What it sells
AI for product formulation
Business model breakdown
Buyer: who owns the budget?
UnverifiedR&D / formulation chemist leads at beauty brands and contract manufacturers.
Trigger: what makes them buy now?
Receiving a product brief and benchmark and needing to find ingredients, a starter formula and compliance checks fast.
Workflow: what inputs become what output?
Natural-language search across 80,000+ raw materials, reverse-engineer a benchmark INCI list into a starting formula, store ingredient documents in the Vault, run agentic compliance checks.
Economics: what it saves and how it charges
Freemium discovery platform that leads to paid premium "private cloud" offerings (Vault, GenAI formulation, compliance).
Distribution: how it reaches customers
Free signup (Join for free) plus demo requests and partnerships such as kdc/one.
Funding history and coverage
| Round date | Stage | Amount | Investors | Source |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| — | Y Combinator Summer 2021 | — | Y Combinator | ycombinator.com |
Profiles summarize public reporting and company websites. Business-model notes are MaxBC's reading of that material, not confirmed facts; unknowns are left blank rather than guessed. Updated 2026-10-12.