The first hardware
built for the AI you already use.
Voice AI is mature. The interface is not. People still pull out a phone, unlock it, open an app, and tap a microphone — to talk. tapLumo collapses that into a single physical press, anywhere in the home or workplace. We are building the default hardware shortcut for the LLM era.
A new category, not a new feature.
Smart speakers proved a household will buy ambient voice hardware — over 400M units shipped in the last decade. They stalled because the voice assistants behind them never got smart enough. LLMs solve that. tapLumo is positioned where the demand already exists, with the intelligence layer that finally justifies it.
Global consumer voice & ambient computing hardware by 2030.
Premium single-purpose AI devices across US, EU, and APAC.
1.2M units at blended $92 ASP across DTC, retail, and B2B channels.
The phone is the wrong interface for voice.
A glass slab demands attention. Voice doesn't. Every workflow that should be a single press — "what's a substitute for buttermilk?", "remind me to call Maya at 4", "translate this for my grandmother" — is buried under three taps and a context switch.
tapLumo wins the moments smart speakers lost: focused, mobile, per-room, per-person. One button, on the fridge, the nightstand, the workbench, the hospital cart.
No screen to compete with. No notifications. No upgrades that change behavior. Trust compounds.
Cloud-routed. We can swap the underlying LLM as the frontier moves — users always get the best brain.
Once tapLumo lives on the fridge, the bedside, the desk, the surface is ours. Competitors fight for an icon on a home screen.
Hardware margin. Software compounding.
Sold DTC and through select retail. Tier-1 contract manufacturer signed, BOM locked at scale.
Premium voices, multi-user households, memory, family plan. 38% pre-order opt-in to free trial.
Hospitality, retail kiosks, healthcare bedside, accessibility. LOIs from three hospitality groups.
Why now, why us.
Cheap, ubiquitous, dumb. Locked to Amazon/Google models that can't reason. Users have stopped upgrading.
Powerful but friction-heavy. Voice is a tap-to-talk feature, not a habit.
Trying to replace the phone. Battery, screen, gestures, ambition — and consumer rejection.
One press. Lives on a surface. Replaces nothing — augments every room. Honest, focused, repeatable.
From one button to a platform.
- 012026 H1
Ship v1 to crowdfunding backers. EU + US.
- 022026 H2
Retail launch with two specialty channels. tapLumo+ GA.
- 032027
v2 hardware (longer battery, on-device wake word). B2B pilots ship.
- 042028
OEM SDK. Third-party surfaces and rooms (auto, kitchen appliances, hotel).
Where the round goes.
- 45%Manufacturing scale-up and tooling for 250k-unit run
- 25%Firmware, voice pipeline, and tapLumo+ engineering
- 20%Go-to-market, retail launch, and brand
- 10%Operations, support, and runway buffer
Hardware-shipped. AI-native.
Founding team has shipped consumer electronics at Nest, Sonos, and Apple, and built production voice ML at OpenAI and Anthropic. Advised by two category-defining consumer hardware founders and the former head of supply chain at a Tier-1 wearable.
Press it once.
You'll see the round.
We're sharing the full deck, financial model, and product roadmap with qualified investors under NDA. Reach out and we'll send it the same day.