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MBX

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 opp

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2026-07-15
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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 opp

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MBX is classified as Developer tools from source descriptions and fund-directory context. Similar companies below are ranked from offline product facets and meaningful description overlap; category and source affiliation can only strengthen an existing product match. For lookup-created rows, the profile starts as pending enrichment until deeper source collection runs.

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Developer tools · 6 peers

A deterministic local cluster built from offline product facets and meaningful description terms. Category and selected-institution affiliation provide bounded tie-breaks. Open any peer to continue exploring its cluster.

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shared product terms: back, capital, fund, combinator; same category: Developer tools; shared affiliation: Y Combinator

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shared product terms: back, over, fund, capital; shared affiliation: Y Combinator

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match 60

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shared product terms: brand, over, fund, investor; same category: Developer tools; shared affiliation: Y Combinator

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match 60

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shared product terms: san, francisco, fund, investor; same category: Developer tools; shared affiliation: Y Combinator

Edwin

match 57

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shared product terms: san, francisco, fund, combinator; shared affiliation: Y Combinator

The Flex Company

match 54

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shared product terms: co, care, brand, portfolio; shared product theme: health and clinical care; shared affiliation: Y Combinator