Liz Dorman saw Humane sell to HP for $116M. Now she’s shipping picks and shovels instead of the next Pin.
A platform, not a gadget
Era doesn’t make a gadget — it ships Era OS, an SDK, and a reference dev board for prototyping AI glasses, jewelry, home speakers. Think Android, except the OEMs are indie creators sharing one agent across devices.
Abstract Ventures and BoxGroup led the $9M seed; Collaborative Fund and Mozilla Ventures joined. CTO Alex Ollman came from HP.
What people are building on it
At a New York demo night, builders showed a pendant reciting French trivia, a pocket box that reads your stocks and tells if today’s the day to quit, and a portable air-quality monitor. None wrote their own LLM stack — they wired into Era’s SDK.
The SDK exposes 130+ models from 14+ providers. Point any LLM at the board, route voice, let one agent hop across hardware. External AI agents reach in via Era’s APIs to read sensors, trigger actions, push synthesized speech — your build becomes something Claude or GPT can drive.
After Humane and Rabbit flopped, AI gadgets looked dead. Era’s bet: closed stacks were the problem, not the form factor.
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