Public company, workplace, funding, and market signals
Updated Jul 29, 2026
Potion AI is a San Francisco-based B2B AI software company for beauty and personal care R&D. Its platform helps teams search ingredient libraries, reverse-engineer benchmark formulas, manage ingredient documents, generate compliant formulas, and automate regulatory screening.
Primary product
AI-powered beauty R&D platform for ingredient management, formulation, and compliance
Founded
2019
Headquarters
2261 Market Street #4543, San Francisco, CA 94114, United States
Team size
1-10
Work style
Onsite
Industry
Software Development
Sub-industry
AI-powered beauty formulation and compliance software
Offices
0 jobs at Potion
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Business model
Stage
Seed
Total raised
$6.1M
Latest round
Seed · Oct 2021
Latest amount
$5.3M
Oct 2021
Aug 2021 · Y Combinator
Jul 2019
Founders
Jonathan He
Co-Founder
Investors
Small, in-office San Francisco startup with a security/privacy-first, domain-expert, customer-workflow-oriented culture. Public-facing materials emphasize speed, accuracy, proprietary data ownership, and enterprise readiness.
Work style
Onsite
Compensation
Public engineering postings on Wellfound show $150k-$225k base salary plus 0.5%-2.0% equity for senior frontend and senior full-stack roles. No broader public benefits package was found.
Pricing
Free discovery platform ($0/month) plus contact-sales premium/private-cloud plans
Differentiators
Technology
Customers
Competitors
Estimated revenue
About $3M annually (public profile implies roughly $1M-$10M range)
Estimated monthly visits
7.3K
Traffic estimate as of Apr 2025
CosmeticsDesign · Jan 2026
Trade coverage of the KDC/ONE partnership emphasized Potion AI's domain-specific platform, early deployment in North American labs, and the goal of using AI to surface historical context and regulatory insight without replacing chemist expertise.
Potion AI · Jan 2026
Potion AI announced a multi-year partnership with KDC/ONE to deploy its platform across selected labs, highlighting ingredient discovery, formula generation, and regulatory compliance use cases, plus claims of 10,000+ users across 3,000+ brands/labs.
Beauty Packaging · Jan 2026
Beauty Packaging reported the strategic partnership, noting Potion AI's beauty-specific platform, multi-year rollout, and positioning as a mature tool for formulation and regulatory workflows.