Brilliant Labs Raises US$3.0M in Seed Funding

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Brilliant Labs Founder and CEO Bobak Tavangar demonstrates the firm’s open-source AR device Monocle at CES

Brilliant Labs, a Singapore-based developer of generative AI-embedded AR glasses, raised US$3.0M in Seed funding.

The round was led by Brendan Iribe, co-founder of Oculus, Adam Cheyer, co-founder of Siri, Eric Migicovsky, founder of Pebble, Steve Sarowitz, founder of Paylocity and Chairman of Wayfarer Studios, Nirav Patel, former core team member at Oculus and founder of Framework, Francisco Tolmasky, member of the original iphone team, Plug and Play Ventures, Moveon Technologies, among others.

The company intends to use the funds to expand operations and its development efforts.

Founded in 2019 by CEO Bobak Tavangar, along with co-founders Raj Nakarja and Ben Heald, Brilliant Labs is focused on human-device interactions with the development of generative AI-embedded AR glasses. The company’s flagship product, Monocle, introduces an eponymous, open-source wearable AR glasses designed to embrace AI-enabled applications, designed to augment human productivity and creativity. With an embedded microphone, computer vision-ready camera, display and hackable FPGA accelerator chip, developers can build applications that directly interface with ChatGPT or other generative AI apps, to enable the AI-enhanced digital world to feel more naturally embedded within the purview of how people see and experience the physical world.

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28/06/2023