Skye, an iPhone app nonetheless in personal testing, desires to alter how individuals work together with AI on their smartphones. And even earlier than it’s launched, it’s already attracted curiosity on-line and from traders and “tens of 1000’s” of customers, based on its creator — an indication that customers may desire a extra AI-aware iPhone.
As a substitute of launching an app or talking to an AI chatbot, the startup is working to design an “agentic homescreen” for the iPhone, utilizing iOS widgets as its interface.
By means of these widgets, Skye would convey a form of ambient intelligence to your machine, providing personalised insights about your native climate, your present context, your well being, and extra, based on a publish from its creator, who goes by signüll on X. The app can even draft e-mail replies, assist you together with your assembly prep, ship reminders, and flag suspicious costs in your financial institution accounts. Its creator additionally claims it may possibly present location-specific suggestions and extra details about native companies, neighborhoods, and sights whilst you’re out and about.
A lot of this information can be pulled in via approved connections granted by the consumer.
The app, which is being constructed by a small workforce from the startup Signull Labs, has already attracted investor consideration, regardless of not but having a public product.
In response to an SEC submitting, the startup has raised north of $3.58 million in pre-seed funding, in a spherical that closed in September 2025. PitchBook additionally at present lists New York-based Signull Labs’ funding together with a post-money valuation of $19.5 million.
Since saying the startup’s plans on X, signüll, whose title Trendster confirmed as Nirav Savjani based on the SEC filings and different paperwork, claims the app has added “tens of 1000’s” of customers to the waitlist. This metric, if correct, would recommend sturdy shopper curiosity in a extra AI-aware iPhone. (And the chance {that a} new sort of AI machine, just like the rumored OpenAI smartphone, may have an opportunity.)
Trendster spoke to signüll, who shared extra concerning the product and funding, underneath the situation of defending his pseudonymity. Trendster declined, as signüll’s title is listed publicly within the SEC filings establishing Signull Labs. (Trendster stated we might nonetheless be comfortable to publish an interview with him when he’s ready to go on the document.)
The founder famous he’s beforehand labored at Google and Meta, although he has no apparent LinkedIn presence. He additionally informed Trendster that Skye’s early backers included a16z (Andreessen Horowitz), True Ventures, SV Angel, and different people. Offline Ventures additionally lists Signull Labs in its on-line portfolio, we discovered.
Since saying Skye, Savjani has appeared on the TBPN podcast as his avatar and has been posting on X about his use of the app.
He informed Trendster that the Skye app plans to launch to its waitlist of customers quickly, although he declined to offer specifics.
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