Forbes January 21, 2026
In 2020, Jonathan Benassaya walked into a dermatologist’s office for a routine skin check—an appointment that took months to secure. The examination lasted barely two minutes. The doctor said he was fine and told him to come back in a year.
But as Benassaya was paying his bill, the doctor happened by and realized that she had forgotten to check beneath his face mask.
There, on his nose, was a dark spot that turned out to be melanoma. But for a stroke of luck, Benassaya reflects, “I would be dead by now.”
That near-miss became the catalyst for SkinBit, an AI-powered total body scanning system Benassaya went on to design to detect skin cancer years before it becomes life-threatening.
Benassaya’s...
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