Sourcerie, which is building a community-driven data platform and personalisation software for the beauty industry, closed a £1.8m pre-seed round last year co-led by Playfair Capital and Vorwerk Ventures. 

A number of notable angels with relevant operational experience participated, including Sandrine Deveaux, EVP Future Retail at Farfetch, Mandeep Singh, exited Co-Founder of Trouva, Renee Parker, Ex Head of Amazon Luxury Beauty, Vanessa Goddevrind, ex EMEA Head of Beauty for McKinsey, Jason Scott, ex Head of Google’s US Startup Ecosystem, and Joe Falter, Co-founder of Zapp and ex Jumia founding team member.