Renatus Collective shortlisted for Innovative Company of the Year at the AIB Business Eye Awards 2026

Renatus Collective Group has been named one of ten finalists for Innovative Company of the Year at the AIB Business Eye Awards 2026, one of Northern Ireland's leading business awards.

The shortlist is dominated by software, technology and therapeutics companies, many with teams and funding well beyond the group's. Renatus Collective's place on it reflects a different kind of innovation: spotting a gap nobody was addressing and building for it.

Hundreds of thousands of people in the UK are losing weight on GLP-1 medication, and almost nobody was talking about what rapid weight loss does to skin. The group's skincare brand, ElastiK° Skin, was built for exactly that. Its community has since shown that the need is wider. Perimenopause and menopause change skin just as quickly.

Renatus Collective also runs My Journey with Marc, a health and wellbeing community of more than 450,000 people and a UK Top 10 Apple Podcasts health show, This Is My Journey.

“Innovation isn't only a lab or a line of code. For us it started with a gap. I lost nine stone, and nobody was building for what that did to my skin. Our community tells us every day what they need next, and we build for it. To be on a list like this, alongside companies doing remarkable things, is a real moment for a young Northern Irish business.”

Marc McKee, Founder and Director, Renatus Collective Group

Winners will be announced at the awards ceremony at the ICC Belfast on Thursday 22 October 2026.

Read more: AIB Business Eye Awards 2026 shortlist