Belle.ai (legally BelleTorus Corporation) is a Cambridge, Massachusetts company building AI that reads skin from an ordinary smartphone photo. Its Belle 1K Skin AI engine uses geometric image analysis to surface comparable references across more than 1,600 skin conditions and to produce objective severity scores for immune-mediated diseases like psoriasis, eczema, acne, vitiligo and alopecia. The goal is practical: give general practitioners, estheticians and providers in places with few dermatologists a tool to assess, document and track skin at the point of care. The technology is used across more than 60 countries and 1,000-plus provider sites, and the company has drawn contracts and recognition from ARPA-H and CMS.
Ly Tran is the CEO of Belle.ai (BelleTorus Corporation), a Cambridge, Massachusetts computer vision company whose AI reads smartphone photos to help clinicians evaluate more than 1,600 skin conditions across 60-plus countries. He took the helm in 2021 after co-founding AtHoc, the crisis-communications company he built into the top supplier to the U.S. Defense and Homeland Security markets before BlackBerry acquired it in 2015. A Princeton history graduate with a Harvard MBA, Tran pairs a go-to-market operator's instincts with board and investor roles at companies like Jane Technologies and Cirkul.