Investors back Skye’s AI home screen app for iPhone ahead of launch - BERITAJA

Skye, an iPhone app still successful backstage testing, wants to alteration really group interact pinch AI connected their smartphones. And moreover earlier it’s launched, it’s already attracted liking online and from investors and “tens of thousands” of users, according to its creator — a motion that consumers mightiness want a much AI-aware iPhone.

Instead of launching an app aliases speaking to an AI chatbot, the startup is moving to creation an “agentic homescreen” for the iPhone, utilizing iOS widgets arsenic its interface.

Through those widgets, Skye would bring a benignant of ambient intelligence to your device, offering personalized insights about your section weather, your existent context, your health, and more, according to a post from its creator, who goes by signüll connected X. The app could besides draught email replies, thief you pinch your gathering prep, nonstop reminders, and emblem suspicious charges successful your slope accounts. Its creator besides claims it could supply location-specific recommendations and further accusation about section businesses, neighborhoods, and attractions while you’re retired and about.

Much of this information would beryllium pulled successful done authorized connections granted by the user.

The app, which is being built by a mini squad from the startup Signull Labs, has already attracted investor attention, contempt not yet having a nationalist product.

According to an SEC filing, the startup has raised northbound of $3.58 cardinal successful pre-seed funding, successful a information that closed successful September 2025. Pitchbook besides presently lists New York-based Signull Labs’ backing on pinch a post-money valuation of $19.5 million.

Since announcing the startup’s plans connected X, signüll, whose sanction TechCrunch confirmed arsenic Nirav Savjani according to the SEC filings and different documents, claims the app has added “tens of thousands” of users to the waitlist. This metric, if accurate, would propose beardown user liking successful a much AI-aware iPhone. (And potentially, the anticipation that a caller type of AI device, for illustration the rumored OpenAI smartphone, could person a chance.)

TechCrunch said to signüll, who shared much about the merchandise and funding, nether the information of protecting his pseudonymity. TechCrunch declined, arsenic signull’s sanction is listed publically successful the SEC filings establishing Signull Labs. (TechCrunch said we would still beryllium happy to people an question and reply pinch him erstwhile he’s prepared to spell connected the record.)

Image Credits:Skye/Signull Labs

The laminitis noted he’s antecedently worked astatine Google and Meta, though he has nary evident LinkedIn presence. He besides told TechCrunch that Skye’s early backers included a16z (Andreesen Horowitz), True Ventures, SV Angel, and different individuals. Offline Ventures besides lists Signull Labs successful its online portfolio, we found.

Since announcing Skye, Savjani has appeared connected the TBPN podcast arsenic his avatar and has been posting connected X about his usage of the app.

He told TechCrunch that the Skye app plans to motorboat to its waitlist of users soon, though he declined to springiness specifics.