Humane

01 · About

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

External links