Retail ecommerce

Proven Group

Website
Founded 2018Origin source ↗Checked 2026-09-15

Overview

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.

Company description As recorded 2026-11-08
Retail ecommerceConsumersConsumerHardware sales

Founders & team

Previously Proven

Company history As recorded 2026-11-08

Amy Yuan

Founder

Trained in large-scale computational physics. Co-founded and scaled an AI-powered personalization company to $150M+ in total revenue. Still building, looking for the next hard problem in AI.

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Founder profile As recorded 2026-09-15
40team members reported
Source-reported As recorded 2026-09-15

Founded 2018 · Source

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Last website check2026-11-11
Location · source statedSan Francisco, CA, USA; Remote
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