AI-Powered Beauty Advice at Scale
Specialist AI agents transforming the $677B beauty industry.
Beauty consumers waste an estimated $765 and nine days of research annually on the wrong skincare products — stuck in a costly trial-and-error loop driven by overwhelming choice and a lack of credible, personalised advice. For brands and retailers, this translates into rising acquisition costs, poor retention, and eroding lifetime value.
Renude solves this on both sides. Their AI Skin Assistant analyses skin through computer vision, recommends products using machine learning trained on a proprietary dataset of over 4 million data points, and answers consumer questions in real time. Founded in 2020 by Pippa Harman, a cosmetic scientist with over a decade of experience at companies like Boots and Beauty Pie, and Catherine Nisson, a data scientist, Renude has built what WGSN has recognised as the go-to technology provider for the emerging skin concierge trend.
Learn more at renude.co
Fund
Amigos 1
Co-investors
Antler Access, Bridge Ventures, Founders Factory
Founders
Pippa Harman, Catherine Nilsson
CEO
Pippa Harman
"We invested in Renude because they've built something rare — genuine domain expertise baked into AI, not just AI wrapped around a generic model."
Renude's proprietary dataset, built from tens of thousands of real skin assessments labelled by dermatologists and estheticians, gives them a defensible edge that generic AI tools cannot replicate. We see Renude capitalising on the convergence of conversational AI adoption and the shift to beauty e-commerce. We're excited to back a team that combines deep skincare science with commercial execution at exactly the right moment.