Company
AI-hardware startup (San Francisco) founded in 2018 by ex-Apple designers Imran Chaudhri and Bethany Bongiorno; raised about $230M. Maker of the AI Pin. Assets acquired by HP in February 2025 and the AI Pin discontinued.
Based in San Francisco, California, USA · Founded 2018 · 1 model on record
Machine-readable surfaces
- Markdown mirror: /companies/humane.md
- RSS feed: /companies/humane/feed.xml
- JSON-LD: embedded in this page’s head
- REST API: /v1/companies/a3c878b7-ce08-4eee-8459-768acf5a90bb
- Data documentation: /data
Key facts
- Status
- HP acquired Humane's assets (~$116M, Feb 2025); AI Pin servers shut down Feb 28 2025.
- HQ
- San Francisco, California, USA
- Founded
- 2018
- Status
- HP-acquired (assets, Feb 2025); operations wound down
- Type
- both
- ID
a3c878b7-ce08-4eee-8459-768acf5a90bb
Models (1)
- AI Pinwearable
Supplies to
No verified supply relationships on file. Supply-chain coverage is being added across the registry; check back as the seed populates this company’s outbound edges.
Outbound supply edges from this company. Each relationship appears here when verified with at least two strong sources (maker-official / IR / regulatory / standards-body / verified tier-2). Sources are append-only; corrections add new sources rather than rewrite history.
Sources (5)
- https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Humane_Inc.
- https://techcrunch.com/2025/02/18/humanes-ai-pin-is-dead-as-hp-buys-startups-assets-for-116m/
- https://www.axios.com/2025/02/18/humane-ai-pin-shut-down-hp
- https://fortune.com/2025/02/19/hp-humane-deal-ai-pin-shutting-down/
- https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2024-05-22/wearable-ai-startup-humane-is-said-to-explore-potential-sale
Common questions
- What is Humane?
- AI-hardware startup (San Francisco) founded in 2018 by ex-Apple designers Imran Chaudhri and Bethany Bongiorno; raised about $230M. Maker of the AI Pin. Assets acquired by HP in February 2025 and the AI Pin discontinued.
- Where is Humane based?
- Humane is based in San Francisco, California, USA.
- When was Humane founded?
- Humane was founded in 2018.
- What does Humane make?
- Humane has 1 robot model on the DEPLOY registry: AI Pin (Humane builds both physical robots and the AI that runs them).
- Where does Humane operate robots?
- Humane is a robot manufacturer and does not directly operate deployments on the DEPLOY registry. Its products are deployed by customer operators; see the company page for the verified deployment record.