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Humane

ACQUIRED
Humane Inc.
StartupHardware vendor
hu.ma.neHumane Inc.Humane Labs

American defunct consumer electronics startup (San Francisco). Founded 2018 by ex-Apple designer Imran Chaudhri and engineer Bethany Bongiorno. AI Pin product (April 2024, $699) considered one of the biggest AI hardware flops. Raised $230M from Benioff, Altman, Microsoft, OpenAI, LG, Samsung, Salesforce. Acquired by HP for $116M (February 2025) - HP IQ successor.

Founded2018United States
HQSan FranciscoUnited States
Total funding$230000B3 · 2019–2023
Valuation$116M (HP acquisition, February 2025)Acquisition price · 2025
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01 · About

Humane

Founded 2018 · San Francisco, United States

Founders

  • Imran Chaudhri

    Co-founder. Former Human Interface Design Director at Apple (22 years, co-creator of iOS UI, many Apple products). Presenter of the May 2023 TED Talk showcasing the AI Pin. Joined HP IQ after the HP acquisition.

    Distinguished UI designer. At Apple from 1995 to 2016, participated in the design of iPod, iPhone, iPad. Married to Bethany Bongiorno.

  • Bethany Bongiorno

    Co-founder and president. Former Director of Software Engineering at Apple, led software teams for iPad and iOS. Married to Imran Chaudhri.

    Experienced Apple software engineering manager.

02 · What they do

Domain of activity

2 areas · 4 technologies · 1 industries
What they do2Areas
  • AI hardware
  • Edge AI
How they do it4Technologies
  • Multimodal AI
  • LLM
  • Speech AI
  • Edge AI
Who for1Industries
  • Media & entertainment
03 · Geography

Global presence

HQ San Francisco · 1 offices · 2 regions
USANorth America
04 · Metrics

Scale & funding

founded 2018 · Series C
2018founded
~200 employees (peak 2023, before 2024 layoffs)employees
$230Mtotal funding
Series Clatest round
maturedevelopment stage
Privatenot listed
acquiredstatus
$230M
total funding
3 · 2019–2023
Series AJanuary 2019Tiger GlobalEarly Series A round in stealth mode (exact figures not public). Participants: Marc Benioff (Salesforce CEO), Kindred Ventures.
~$30M
Series BSeptember 2021Tiger Global, Kindred VenturesSeptember 2021: $100M in Series B, formal exit from stealth mode. Post-money valuation ~$850M per TechCrunch.
$100M
Series CMarch 2023Kindred Ventures, SoftBank, Microsoft, Qualcomm Ventures, LG, Volvo Cars Tech Fund, Sam Altman, Marc BenioffMarch 2023: Series C $100M @ ~$850M valuation. Participants: SoftBank Group, Microsoft, Qualcomm Ventures, LG Technology Ventures, Volvo Cars Tech Fund, Sam Altman (personally), Marc Benioff. Total funding: $241M by March 2023, reaching $230M+ by November 2023 per Wired.
$100M
06 · Relations

Organizational relations

2 strategic relations

Strategic relations

2
  • Partnership
    Technology partnership with OpenAI (LLM backend for AI Pin) and Microsoft (Azure infrastructure) - announced March 2023 alongside Series C. Sam Altman also a personal investor.
  • Acquired by
    Acquired by HP Inc. for $116 million (February 2025). Includes most of the employees, CosmOS software platform, 300+ patents and IP. Does NOT include the AI Pin device business (discontinued). The team joined the newly formed HP IQ division.
07 · Classification

Profile & metadata

4 classification · 6 external links

Classification

  • Statusacquired
  • Development stagemature
  • Listed onNoprivate
  • Organization typeStartup+ Hardware vendor

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