Labs Companies, Inc., the superintelligence human-enhancement technology company founded by Maya Elz Davis and Duránd F. Davis Jr., announced its $22.5 million Series Seed at a $10 billion post-money valuation.
Although this financing closed four months ago, Labs is announcing it today in parallel with its Series Seed II EDGE Note debt financing round to provide full context for the company’s capital trajectory.
This Series Seed establishes Labs’ “1 Company, 7 Labs” vision, a multidisciplinary system built to pioneer entirely new categories of superintelligence and human-enhancement technologies.
Within this architecture, Yuhmmy App 2.0 is Labs’ flagship product: the World’s 1st Social-Taste Super App where people come together for fun, funny and flavorful culinary conversations around eating, drinking and snacking — at Breakfast, Lunch, Brunch, Dessert and Dinner through audiovisual Tasterooms and ultra short-form Taste Reactions with friends, family, and new connections.
As the flagship, Yuhmmy also serves as the blueprint for how future products will grow, fueled by the combined strength of all seven (7) labs.
Together, these interconnected labs each advance a distinct frontier:
- lab1: Labs Intelligence (superintelligence)
- lab2: Labs Realities (immersive spatial computing)
- lab3: Labs Blocks (blockchain infrastructures)
- lab4: Labs Crypto (cryptographic finance)
- lab5: LabsX (experimental sciences)
- lab6: LavLabs (consumer experiences)
- lab7: Factory5227 (wearables / frontier hardware)
Based on this framework, Yuhmmy App 2.0 originates from lab6: LavLabs, and quickly became fueled by lab1: Labs Intelligence through proprietary Social-Taste AI Models (STAMs) and Social-Taste Agents (STAGs) with YuhmmyAI, and lab2: Labs Realities through Spatial-Taste with Yuhmmy AR/VR and the Yuhmmyverse. This early fusion of consumer experience and AI marks the birthplace of the Social-Taste Graph, and defines new digital categories: Tasteintelligence and Tasteimmersion.
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Over time, Yuhmmy will draw on the full power of all seven (7) labs — from hardware and wearables to blockchain, crypto, immersive realities, and experimental sciences — evolving into a living demonstration of Labs’ superintelligence architecture.
This fall, that vision advances with a major step forward. Yuhmmy App 2.0 will open with initial access for USC and UCLA students, launching with a go-to-market strategy that makes the app available only during mealtimes — Breakfast, Lunch, and Dinner Monday–Saturday, and Brunch, Dinner, and Dessert on Sundays. Outside these windows, Yuhmmy closes, creating rhythm and anticipation that echo the way meals have always anchored human communities.
In its first phase, USC and UCLA students will shape the culture of Yuhmmy by being the first to gather around its digital tables. From there, the community will expand — with students nationwide, along with brands, creators, media, and investors, able to join the waitlist for priority access. The broader vision is to evolve Yuhmmy into a living ritual, where digital and physical tables merge into one shared experience.
Yuhmmy will also introduce a suite of Social-Taste Features — including Taste Reactions, Tasterooms, Tastechat, Cravecash T2T/Taster-to-Taster payments, Taste Sports, Taste Drops and TNPL (Taste Now, Pay Later) that will form the Commercial-Taste Industry (CTI).
Together, these features make Yuhmmy App 2.0 the first consumer expression of Labs’ “1 Company, 7 Labs” vision.
“We’re building a new category called social-taste,” said Duránd F. Davis Jr., Founder, Executive Chairman & CEO of Labs. “We’re also building an entirely new kind of industry—one that runs on what we call commercial-taste.”
“Every lab was built around the belief that technology should serve as an extension of the human senses, human perception and human cognition,” added Maya E. Davis, Co-founder, Vice Chairwoman, President & Chief Ecosystem Strategy Officer (CESO). “This funding brings us closer to reimagining how people crave, create, and connect with taste.”
Source: PRNewswire