The Estée Lauder Companies Announce Beauty & You India 2025

The Estée Lauder Companies Inc. (NYSE: EL) yesterday announced the winners of Beauty & You India 2025. This year’s program, supported by the government of India’s boot India and the launch partner Nykaa, emphasized the rising talent that forms the future of beauty in India. Stéphane de la Faverie, president and CEO, the Estée Lauder Companies said: “When we launched beauty and you, our vision was simple, yet powerful – to discover and support visionary entrepreneurs who change India’s beauty landscape. Beauty in India and beyond. Over the past four application cycles, it has drawn almost 2,500 applications from 150+ cities around India and around the world, with the majority of female entrepreneurs. The winners of 2025, mentioned in four categories, were selected for their ideas and products that reflect the dynamics of India’s beauty ecosystem-of-climate-oriented products to incarceration technology and inclusive make-up. Everyone will receive financing, along with mentoring of world experts, national visibility by Startup India, and brand building and distribution support from Nykaa. 2025 Beauty & You India Winners Grow: Best In-Mark Beauty Brand Antinorm, Aparna Saxena, Founder and CEO: For high performance, climate-oriented and multitasking products that replace complicated routines for working women. Imagine: Best beauty concept Mimiq, Harsha Soundararajan, Founder: For inclusive, high performance and prolonged complexion products for people with skin differences, such as Vitiligo. Breakthrough: Best in Innovation Hitech Formulas, Jaspreet Singh Gulati, Founder and Director: For Inkering Technology that produces formulations for pigmentation, anti-aging and antioxidant-driven skin care. Visionary Women’s Award: Recognition of female entrepreneur in partnership with Startup India Sohrai, Khanak Gupta, co-founder: for the delivery of high-performing products using a native ingredient, Mahua, which is acquired by local partnerships that create economic opportunities for tribal communities and women. The 2025 program debuted the Beauty & You Visionary Women’s Award, hosted by the Estée Lauder Companies (ELC) and Startup India. The award builds on a partnership between ELC and Startup India, formalized by a memorandum of understanding with the Government of India’s Department of Promotion of Industrial and Internal Trade (DPIIT), which reflects a shared commitment to support Indian entrepreneurs and women-led startups. Nadine Graf, president of EMEA, UK and Ireland, and emerging markets at the Estée Lauder businesses, said: “The winners of Beauty & You India 2025 reflect the entrepreneurial spirit in the heart of the Estée Lauder companies. Ideas. This year’s launch of the visionary women’s award in collaboration with Startup India is particularly significant, the Warries to all winners and leadership continue to enter the downfall. They carry Bharat’s spirit of innovation to the world. “The 2025 finalists were evaluated by a jury of beauty and business leaders, including Akhil Shrivastava, executive vice president and chief financial officer, Estée Lauder Companies; Rohan Vaziralli, general manager, the Estée Lauder Companies, India; and co-founder, Kay Beauty; and Anchit Nayar, executive director and CEO, Nykaa Beauty. Nayar, chairman, managing director and CEO of Nykaa. is a scale with the fact that they are raising a new standards for Indian beauty on the global, and it will be an edge on the global, and it will be an edge on the global, and it will be an advantage on the global. Nykaa at the forefront of building the country’s beauty ecosystem-of discovery and consumer insights to digital storytelling and omnichannel retail. Through our partnership with the Estée Lauder businesses on the beauty of the NIA, we have been expanded to delay the ecosystem to the Ecosyture-to Nurture. Tools, visibility and guidance they need to scale. Beauty & You India celebrate the creativity and vision of founders who are reformed which can mean beauty for consumers in India and beyond. Alumni has introduced new products, secured venture capital, building partnerships with leading retailers and obtaining national attention on platforms such as Shark Tank India, which strengthens the program’s role as a driver for transformation in the industry. Visit here for more information. Note for the reader: This article is part of Hindustan Times’ promotional consumer connection initiative and is created independently by the brand. Hindustan Times accepts no editorial responsibility for the content.