# Blue

> Blue is a Y Combinator-backed (S25) startup building a voice-first way to operate an iPhone. Its shipping product is the Blue Smart Dictation Keyboard, an iOS keyboard that turns spoken thoughts into polished text and is pitched as roughly four times faster than typing. The longer-term product is a small USB-C dongle plus app that lets you speak a task - send a follow-up, book something, reply to a thread - and have Blue open the right app and carry it out hands-free. The founding team previously worked on Google Assistant, Google DeepMind, and Apple Vision Pro.

- **Founded:** 2024
- **Headquarters:** San Francisco, California, United States
- **Founders:** Omar Abdelaziz (Co-founder & CEO), Peter Krogh (Co-founder), Muhammad Farhan Hossain (Co-founder)
- **Team size:** 6-13
- **Products:** Blue Smart Dictation Keyboard, Blue voice assistant (USB-C dongle + app)
- **Notable:** Accepted into Y Combinator's Summer 2025 batch., Shipped the Blue Smart Dictation Keyboard to the App Store., Founding team with prior work on Google Assistant's LLM transition, Google DeepMind's Gemini Live, and Apple Vision Pro.

## Products & services

- **Blue Smart Dictation Keyboard** — An iOS keyboard that converts spoken thoughts into polished written text, marketed as roughly 4x faster than typing and powered by OpenAI's ChatGPT. Available on the App Store.
- **Blue voice assistant (USB-C dongle + app)** — A small USB-C dongle paired with an iPhone app: speak a task and Blue opens the relevant app and completes it - starting with messaging and email. Positioned as a next-generation alternative to Siri.

## Achievements

- Accepted into Y Combinator's Summer 2025 batch.
- Shipped the Blue Smart Dictation Keyboard to the App Store.
- Founding team with prior work on Google Assistant's LLM transition, Google DeepMind's Gemini Live, and Apple Vision Pro.
- CEO holds one of the earliest patents in LLM-based computer-use.

## Latest updates

- **2025-08** — Blue announced as part of Y Combinator's Summer 2025 batch and began recruiting for early access at heyblue.com.
- **2025-09** — Launched the Blue Smart Dictation Keyboard for iPhone, powered by ChatGPT.

## Links

- Website: https://heyblue.com
- LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/company/heyblue
- Twitter/X: https://x.com/heybluex
- YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ED3e1ODMH3g

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Last updated: 2026-07-31