Healthtech Startup NeoSapien Raises $2 Mn in Seed Funding to Scale AI-Native Devices

The startup aims to expand its AI teams and enhance on-device contextual intelligence, accelerate production, and support its market launch.

Bengaluru-based AI wearable technology startup NeoSapien has raised $2 million in a seed funding round led by venture capital firm Merak Ventures, with support from several notable angel investors.

Founded in 2024 by Dhananjay Yadav and Aryan Yadav, NeoSapien is focused on building AI-native consumer hardware.

Its flagship device, Neo 1, is designed as an always-on personal AI assistant that continuously records, transcribes, and analyzes daily interactions to provide contextual insights and searchable memory features through a companion app.

Further, the device is designed to support real-world and multilingual usability by providing services in more than 100 languages.

In addition to hardware, NeoSapien also plans to develop NeoOS, an AI-native operating system intended to support a broader ecosystem of wearables, including smartwatches, rings, and smart glasses, along with NeoCore, a software development kit (SDK) that seeks to enable third-party applications to build on its intelligence layer.

The startup, which was incubated as part of the first cohort at Scaler Innovation Lab, aims to leverage the fresh capital to expand its AI and engineering teams, enhance on-device contextual intelligence, accelerate production, and support its market launch.

Further, the startup company plans to reduce cognitive load for users by making AI interactions more ambient and less intrusive.

The funding is also expected to help bolster international expansion as the company moves into a scale-up phase.

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