Lauren Remington Platt
Lauren is the Founder and CEO of Vênsette, the first on-demand beauty service in NYC, Los Angeles, San Francisco, Miami and the Hamptons.
Lauren graduated from Columbia College and worked as a hedge fund analyst when she conceived the idea for Vênsette back in 2011. As a young professional, Lauren struggled to find time for beauty services and set out to create a trusted and vetted platform that would bring prescreened and uniformed hair and makeup professionals to women¹s doorsteps. Vênsette has grown to service thousands of private clientele and celebrities and over 300 luxury brands, corporations and hotels. Exclusively partnering with Saks Fifth Avenue nationally, Vênsette remains the pioneer in on-demand beauty, which aims to reinvent the $200B industry.
Vensette Bio:
Vênsette is the first-to-market on-demand beauty service making a name for itself in the premium space and setting new standards in beauty service. Notable entrepreneur Lauren Remington Platt founded Vênsette in 2011 when she set out to create a mobile-enabled platform that streamlines the discovery of the industry’s top beauty professionals for discerning women balancing their careers and families with demanding social engagements.
Exclusively partnering with Saks Fifth Avenue nationally, Vênsette remains the pioneer in the on-demand beauty space. Vênsette operates in key markets nationwide - New York City, Los Angeles, Miami, San Francisco and the Hamptons. Vênsette has grown to serve thousands of private clients and over 300 corporations, hotels and brands that outsource their internal beauty needs to Vênsette’s platform. New York Magazine named Vênsette the “Best at Home Makeup Service” in their Best of New York 2012 issue. WWD’s Beauty Inc. Magazine featured Vênsette on the November 2012 cover and has credited Vênsette with reinventing the beauty service model. Vênsette has been featured in such publications as The New York Times, Forbes, Wall Street Journal, New York Post, Vogue, Vanity Fair, Harpers Bazaar, Lucky, Elle, Ralph Lauren Magazine, Bloomberg TV and NBC, as well as popular fashion and beauty blogs.
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