Two beauty-industry veterans put clinical skincare in a brighter bottle and gave it a smaller price tag. Then a moisturizer helped them outgrow the audience everyone thought they had.
A Miami media company spent two decades inside biohacking's inner circle. Now it grades 1,000+ longevity products against a 72-point rubric - and only sells the ones that survive.
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.
OneSkin is a San Francisco biotech and direct-to-consumer skincare company founded by four Brazilian women scientists who set out to slow skin aging at the molecular level. Its flagship OS-01 peptide - identified from a library of 900+ candidates using computational screening and tested on lab-grown human skin models - targets senescent 'zombie' cells that drive wrinkles, thinning and loss of firmness. The company sells topical 'supplements' for the face, eyes, body and sun protection, and frames skin not as a cosmetic surface but as the body's largest organ and a lever on overall healthspan.
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.