# Rachel Harris

> Rachel Harris is a seed investor at Unilever Ventures (London) backing Health Care and Retail. See 8 investments, check sizes, portfolio. Updated Aug 2026.

- Type: Angel Investor
- Fund: [Unilever Ventures](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/unilever-ventures)
- Location: London, United Kingdom
- Total investments: 8
- Last investment: Nov 2025
- Lead investor: 50%
- Last updated: Aug 2026
- LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/rachelharris8

Rachel Harris is a seed investor at Unilever Ventures in London focused on Health Care and Retail. Rachel brings over 20 years’ experience in senior management roles in an early stage beauty business, venture capital investing and corporate finance. After 10 years in Finance, in 2002 Rachel joined Unilever Ventures and spent 5 years working on early stage, cross sector deals. From 2007 to 2013, Rachel held a number of general managementpositions including Group CEO of a beauty company with operations in UK, Spain and Canada. Rachel specialises in Personal Care. Rachel holds a first class honours degree from the University of Sheffield. She is currently an Observer on the Board of Iluminage Beauty and

## Investment focus

### Industry

| Industry | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Health Care | 3 | 38% |
| Retail | 1 | 13% |
| Wellness | 1 | 13% |
| Life Science | 1 | 13% |
| Biotechnology | 1 | 13% |

8 industries tracked in total.

### Stage

| Stage | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Seed | 4 | 50% |
| Series A | 2 | 25% |
| Pre-Seed | 1 | 13% |

### Country

| Country | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| United States | 2 | 25% |
| Australia | 1 | 13% |
| The Netherlands | 1 | 13% |

## Investments

| Company | Description | Amount | Stage | Date | Website |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| Perelel | Perelel is a supplement manufacturer designed for various stages of a woman's reproductive life cycle. | $27M | Series A | Nov 20, 2025 |  |
| indē wild | The First Ever Ayurvedic Beauty Brand, People Powered & Expert Backed. Combining 5000 Years Of Ayurvedic Rituals With Modern Dermatology & Clean Ingredients. | $5M | Seed | Mar 07, 2025 |  |
| Perelel | Perelel is a supplement manufacturer designed for various stages of a woman's reproductive life cycle. | $6M | Series A | Feb 01, 2024 |  |
| Straand | Straand is a retail health and personal care products industry. | $2.6M | Seed | Dec 11, 2023 |  |
| Thesis | Thesis offers personalized brain supplements that cater to all types of brains. They create potent nutritional compounds to improve mental function and provide individualized suggestions depending on their customers' goals and brain chemistry. | $8.4M | Series A | May 02, 2023 |  |
| Thesis | Thesis offers personalized brain supplements that cater to all types of brains. They create potent nutritional compounds to improve mental function and provide individualized suggestions depending on their customers' goals and brain chemistry. | $5.1M | Seed | Apr 24, 2023 |  |
| Straand | Straand is a retail health and personal care products industry. | $1.4M | Pre-Seed | Jan 30, 2023 |  |
| Perelel | Perelel is a supplement manufacturer designed for various stages of a woman's reproductive life cycle. | $4.7M | Seed | Jul 20, 2022 |  |

8 of 8 investments shown.

## Co-investors
- [Willow Growth Partners](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/willow-growth-partners) — VC Fund, 5 deals together
- [REDO Ventures](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/redo-ventures) — VC Fund, 2 deals together
- [Selva Ventures](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/selva-ventures) — VC Fund, 2 deals together
- [ALIVE Israel HealthTech Fund](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/alive-israel-healthtech-fund) — VC Fund, 1 deal together
- [Break Trail Ventures](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/break-trail-ventures) — VC Fund, 1 deal together
- [Evolution VC Partners](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/evolution-corporate-advisors-2) — VC Fund, 1 deal together

## About Unilever Ventures

VC Fund · London, United Kingdom

Unilever Ventures is the venture capital and private equity arm of Unilever. They invest in young, promising companies, accelerating growth by providing access to Unilever’s global ecosystem, assets and expertise. They are looking for tomorrow’s world-beaters in Personal Care and Digital.They provide access to a company with unrivalled globalreach. On any given day, two billion people use Unilever products to look good, feel good and get more out of life. With more than 400 brands focused on health and wellbeing, no company touches so many people’s lives in so many different ways.Unilever Ventures works closely with The Unilever Foundry to provide technology innovators with access to paid pilot projects, mentorship and growth financing.

5 contacts available at Unilever Ventures.

| Name | Title | Profile |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Anna Ohlsson | Partner | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/anna-ohlsson |
| Olivier Garel | Managing Partner | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/olivier-garel |
| Pawan Chaturvedi | Partner | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/pawan-chaturvedi |
| Rachel Harris | Partner | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/rachel-harris |
| Brandon Shainfeld | Unilever Ventures | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/brandon-shainfeld |

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## FAQ

### What does Rachel Harris invest in?

Rachel Harris invests primarily in Health Care, Retail and Wellness startups, most often at Seed and Series A stage. Most of the 8 investments tracked by Shizune back companies in United States. The Investment Focus section breaks down every industry, stage and country in the portfolio.

### When did Rachel Harris last invest?

The most recent investment recorded for Rachel Harris closed in Nov 2025. Shizune tracks 8 investments in total for this profile, including round sizes, stages and portfolio companies, all sourced from confirmed public funding rounds and refreshed monthly.

### Is Shizune's investor data accurate?

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