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AI-Native Consumer & SocialSeries AConsumer160 views

Sandbar

Voice-first AI wearable for everyday computing.

Startup snapshot

Stage
Series A
Funding
Series A · $23M · 2026-03-10
Status
published
Updated
Jun 22, 2026
Views
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What they're building

Voice-first AI wearable for everyday computing.

Foundation model usage

Architecture pattern
Real-time voice, Consumer inference, Agentic loops
Defensibility
Workflow lock-in
Model demand
Very high intensity

NYC footprint

NYC location
New York, NY

Funding

Latest funding: Series A · $23M · 2026-03-10. Lead investor: Adjacent; Kindred Ventures.

AI Lab Fit

Good fit for structured outputs, workflow automation, retrieval, and repeat AI-assisted work.

Notes

Sandbar is tagged consumer based on buyer clarity, repeat workflow activity, public activity, and fit with the AI Atlas map.

Hiring

Open roles at Sandbar

17 rolesfrom the company's careers page.

Updated 12h ago

Senior/Staff Software Engineer

EngineeringNew York CityListed Oct 19

Playwright, Chrome DevTools Protocol) Integration security: scoped credentials, secret storage, prompt-injection defenses, audit logging Voice or multimodal assistant experience Developer documentation other engineers have built...

Senior/Staff Security Engineer

EngineeringNew York CityListed Oct 17

Design and ship end-to-end encryption for user data, including key management and keeping search and background processing working on encrypted data Build confidential-computing infrastructure so sensitive processing is isolated...

ML Technical Lead, Agentic Interactions

Machine LearningNew York CityListed Oct 17

Lead architecture, strategy, and tradeoffs for our ML-based products Design and improve user-facing model-based experiences, including agentic control, conversational interactions, and information retrieval.

Senior Mechanical Engineer

HardwareNew York CityListed Oct 14

Define mechanical architecture of new products Own the mechanical design of key parts, subsystems, and full product assemblies, from concept through mass production Build and test prototypes fast; use the results to make clear...

Machine Learning Engineer

Machine LearningNew York CityListed Aug 11

This role involves developing software and machine learning algorithms for use in human computer interface products.

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