Investor profile

L'Oreal

Corporate · Founded 1909 · Paris, France

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Manufactures and sells cosmetic products for women and men worldwide

56 portfolio companies Corporate · $115M invested · 58 investments · Last investment 6/2026

Portfolio companies 56 ↑ 700% 5y

Decacorns 1

Thoroughbreds 0

Fund commitments

The funds L'Oreal backs.

L'Oreal is a limited partner in 11 funds. 3 of them place in the Power Law Investor Ranking, and the best-ranked are shown here.

Exits

L'Oreal’s biggest exits.

Portfolio companies that IPO’d or were acquired at $1B+, with the valuation recorded at exit and — for those still public — their value today. Exit events come from each company’s funding-round history; entry stage from L'Oreal’s transaction record.

Galderma

$16B IPO · 2024

Now $16BHealth

Aesop

$2.5B acquisition · 2023

Fashion

OliX Pharmaceuticals

$36M IPO · 2018

Now $1.5BHealth

Lanvin

$1.5B IPO · 2022

Now $679MFashion

IT Cosmetics

$1.2B acquisition · 2016

Health

Medik8

$1.1B acquisition · 2025

Wellness Beauty

Portfolio analysis

Where L'Oreal’s portfolio is concentrated.

Distribution of portfolio companies by headquarters country, sector, entry stage and current growth stage. Across all 56 portfolio companies. "Stage entered" is the first priced round the investor joined, derived from the investor’s transaction history.

By countryCount

USA18
France8
China5
South Korea5
UK5
Australia3
Switzerland3
Brazil2
Canada2
Denmark1
Germany1
India1

By sectorCount

Wellness Beauty24
Health11
Fashion8
Enterprise Software3
Home Living3
Food2
Marketing2
Chemicals1
Energy1
Hosting1
Media1
Telecom1

By stage enteredCount

Series B+7
Seed5
Series A4

By growth stageCount

Early Growth32
Mature17
Late Growth4
Breakout Stage3

Portfolio market map

Inside L'Oreal’s portfolio.

The 51 highest-funded portfolio companies, of 56 tracked.

Niely Cosmeticos Group

Magic Holdings International

Portfolio founders

Where L'Oreal’s portfolio founders come from.

29 founders across the 56 highest-funded portfolio companies — by current location, university attended, and the companies they worked at before founding. Sourced from the founder records the API links to each portfolio company.

LocationCount

United States9
Australia3
India3
United Kingdom3
China2
France2
Netherlands2
South Korea2
Canada1
Israel1

UniversityCount

INSEAD Business School3
Bordeaux Institute of Technology - ENSMAC2
Harvard University2
University of Bordeaux2
University of Cambridge2
Amity Global Institute,Singapore1
Carnegie Mellon University1
Cornell University1
Harvey Mudd College1
ISIPCA1

Previous companyCount

Johnson & Johnson2
The Man Company2
Accenture1
Bausch Health Companies1
Bendigobank1
Bersin by Deloitte1
BOLDtalks1
ClearCarbon1
Deloitte1
EDF1

How L'Oreal stacks up

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Other corporate and insurance LPs in the Power Law LP ranking, closest to L'Oreal by combined power-law score — Europe first, then the nearest worldwide.

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Cisco

LP rank #212 · United States

13 VC funds backed

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Minnesota Life Insurance Company

LP rank #230 · United States

19 VC funds backed

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Vontobel

LP rank #238 · Switzerland

$126B AUM 10 VC funds backed

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Kapor Center

LP rank #260 · United States

17 VC funds backed

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GSK

LP rank #268 · United Kingdom

8 VC funds backed

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Credit Suisse

LP rank #284 · Switzerland

22 VC funds backed

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Skandia

LP rank #306 · Sweden

9 VC funds backed

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Henkel

LP rank #308 · Germany

3 VC funds backed

Key people

Key people at L'Oreal.

Source: Dealroom next-gen API — investor team endpoint.

Figures on this page are sourced live from the Dealroom next-gen API, joined with Dealroom’s cap-table dataset (estimated holdings) and the Power Law Investor Ranking. News in “Featured in” is drawn from Dealroom’s own coverage — the stories that name this investor, not only those it is the subject of. Market sentiment is omitted until the API exposes it.