GoKawiilNirva raises $33M for a voice-only listening pendant
Nirva, founded in 2025 by ex-Meta Reality Labs employees Wei Lyu and Jason Chen along with jewelry designer Hanying Hu, closed a $25 million pre-Series A round. Combined with an earlier $8 million from investors including Lightspeed and South Park Commons, the startup has now raised $33 million total. Its first product is an eight-gram pendant or bracelet with a three-day battery that is designed to listen only to the wearer's own voice, using onboarding voice samples to filter out other speakers.