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Sandbar, maker of the private voice-enabled Stream ring, discussed its strategy for AI wearables and highlighted its prior $23 million Series A funding

Funding Provisional 45% confidence first seen

Sandbar, which makes the Stream private push-to-talk voice-enabled ring, argued that voice-first, user-controlled designs are key to mainstream adoption for AI wearables. The coverage also points to Sandbar’s fundraising to date, including a reported $23 million Series A led by Adjacent and Kindred Ventures.

Mina Fahmi Sandbar Adjacent GPT-6 Kindred Ventures Stream TechCrunch

The deal

Sandbar $23 million Series A · announced 12 Aug 2026

Investors Adjacent Kindred Ventures

Deal terms as reported in the coverage below.

Source coverage

Why Sandbar thinks it’s voice-enabled ring can avoid the AI hardware graveyard TechCrunch independent Why Stream ring-maker Sandbar says the future of AI wearables is voice TechCrunch independent

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