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AI for product formulation

potion.ai
HQ: San Francisco, CA, USA
1-10
B2B

Company research

Public company, workplace, funding, and market signals

Updated Jul 29, 2026

Overview

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

San Francisco, California, United States (3 offices)

Business model

B2B SaaS
freemium
enterprise/private-cloud software
contact-sales premium plan

Funding

Stage

Seed

Total raised

$6.1M

Latest round

Seed · Oct 2021

Latest amount

$5.3M

Seed

Oct 2021

$5.3M

Pre-Seed

Aug 2021 · Y Combinator

$125K

Accelerator/Incubator

Jul 2019

$640K

People & investors

Leadership

Yahya Syed

Co-Founder, CEO

Hejab Malik

Co-Founder, CPO

Alex Stec

Co-Founder, CTO

Founders

Jonathan He

Co-Founder

Investors

776 Ventures
Alexander Gilkes
Alexis Ohanian
Axial
Gwyneth Paltrow
Hawktail
Matt Ocko
Offline Ventures
Tim Young
Tribe Capital
Y Combinator
Zach Bogue

Work & culture

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.

Product & market

Pricing

Free discovery platform ($0/month) plus contact-sales premium/private-cloud plans

Differentiators

  • —Beauty and personal-care-specific AI rather than a generic AI wrapper
  • —Proprietary dataset spanning 80,000+ raw materials and millions of data points
  • —One platform covering ingredient search, reverse engineering, formulation, and compliance
  • —Private-cloud / enterprise data ownership positioning
  • —SOC 2 Type II certification and encryption-focused security posture
  • —AI-ready ingredient vault with document digitization and export workflows
  • —GenAI formulation co-pilot and private customer-trained models

Technology

React.js
Node.js
AWS
API access
Private AI models
SOC 2 Type II controls
GitHub
Sentry
Cloudflare Bot Management
Google Tag Manager
Chakra UI
HTTP/3

Customers

beauty and personal care R&D teams
brands, contract manufacturers, and independent labs
kdc/one labs and innovation hubs
Goodier Cosmetics
Rebrand Skincare
Luluble
RNA Corporation
Olaplex
THG Labs
Herrco Cosmetics
Much Love Cosmetic Labs
Evolv R&D

Competitors

Chemdex
Genie
Kosmetikon
Cosmetri
Worldover
Formulate Studio
Benchling
MasterControl

Scale & contact

Estimated revenue

About $3M annually (public profile implies roughly $1M-$10M range)

Estimated monthly visits

7.3K

Traffic estimate as of Apr 2025

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Latest news

KDC/ONE partners with Potion AI for R&D revamp

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.

KDC/ONE and Potion AI Announce Strategic Partnership to Bring AI-Powered Formulation and Regulatory Compliance to KDC/ONE’s Global R&D Network

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.

Kdc/one & Potion AI Announce Strategic Partnership

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.

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