In order to start your business, you have to meet several criteria: you need to have the right idea and the funds to start your business… and often that’s where the problem lies. While it is always possible to be accompanied by a bank, many beauty entrepreneurs decide to turn to private investment funds. Camille Kriebitzsch, co-founder of Eutopia, helps players in the cosmetics industry to grow and sustain their companies. She confided to CosmetiOBS on her investor job.
At only 27 years old, Camille Kriebitzsch already has all the makings of a seasoned businesswoman.
After obtaining a Bac S (with honours and congratulations from the jury, please), she entered the ESCP. After a stint in London and Berlin, she returns to Paris to try her hand at her professional life.
“When I left school, I realized that the world of start-ups fascinated me. I’ve always been interested in the profiles of ambitious, good-willed entrepreneurs who want to change the world in their own way. But I didn’t want to start my own business right away,” she says. “Rather, I wanted to try to get the best out of a project, to have an empirical view of things in order to adopt the right strategy for development. That’s when I saw a job offer for an investment fund. The perfect structure for me, with a scope related to entrepreneurship, but with a very macro vision of the subjects that could interest me, such as marketing or recruitment.”
She joined Otium Capital in 2016, Pierre-Édouard Stérin’s (founder of Smart Box) family office.
“Very quickly, my team was challenged. Pierre-Édouard Stérin trusted us and let us propose a new investment thesis …
