A mysterious wearable device from Humane, a startup with former Apple execs in charge, rose $230 million in funding so far.
Published Mar 9th, 2023 3:43PM ESTWe’ve been talking about iPhone “killers” ever since Steve Jobs famously unveiled the first handset in 2007. Initially, those were rival smartphones, and none managed to kill the iPhone. But more than 15 years later,. Two former high-ranking Apple execs might have a new attempt at an iPhone killer on their hands, one worth $230 million right now, with Microsoft and OpenAI being the latest investors.
Husband and wife team Imran Chaudhri and Bethany Bongiorno are former Apple execs who co-founded the startup. They left their positions at Apple in 2016. Chaudhri was the director of design for Apple’s human interface team. Bongiorno was a director for Apple’s operating systems team. provides a low-quality pitch slide deck for Humane’s product that leaked in 2021. The slides show a wearable device that lets users communicate and take photos or videos.communicators that are always on and always connected to AI for answers. The difference is that Humane’s product would also incorporate cameras.
How is this Humane gadget an iPhone killer? The same pitch deck says the unnamed wearable could take over “micro-transactions that once required a smartphone.” That’s not a reference to mobile payments or in-app purchases. But actions that would otherwise require an iPhone or Android device
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