Proven Group (YC W18) — PROVEN is using AI, data and personalization to disrupt CPG
Proven is a data powered skincare company that creates personalized skincare products based on more than 47 factors about an individual's skin, genetic background, lifestyle and environment. Our formulations are rooted in the largest beauty database in the world, the proprietary Skin Genome Project, built in-house by Proven's cofounder Amy Yuan, a computational physicist from Stanford.
Proven Group is a Y Combinator company in the Winter 2018 batch. Its directory entry describes it as: PROVEN is using AI, data and personalization to disrupt CPG. The founders listed are Amy Yuan (Founder), Ming Zhao (Founder) (Y Combinator directory entry, October 14, 2017).
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Proven is a data powered skincare company that creates personalized skincare products based on more than 47 factors about an individual's skin, genetic background, lifestyle and environment. Our formulations are rooted in the largest beauty database in the world, the proprietary Skin Genome Project, built in-house by Proven's cofounder Amy Yuan, a computational physicist from Stanford. The database has won MIT's AI Technology of the Year award and encompasses more than 20Million consumer datapoints and thousands of scientific articles on skin. Our challenge now is to tell the story of Proven, and share our industry leading personalized skincare products with the world.
Amy Yuan
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Ming Zhao
Founder
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