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ZO Skin Health puts the doctor in your daily routine
Zein Obagi’s skincare company sells a system of products, protocols and professional advice. Its premium prices make the case for that guidance worth examining.
Evolved By Nature
Evolved By Nature is a Boston-area biotechnology company that turns discarded silkworm cocoons into a liquid, renewable protein platform called Activated Silk. From that platform it builds a library of natural peptides and biopolymers used as petrochemical-free alternatives across three markets: clean skincare and cosmetics ingredients, biodegradable finishes for leather and performance textiles, and injectable biomaterials for medical aesthetics. Founded in 2013 by silk-chemistry veterans Dr. Gregory Altman and Dr. Rebecca Lacouture, the company has raised roughly $190M including a $120M Series C and counts Chanel among its investors and partners.
BOTALYS
BOTALYS is a Belgian botanical-ingredients company that grows rare medicinal plants, starting with Korean ginseng, inside one of Europe's largest indoor vertical farms. Using a proprietary Biomimetic Indoor Farming method, it recreates the harsh wild conditions that make plants build up active compounds, harvesting ginseng in months rather than years and producing roots with unusually high concentrations of ginsenosides. Its ultra-pure, standardized extracts - led by the HRG80 ginseng ingredient - supply nutraceutical, cosmetic and pharmaceutical companies looking for traceable, contaminant-free botanicals.
MetaNovas AI
MetaNovas (MetaNovas Biotech) is an AI-driven biotech company building a drug and disease discovery platform that compresses the slow, failure-prone front end of R&D. Its stack of proprietary engines - MetaNLP, MetaKG, MetaOmics and MetaPep - reads millions of scientific documents, maps biomedical knowledge, and designs bioactive peptides before anything reaches a lab bench. The company applies that science to longevity beauty, cosmeceuticals, medical aesthetics and functional foods, working with global brands while pursuing novel targets, drug repurposing and precision-formulated consumer health products.