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Pocket is an AI hardware startup that sells a $129 credit card-sized magnetic recording device that attaches to the back of a phone. It records only when manually activated, then automatically generates speaker-labeled notes, summaries, follow-up emails, and trackable to-dos with no subscription required. Since launching in 2025, it has shipped over 130,000 units with approximately $27 million in annualized revenue.

Seed · $11M · 2026-06

True Anomaly, founded in 2022 in Colorado, develops autonomous spacecraft capable of tracking, monitoring, and collecting data on objects in space to protect U.S. commercial and military interests.

Series D+ · $1.0B · 2026-05 · Valuation $2.2B

Rabbit, founded in 2023 in Los Angeles, develops an AI-based personalized operating system.

Undisclosed · $20M · 2023-10

Tiiny AI (domestic entity Benzhi Activation, Shanghai Xuhui; U.S. entity Tiiny AI Inc., incorporated in 2024) was incubated by the Parallel and Distributed Systems Research Lab (IPADS) at Shanghai Jiao Tong University. Its core technologies include the open-source inference acceleration engine PowerInfer (with ~9,100 stars on GitHub and a SOSP 2024 paper) and TurboSparse sparse activation. Its flagship product, Tiiny AI Pocket, is a 300g mobile-sized on-device AI supercomputer (SoC + dNPU, 190 TOPS INT8) that can run large models of up to 120B parameters offline and is compatible with over 50 open-source models. It has been certified by Guinness World Records as the 'smallest MiniPC capable of running a 100B+ parameter model locally' and was showcased at CES 2026. In March 2026, it raised over $10 million on Kickstarter within 5 hours and a total of approximately $2.95 million (with 2,093 supporters). The starting price is $1,299-1,399, with expected delivery in August 2026 (manufactured by Lcfc with production lines in Vietnam). On July 30, 2026, it announced a Series A funding round of tens of millions of dollars (led by Shunwei, Matrix, Qiuqiu, Yunque, Gobi-ALI HK, BV Baidu Venture, and LightL2F). Previously, in 2025, it had also raised tens of millions of RMB in a seed round led by Guangqi Capital.

Angel · 2026-07

Plaud makes AI note-taking hardware (Plaud Note, Plaud Note Pro, NotePin) that records, transcribes and summarizes meetings and calls for professionals, monetized via software subscriptions. Founded in 2021 by Nathan Xu and co-founders, it operates dual headquarters in San Francisco and Shenzhen and reports more than 2.5 million users in 170+ countries.

AI smart-home hardware (AI voice router / AI NAS / AI compute box)

Angel · 2026-07

Olares (operated by Bytefuture (HK) Limited, formerly ByteTrade Lab) builds Olares OS, an open-source personal AI cloud operating system, and Olares One, local AI hardware with an NVIDIA RTX 5090 mobile GPU, letting users run AI models and always-on agents on hardware they control. The product was renamed from Terminus in August 2024.

$100M

Lingjī Tiāncì, founded on January 20, 2025 in Beijing, China, focuses on AI companion smart hardware for children. Its core product Jollybubu uses a multi-agent interaction system combining a console and plush toy.

Series A · 2026-04