Romania’s Kyndred raises €500K from Early Game Ventures to build AI companions
Kyndred, a Romanian startup developing AI companions designedto support users with everyday tasks, has raised €500,000 in a pre-seed roundfrom Early Game Ventures.Founded by serial entrepreneurs Alex ...
Romanian startup Kyndred has secured €500,000 in pre-seed funding from Early Game Ventures to develop AI companions that support users in everyday tasks. Founded by serial entrepreneurs Alex Bararu and Rares Mosescu, Kyndred is creating AI characters with faces, voices, and memories that interact with users in real time, retaining information from previous conversations.
Unlike traditional AI assistants, Kyndred's focus is on building ongoing relationships between users and AI, rather than task-based interactions. The company's first AI companion, Maya, has already garnered over 150 paying customers three months after launch. Early Game Ventures believes AI companions are superior to assistants because they foster relationships and encourage users to engage more consistently with artificial intelligence.
Kyndred plans to use the funding to enhance Maya, create additional AI companions, expand its customer base, and grow its team, currently hiring an AI Engineer and a Product Engineer.
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