#INSTATAKEOVER Next week, VentureLab company Suntribe will be taking over our Instagram account, so we took the opportunity to talk to co-founder Julia Beyer to find out more about the company and what they will be sharing with us.
The Suntribe team; Hampus, Karl and Julia
Hey Julia, can you tell us a bit more about who you are and what inspired you to create Suntribe? Who are the people behind Suntribe and your background?
Hi, I’m Julia and one of the co-founders of Suntribe. What inspired me to create Suntribe together with my friends Karl and Hampus was basically our shared passion for nature and sports. None of us was satisfied with the existing offer of sunscreen: more and more studies prove that they cause harm to coral reefs and disrupt our hormones among other side-effects, and neither did they did convince us when it came to water resistance for when we go surfing for example. We became friends during our master’s studies of entrepreneurship at Lund University and decided to take the matter into our own hands and create a sunscreen that we and others are happy with: sunscreen with only good stuff, completely without any dangerous chemicals.
So what makes your product unique?
What makes our sunscreens unique is that they offer insanely effective sun protection completely based on natural and organic ingredients. Our sunscreens block 97% of UVB rays and provide broad spectrum sun protection from UVA and UVB rays thanks to the mineral UV-filter we use, called zinc oxide. All our ingredients are scientifically validated to be safe for both the environment and our health.
You are a part of VentureLab, the student incubator. How long you have been there and what has it given you?
We have been a part of VentureLab since August 2017. What is has given us is a highly motivating and supportive working environment as well as access to a very valuable network spanning all of Ideon and beyond.
What’s in the future plans for Suntribe?
The future is looking very sunny for Suntribe. 🙂 We’re currently planning the launch of some new products and that will continue to be one of our focuses over the next years. We’re also constantly expanding into new markets to spread the word about sunscreens to markets in Europe and other parts of the world.
What are you going to show us during your Instagram takeover week?
I will take you with me on my sales trip by tuk-tuk here in Sri Lanka, you’ll get to see beaches where people surf wearing Suntribe sunscreen as well as what my life looks like at the moment, eating curry in the sweltering heat. It’ll be fun!
See Suntribe’s latest press release
