Lumeria takes $199 preorders for a phone-mounted AI skin scanner

The YC S26 startup says Lumoscope uses RGB, UV and polarized light to track skin changes, with US shipments expected in September and October.

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Primary source: Y Combinator

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Lumeria is using a $199 sensor to build a proprietary longitudinal skin dataset. Its AI advantage depends on reliable hardware, repeat scanning and useful results across skin tones.

A thermal-camera view of human skin with a Lumeria wearable sensor, displaying complex diagnostic data overlays.

Maryanne Alhallak and Anthea Guo are taking $199 preorders for Lumeria, a Y Combinator Summer 2026 startup building a phone-mounted camera that records changes in a user's skin and feeds the images into an AI recommendation service.…

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