Open Vision Engineering announced it has raised $11 million in funding for Pocket, its dedicated AI hardware device for capturing conversations, organizing insights, and helping people stay present. The funding came from Accel, Y Combinator, and several founders, CEOs, and operators, including Vercel founder and CEO Guillermo Rauch, ElevenLabs co-founder Mati Staniszewski, and Opendoor CEO and former Shopify COO Kaz Nejatian. Pocket plans to use the funding to support hiring, especially across design and engineering, and to explore new hardware form factors and continue expanding its product platform. The device automatically transforms conversations into summaries, speaker-attributed notes, draft follow-up emails, and trackable action items. Pocket first gained traction after a concept video released in late 2024 generated thousands of pre-orders, later becoming the most-watched launch of Y Combinator’s Winter 2026 cohort. Pocket officially launched in October 2025 and shipped more than 10,000 devices on launch day, with strong demand from prosumers and enterprise customers including DoorDash. The company reported rapid month-over-month growth reaching more than 50% in several months. By March 2026, Pocket had reached a $27 million annualized revenue run rate and shipped more than 35,000 devices. The company is HIPAA and SOC 2 compliant, uses end-to-end encryption, does not train AI models on customer data, and only records conversations when users explicitly choose