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Katherine Power

MERIT Beauty | Versed Skincare | Avaline Wine | Greycroft | Who What Wear

West Hollywood, California

Work Experience

  • Founder & Chairman

    2020

    MERIT reimagines luxury beauty by making it clean, well-edited and accessible. We believe in responsible luxury, making products safe for body, skin and planet. The antidote to the overwhelming, excessive world of beauty — we simplify what it means to get ready.

2018

  • Founder & Chairman

    2018

    Versed is a clean, community-fueled skincare that is sold direct-to-consumer, and in retail chains like Target, Walmart, Boots (UK), and Shoppers Drug Mart (Canada).

  • Co-Founder, Board of Directors

    2018

    Avaline is clean wine company created by Cameron Diaz and Katherine Power. Avaline produces a range of clean wines made with organic grapes that are full of natural goodness and free from dozens of unwanted and undisclosed extras. It’s wine at its purest, created with discerning drinkers (and friends) in mind, who embrace the pleasure of a whole life and a relaxed approach to wellbeing. www.drinkavaline.com

2023

  • Partner

    2023

    Greycroft is a seed-to-growth venture capital firm that partners with entrepreneurs of all backgrounds to build category-defining companies. The firm has raised over $3 billion in capital and has made over 400 investments since inception. At Greycroft, I lead early stage CPG investing alongside my partner and Greycroft Co-founder, Dana Settle.

  • Operating Partner

    2020

    Sonoma Brands is a private equity firm focused on the growth sectors of the consumer economy. We aim to partner with bold, innovative founders on their way to building the world’s next enduring brands across the physical and digital landscape.

2018

  • Advisor

    2018

    Baby2Baby provides low-income children ages 0-12 years with diapers, clothing and all the basic necessities that every child deserves. By distributing to non-profit partner organizations including homeless and domestic violence shelters, Head Start programs, foster care programs and children’s hospitals, Baby2Baby will serve more than 180,000 children in Los Angeles this year and tens of thousands more across the country through the Baby2Baby National Network

2006 - 2022

  • Co-Founder & Executive Chairman

    2006 - 2022

    Named to Fast Company's Most Innovative Companies list in 2017 and as Digiday's most innovative publisher in 2018, Clique is a global media and consumer brands company that combines the power of data science with its expert editorial team to create content and products that millennial women and Gen Z girls crave. Clique is the parent company of leading digital content site WhoWhatWear.com and was founded in 2006. Over the past three years, Clique has developed a consumer products division, which launched in early 2016 with its first clothing, shoes, and accessories line sold exclusively at Target stores under the Who What Wear brand. With headquarters in Los Angeles, Clique also has offices in New York City, London, and Minneapolis, and has Amazon, Greycroft Partners, BDMI, WndrCo, and others as key investors. Clique Brands was acquired by Future Publishing in July of 2022.

  • Advisor

    2014 - 2015

2004 - 2006

  • West Coast Editor

    2004 - 2006

2004 - 2006

  • West Coast Editor

    2004 - 2006