history

3 recorded events

Company financing events and reported valuations.

Deal typeDateAmountValuationInvestorsSource
SERIES A✓Equity / VC Dec 2025 $13M $50M VNV Global · Nineyards Equity ↗
ANGEL✓Equity / VC Oct 2025 $660K $2.6M Steven Bartlett · Sara Davies ↗
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Growth signals

YUV website traffic

Latest recorded traffic for YUV is 44K monthly website visits, up 144.4% over the last three months. YUV's team declined 11.1% over the past year.

Latest monthly visits44K 3-month web change+144.4% 1-year team growth-11.1%
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Investors

5 investors on the cap table

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Seed2 investors entered at this stage

  • Steven Bartlett
  • Sara Davies

Series A2 investors entered at this stage

  • Nineyards Equity
  • VNV Global

Series B and later1 investor entered at this stage

  • Fresha
Team profiled 1 named & role-tagged
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Global footprint

Workforce and web traffic by country
Workforce by country
3 countries with
team presence
🇬🇧 United Kingdom85.7%
🇺🇸 United States7.1%
🇸🇪 Sweden7.1%
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