JUNOCO

JUNOCO is a DTC sustainable beauty brand group founded in 2018 in San Francisco by a Chinese founder, whose first skincare line hit it big with a zero-microplastic "10-ingredient cleansing balm" that sold 500,000 units in its first year and became the US category's online sales leader, per a 峰瑞资本 (FreeS Fund) piece. The company runs an omnichannel model — combining data-driven online DTC operations with offline beauty retail presence — and leans into sustainability as positioning, with products like its upcycled-ingredient, waterless-formulation "Clarifying Powder" cleansing powder. In August 2022 it closed a $6.3 million Series A led by Yuanjing Capital, with angel investor FreeS Fund doubling down, and said it aims to become a next-generation sustainable skincare brand management company. One caveat on naming: FreeS's corpus also covers "JUNO / Juno&Co.," a DTC color-cosmetics brand that recapped its 2020 618 campaign in China, but the material doesn't explicitly state whether it and JUNOCO are the same entity — elsewhere can't confirm the connection.