Overview
- The Series B was announced on Tuesday with backing from Sequoia and Spark, alongside other undisclosed investors.
- A selective early beta of the Sesame iOS app is live, offering testers the ability to search, text and think, with discussions limited to official beta forums.
- Sesame plans to embed its conversational agent in lightweight, fashion-forward glasses, though the company has not shared a hardware availability timeline.
- Early public demos of the AI voices Maya and Miles drew more than one million users who generated over five million minutes of conversation, according to Sequoia.
- The startup is led by Oculus co-founder Brendan Iribe and former Ubiquity6 CTO Ankit Kumar, with veterans from Oculus and Meta in key product and operations roles.