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FEATURED

June 26, 2025

Debut Named to the

TIME100 Most Influential

Companies 2025

TIME

FEATURED

October 29, 2025

Biotech Beauty Company 
Debut Brings New Ingredients,
Products To Skincare Market

CNBC

FEATURED

January 27, 2026

Biotech Company 
Debut Launches Skin 
Tightening Ingredient

WWD

May 6, 2026

WWD

Debut Partners With Oterra to Develop Natural Alternative to Red Dye 40

April 22, 2026

VOGUE BUSINESS

4 AI Startups Shaping the Future of Beauty

February 5, 2026

BEAUTYMATTER

Debut’s New Skin-Tightening Ingredient Takes on Ozempic

January 27, 2026

GLOBAL COSMETIC INDUSTRY

AI-Powered DermCeutical EDL: Redefining Skin Tightening in Skin Care

January 27, 2026

WWD

Biotech Company Debut Launches Skin Tightening Ingredient

October 29, 2025

CNBC

Biotech Beauty Company Debut Brings New Ingredients, Products To Skincare Market

September 10, 2025

UC IRVINE

The Rise of Biotech Beauty

September 8, 2025

VOGUE BUSINESS

The Vogue Business 2025 100 Innovators

August 26, 2025

WWD

Biotech Beauty Company Debut Raises $20 Million

August 5, 2025

BEAUTYMATTER

Bursting the Bubble: Inflated Active Ingredient Concentrations Aren’t More Effective

June 26, 2025

TIME

TIME100 Most Influential Companies 2025

May 27, 2025

WWD

How AI Is Actually Reshaping the Future of Beauty Formulation

April 11, 2025

TECH BREW

Biotech Company Says its Cruelty-Free Red Pigment Could Replace a Hue Made With Bugs

April 2, 2025

TIME

For Beauty Products, Natural Isn’t Always Better

March 6, 2025

BeautyMatter

How Debut is Tackling FDA Regulations to Bring its Bio-Carmine to Market

February 27, 2025

BeautyMatter

Beyond the Petri Dish: How Debut is Using AI to Craft the Future of Ingredient Innovation

February 25, 2025

Glossy

Debut Biotech Launches Carmine Pigment Alternative as Vegan Beauty Grows and Red Dye No.3 is Banned

February 25, 2025

Fast Company

Bold Red Lipstick Gets its Color from Crushed Bugs. This Biotech Startup Made a Version That’s Insect-Free

February 19, 2025

Personal Care Insights

100,000 Years in 10 Months: Debut’s AI Tool Advances Biotech Beauty Ingredient Development

November 12, 2024

Beauty Independent

Formula Fig Teams Up with Debut to Launch Biotech-Powered Products in The Professional Channel

October 6, 2024

BeautyMatter

Joshua Britton Transforming Beauty’s Global Supply Chains

August 12, 2024

Fast Company

Why This Beauty Startup Just Picked Up a Major Defense Contract

July 29, 2024

San Diego Business Journal

Debut Launches CMO Business

July 25, 2024

BeautyMatter

The Era of Hero Ingredients in Beauty Hasn’t Even Begun

July 23, 2024

WWD

Biotech Firm Debut is Getting into the Contract Manufacturing Business

July 2, 2024

WWD

L’Oréal and Debut Aim to Develop Biotech Ingredients for Sustainable Beauty

May 28, 2024

WWD

From Biotech to Regenerative Farming: How Skincare Brands Are Pioneering the Future of Formulating

May 23, 2024

Happi

The New Beauty Standard: Potency, Purity & Performance

April 22, 2024

Entrepreneur

He Had a Side Hustle Driving for Uber When a Passenger Gave Him $100,000 – Now His Company Is On Track to Solve a Billion-Dollar Problem

April 19, 2024

Beauty Packaging

Three Biotech Innovations That Are Driving Change in Beauty

January 25, 2024

BeautyMatter

In Beauty, the Opposite of Clean is Not Dirty. It's Science.

December 19, 2023

Global Cosmetic Industry

6 Industry-changing Beauty Biotech Trends for 2024

November 28, 2023

Glossy

Beauty & Wellness Briefing: Biotech Ignites a New Approach to Beauty Product Development

June 8, 2023

Glossy

L’Oréal Invests in Biotech Firm, Betting on a New Generation of Active Ingredients

June 7, 2023

C&EN

Synthetic Biology Firm Debut Raises Series B Led by L’Oréal

June 1, 2023

WWD

L’Oréal to Scale Up Green Chemistry With Debut Biotech

March 6, 2026

NEW YORK TIMES

From Endangered Plants Come Whiffs of Inspiration

January 1, 2026

NATURE

Fancy Smelling Like a Greek Goddess?

July 25, 2025

PERFUMER & FLAVORIST

Debut Launches Plant Cell Biotech Platform for Fragrance Ingredients Without Cultivation

January 4, 2024

Perfumer & Flavorist

Biotech's Radical Transparency Will Safeguard Fragrance

October 19, 2023

WWD

Fresh From L’Oréal Funding, Debut Wants to Tackle Fragrance

Press Releases

May 6, 2026

Debut and Oterra Partner to Develop and Scale Biotech Alternative to Red 40 for Food and Beverage

January 27, 2026

Debut Unveils Biotech Active Delivering In-Office Skin Tightening Results in Topical Skincare

January 12, 2026

Debut Appoints Derek Wanner as Chief Commercial Officer Amid Rapid Growth of Its Formulation Business

August 26, 2025

Debut Raises $20M to Fast-Track AI Ingredient Discovery in Skin Longevity and Grow its Formulation Business in the US and Asia

July 23, 2025

Debut Launches Plant Cell Biotechnology Creating Fragrance Ingredients Without Cultivation; Rare Orris is Inaugural Ingredient

June 27, 2025

Debut Named to TIME's List of the TIME100 Most Influential Companies 2025

February 25, 2025

Debut Scores Breakthrough in Carmine Bioproduction and Unveils Plans to Launch the First-Ever Molecular Replica of the Vibrant Red Pigment

January 28, 2025

Debut Unveils AI-Powered Ingredient Discovery Platform to Fuel Biotech Innovation for All Beauty Brands Globally through Partner KDC/one

November 12, 2024

Debut's BiotechXBeautyLabs™ Enters the Professional Beauty Services Market, Signs First Partnership with Formula Fig

July 23, 2024

Debut Launches BiotechXBeautyLabs™, Giving All Beauty Brands Access to Cutting-Edge Biotech Ingredient and Formulation Innovation

July 2, 2024

Debut Expands Partnership with L'Oréal to Develop and Scale Biotech Ingredients Crucial for Sustainable Beauty

October 19, 2023

Debut Set to Revolutionize the Fragrance Industry With Proprietary Advanced Biomanufacturing, Closes More Than $40 Million in Additional Series B Funding

June 1, 2023

Debut Raises $34M in Series B Funding Led By L'Oréal To Create the Next Generation of High-Performing Active Ingredients

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