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The AI Listening to Your Whole Day Is Hiding in a Necklace
Three ex-Meta builders and a celebrity jewelry designer raised $8 million to make a 10-gram pendant that journals your life, tracks your moods, and texts you back. The catch: it only works if you almost never take it off.
Pocket is a San Francisco hardware-and-software startup (YC W26) building a screen-free AI voice recorder that captures real-world conversations. A credit-card-shaped puck with three microphones snaps to the back of a phone, records in-person talks and phone calls offline, and its app returns transcripts, summaries, mind maps and extracted to-dos across 120+ languages. The company reports over 130,000 units sold and raised $11M led by Accel in June 2026.
Bill Near
Bill Near is the founder and CEO of HELIOS, a Portsmouth, New Hampshire sports-technology company that turns hockey development into something you can actually measure. An MIT engineer who captained the school's hockey team, Near pairs an AI-powered sensor that clips to a player's shoulder pads with automated shift video so any skater - youth to pro - can see real numbers on stride speed, acceleration and effort. He built the company in 2018 alongside Hall of Famer Ron Francis, and in October 2025 raised a $2.2M seed round from a syndicate of active NHL executives and players to scale it.