Layers (YC F25) — Improve your appearance by measuring, understanding, and tracking…
Improving how you look and feel leads to better outcomes in life (career, relationships, first impressions, opportunities, etc). Improving your health and appearance is an engineering problem - the body can be optimized like any other system
Layers is a Y Combinator company in the Fall 2025 batch. Its directory entry describes it as: Improve your appearance by measuring, understanding, and tracking…. The founder listed is Shivani Patel (Founder/CEO) (Y Combinator directory entry, October 7, 2025).
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Improving how you look and feel leads to better outcomes in life (career, relationships, first impressions, opportunities, etc).
Improving your health and appearance is an engineering problem - the body can be optimized like any other system
Shivani Patel
Founder/CEO
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One of 119 companies held here in Healthcare › Consumer Health and Wellness.
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