Phyla

On Creating A Pain-Free Acne Care Brand

Yug Varma
Founder, Phyla
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Phyla
from San Francisco, California, USA
started February 2014
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Hi! I’m Yug Varma, co-founder, and CEO of Phi Therapeutics and Phyla. Phi’s mission is to change the way we treat chronic bacterial diseases. We are a biotech startup working on the microbiome, which is the microbial community that lives within each of us and keeps us healthy. Our technology uses bacteriophages, nature’s most powerful defense against bacteria, to kill the disease-causing (bad) bacteria while letting the good bacteria thrive and create a more resilient community that protects us. Our current focus is the skin microbiome, to provide a better solution for diseases like acne and eczema that have been underserved by innovation.

Our brand is Phyla, and our first product is an acne care system with a completely new approach. Current acne products may cure your acne some of the time, but they cause skin damage 100% of the time. Benzoyl peroxide is a type of bleach and accelerates aging. Antibiotics result in frequent relapses and dysbiosis and cause increased resistance. And the use of retinoids involves serious medical risks such as birth defects, liver damage, depression, and suicide, which could affect you for the rest of your life. So people and dermatologists have a bunch of bad options, and it’s not their fault because acne has seen no meaningful innovation in nearly 40...

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