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Cal AI’s 19-year-old founder just raised $10M for his new AI startup
Publisher description: Zach Yadegari, the teen co-founder of popular Cal AI calorie tracking app, has launched a new personal AI agent startup that competes with Instinct, Muse and Bee.
TechCrunch | Oct 8, 2026 | Julie Bort
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Zach Yadegari, the teen co-founder of calorie tracking app Cal AI, has launched Persona, a new AI agent startup, and already raised $10 million. That makes Persona somewhat more like Bee, the wearable AI device that Amazon acquired in 2025, but Persona’s device differs in several ways, Yadegari tells TechCrunch. Persona doesn’t run its AI model or store user data on the device.
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