Crowdsourcing @ L’Oréal

Crowdsourcing @ L’Oréal is a dedicated open innovation platform for L’Oréal to engage the innovation communities and seek technology solutions and partnerships to solve business challenges.

About L’Oréal

L’Oréal is the world leader in the cosmetic industry and has been a science and innovation driven company since its creation more than 110 years.

It was created by a startuper, Eugene Schueller, that started in his garage to develop an innovative hair coloration. Innovation and entrepreneurship have been since then in the DNA of L’Oréal with a moto « seize what starts » to Create the Beauty that moves the world.

With a world in constant change and evolution, L’Oréal wants to be at the forefront to create the Future of Beauty that will be sustainable, inclusive.

We believe that new tech & innovative business models are going to profoundly change the beauty consumer experience for the better.

For more information, visit www.loreal.com

About L’Oréal’s Open Innovation

Now, more than ever, we need to identify and capture different external sources of Innovation in order to face this fast-moving world, satisfy our consumers, keep pace with the acceleration of technologies and meet our sustainability objectives.

That is why our international Research Open Innovation team has been structured with a clear focus on Deeptech Startups. It is an incredible ecosystem that fosters disruptive innovation and can create the Future of Beauty.

Our role is to explore game-changing technologies wherever they come from, whatever the initial application, and to select those that could fulfil one of our main challenges. Our objective is to transform the best of science into concepts and the best concepts into beauty and well-being.

The team brings together both scientific (chemistry, biology, green sciences, physics, material sciences, optics, biotechnology...) and business expertises.

 We are dedicated to startup collaborations to make every partnership a successful journey. We are entrepreneurs and we support entrepreneurs!

How to Participate

For new users to the IPI portal, please register for an IPI user account.

Select the challenge statement you are interested to respond to. Prepare your proposal with the required information in PDF and submit it online. If you are responding to multiple challenges, please submit a separate proposal for each challenge statement. Applicants who submit proposals with a complete set of information stand a higher chance of being shortlisted.

Shortlisted applicants will be informed within a month from submission and subsequent meetings will be arranged for further discussions. Successful applicants will have the opportunity to collaborate with our corporate partners to co-develop the proposed solutions.

This crowdsourcing will end on 03 March 2023 at 05:00 pm (GMT +8). For any enquiries on Crowdsourcing @ L’Oréal, please email us at [email protected].