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Outer Biosciences came out of stealth last week. Lady Gaga is on the board — she built it with her fiancé Michael Polansky.
What they do: keep donated human skin alive outside the body for over thirty days. An AI model picks which compounds to test, the tissue gives the answer, and the answer trains the model. Before AI it took 18 months to find a couple of leads. Now it’s one every six weeks.
They license ingredients to the beauty conglomerates. Which is exactly why her board seat makes sense:
→ She’s run a cosmetics company
→ She knows what those buyers actually need
→ She can get a meeting with any of them
And here’s where I think celebrity business building is headed. Phase one was renting the face. Phase two was building the company yourself. Phase three is owning the research layer the whole industry has to buy from.
lady gaga, outer biosciences, michael polansky, haus labs, biotech, ai drug discovery, celebrity investing, beauty industry, cap table, venture capital
#venturecapital #startup #founder #ai #biotech
What they do: keep donated human skin alive outside the body for over thirty days. An AI model picks which compounds to test, the tissue gives the answer, and the answer trains the model. Before AI it took 18 months to find a couple of leads. Now it’s one every six weeks.
They license ingredients to the beauty conglomerates. Which is exactly why her board seat makes sense:
→ She’s run a cosmetics company
→ She knows what those buyers actually need
→ She can get a meeting with any of them
And here’s where I think celebrity business building is headed. Phase one was renting the face. Phase two was building the company yourself. Phase three is owning the research layer the whole industry has to buy from.
lady gaga, outer biosciences, michael polansky, haus labs, biotech, ai drug discovery, celebrity investing, beauty industry, cap table, venture capital
#venturecapital #startup #founder #ai #biotech