Post by Nicholas Marquardt

In early 2025, Voice AI systems came out that flirted with passing the Turing Test. It felt like speaking to a real person. I hate screens, I was pumped. Here it is: the new human-machine interface. Fast forward a year. Arnaldo V. and I left our jobs to build the layer between humans and the machines they rely on. Today I'm thrilled to share that we've raised $2M to do it. The round was led by Lakehouse Ventures (their first investment outside the US), with Divergent Capital and Masia, and a brilliant group of angels, including eight founders from across the ecosystem. Too many to name here, but you know who you are, and thank you. We're starting in my backyard: EV charging. Drivers are struggling with chargers that aren’t working (or they just don’t know how to use!). We're building the AI layer that finally hears and helps them. But the world runs on distributed, connected hardware. When it doesn’t work, the person standing in front of it usually isn't an engineer. It's hard to imagine we stop at charging. Press release in the comments.