Lady Gaga’s techie fiancée Michael Polansky has quietly launched a buzzy startup that harvests human pores and skin left over from cosmetic surgery to assist develop super-advanced beauty merchandise.
Polansky, the 42-year outdated entrepreneur and Harvard grad who got engaged to the Mother Monster in 2024, gave particulars on the skin-scrawling enterprise Outer Biosciences in an interview with TechCrunch.
Lady Gaga and Michael Polansky have been engaged since 2024. Getty Images
The agency, which Polansky co-founded with Kyung-Jin Jang, Chris Hinojosa and Stanley King in 2022, sources “full-thickness” pores and skin from surgical procedures and retains the tissue alive for up to a month in order to analysis the how certain mechanisms and molecules have an effect on pores and skin well being, according to its web site.
It’s raised $23 million from main Silicon Valley enterprise companies.
Michael Polansky’s Outer Biosciences sources “full-thickness human skin” for analysis. Instagram/@outerbio
The novel approach makes it doable to research the results of certain chemical compounds that wouldn’t be doable in abnormal human or animal analysis, serving to pharmaceutical and magnificence manufacturers establish key components.
The agency has raised $23 million from main Silicon Valley enterprise companies, and Lady Gaga herself sits on the firm’s board of administrators.
Lady Gaga sits on the agency’s board of administrators. PA Images via Getty Images
Polansky praised his main girl’s enterprise acumen and shed mild on their private and skilled partnership.
The “Bad Romance” singer, 40, launched her own line of “skincare-infused makeup,” Haus Labs, in 2019 and the agency is reportedly thriving.
Outer Biosciences companions with pharmaceutical and magnificence manufacturers, Instagram/@outerbio
Haus Labs by Lady Gaga Triclone Skin Tech Foundation. Haus Labs
“People really haven’t gotten to know a certain side of her publicly … She’s such a brilliant businessperson,” Polansky advised TechCrunch.
Polansky helped run his future wifey’s large worldwide tour that started in July 2025, likening it to a “200-person startup that travels around the world every day.”
The lovebirds got engaged on a mountain climbing journey in April 2024 and are believed to share a residence in unique Marin County outside of San Francisco.
Michael Polansky and Lady Gaga at the “SNL50: The Red Carpet” on Sunday, Feb. 16, 2025. Theo Wargo/NBC via Getty Images
Singer-songwriter and actress Lady Gaga attends the world premiere of “The Devil Wears Prada 2.” AFP via Getty Images
“We went back down and we were just walking back to the room. It was very Michael to ask me if he could ask me. He wanted to know if it was OK to propose before he proposed. I was like, ‘Yes! It’s so OK!’” Lady Gaga, whose actual title is Stefani Germanotta, advised Jimmy Kimmel in October 2024.
The two haven’t given many particulars on their wedding ceremony plans, but Gaga shared on Bruno Mars’ iHeartRadio livestream in March they plan to tie the knot “soon.”