Company

Mission

Outer Bio was founded to close the gap between what we can measure in a lab and what actually works in human skin.

Skin is the organ people care about most and understand least. The reason is mundane: outside the body, human skin has only stayed usable for about a week — and the changes that matter, collagen rebuilding, inflammation settling, damage accumulating, take far longer than that. The field has been reading the opening days of a process that plays out over a month. We believe the next generation of effective, safe skincare actives will come from studying compounds in human tissue — not cell lines, not animal models, not computational predictions alone. Our platform makes that possible at a scale that didn’t exist before.

Leadership

Board of Directors

  • Michael Polansky
  • Stefani Germanotta
  • Sara Choi

Backed by early stage investors

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We're building a team of scientists, engineers, and operators who want to work on hard problems with real impact. If that sounds like you, we'd like to hear from you.

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