# Friend: company

Canonical ID: `22098f52-af91-4aa3-a4dc-168715e1c244`

## Key facts

- **Product:** Friend AI companion pendant ($129); raised ~$2.5M at $50M valuation.

- **Slug:** friend
- **Status:** private
- **Founded:** 2024
- **HQ:** San Francisco, California, USA

## Models

- [Friend](/models/friend-pendant.md) (wearable) (id: `97d9fa67-9355-44c9-9b07-5bff221ce3b9`)

## Supplies to

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_Outbound supply edges. Each appears when verified with at least two strong sources. Sources are append-only; corrections add new sources rather than rewrite history._

## Sources (4)

1. https://friend.com/?page=hardware
2. https://techcrunch.com/2024/07/30/friend-is-an-ai-companion-backed-by-founders-of-solana-perplexity-and-zfellows/
3. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Friend_(product)
4. https://www.tomsguide.com/ai/friend-is-a-dollar99-ai-necklace-that-wants-to-help-you-remake-the-movie-her

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