Why Unilever Ventures?
Expertise We have a proven team of business venturing professionals who have helped build businesses during the difficult early stages of development, both in consumer-facing and technology-led environments. The team take a proactive approach to investments, working closely with management teams to help shape the future of the business and build high quality management teams that can deliver successful growth. Backed by Unilever We are fully backed by Unilever (www.unilever.com), but work completely independently from its core business, and this provides numerous advantages both to our team and to our portfolio companies. These include: Brands – Unilever has some of the strongest consumer brands in the world. At Unilever Ventures we can access these brands and leverage them behind new technologies or business ventures. Several of our businesses have been developed in this way, for example Dove Spa and the Ponds Institute. Technology – Unilever Ventures has access to Unilevers impressiv
