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PIN AI
Open platform for personal AI: private, on-device AI agents powered by your own data, built on Ethereum.
PIN AI (Personal Intelligence Network) is building an open platform for personal AI agents that run on individual user data in a privacy-preserving, on-device/trusted environment, positioned as an alternative to Big Tech assistants. It raised a $10M round from investors including a16z CSX and Hack VC. Co-founder and Chief Scientist Qingyun (Bill) Sun holds a Stanford PhD and was an early Google Brain researcher.
Funding
$10M total raised
Notable investors
- a16z CSX
- Hack VC
- Blockchain Builders Fund (Stanford Blockchain Accelerator)
- Illia Polosukhin (Transformer paper author; Founder, NEAR Protocol)
- Anagram/Lily Liu (President, SOL Foundation)
- Symbolic Capital (Co-Founder, Polygon)
- Evan Cheng (CEO, Mysten Labs/SUI)
- dcbuilder (Worldcoin Foundation)
- Foresight Ventures (parent company of the Block)
- Nomad Capital
- Tim Shi (Co-Founder, Cresta)
- Ben Fisch (CEO, Espresso)
- Scott Moore (Co-Founder, Gitcoin)
- Alumni Ventures
- and Dispersion Capital