Ahmi
Confidential · Investor Brief
Pre-seed · $2.5M

The foundational technology platform for early childhood.

The anti-tablet. One device that replaces the baby monitor, sound machine, audio player and routine hub — and grows with the child from 0 to 6.

Prepared by Dhruv Chadha, Chris Painter & Rashi Kumra

Why now: a public company (Skylight) just validated this category by shipping a feature. We've spent a year shipping the platform — with paying customers already on the board.
The Ahmi device — a 4-in-1 early-childhood hub showing the weekly routine home screen with weather, day streak, and morning, afternoon and evening routines
+40%
Rise in childhood anxiety & depression since 2012, as screens optimized for engagement.
$35B
"AI toys" market racing to ship sycophancy — engagement loops aimed at an undeveloped brain.
20M
US + Canadian households with a child aged 0–6. We start with the most valuable slice.
Ahmi
The only screen designed to be put down. Built for structure and independence — not infinite scroll.
Proven demand

Parents aren't waiting. They're paying.

Most pre-seed hardware can't prove demand. We took real credit cards before the device shipped — and drove acquisition cost down while we did it.

● Live · updated June 2026
$50 refundable deposits on real credit cards
0
Paid reservations
growing daily
0
Waitlist
high-intent parents
0
Blended CAC
down from $150
$150 $60
Blended CAC over first 4 weeks of testing
Not a render — a working device

See Ahmi in action.

This isn't a vision. The device runs today. The most powerful version of this is in your hands on the trip — until then, watch it work.

The moat

Every interaction builds the Child Graph.

A living profile of how each child learns and grows. By age six, Ahmi knows how they learn, what motivates them, and what they're ready for next. No competitor can replicate years of longitudinal data on a specific child.

Focus Learning Routine Emotion Parentinsight Sleep ChildGraph
The compounding asset
Hover any node. Every routine completed, story created, and learning moment feeds a profile that gets more valuable — and more defensible — every single day.
The Child Graph isn't a feature. It's the defensible core — and it's why Ahmi gets harder to leave, not easier, over six years.
Why this team

We've already shipped devices used by millions.

This isn't a first-time team learning hardware on investor money. We've done the hard part — silicon, ODMs, certification, retail, scale — before, at the world's most demanding brands.

Founder & CEO
Dhruv Chadha
Built T-Mobile's SyncUP Kids Watch — the top-selling kids' smartwatch in the US. Led mobile OS at Microsoft (Windows Phone 7 & 8) and connected-car at Stellantis.
Co-founder · Hardware
Chris Painter
20+ years shipping consumer electronics at Sony, Amazon Fire TV, GoPro and T-Mobile. Built the original Amazon streaming device. Not his first rodeo.
Co-founder · Community
Rashi Kumra
Led People & Culture at Salesforce, Uber and Starbucks. Joined Ahmi as a parent who lived the problem firsthand.
SonyAmazon Fire TVGoProT·MobileMicrosoftSalesforceUberStellantisColumbiaMITWaterloo
The model

Hardware is the wedge. Subscription is the engine.

62.5%
Hardware gross margin
85%
SaaS gross margin
6 yrs
LTV lock-in (0–6)

A one-time device replaces $1,500–$2,000 of disconnected gear, then a $15/mo subscription compounds for years at 90% target retention. One platform, one bill, that grows with the child.

$10M
Year 1 revenue
$27M
Year 2 revenue
$60M
Year 3 revenue
The ask

Raising $2.5M to put certified hardware in homes.

Hardware development
40%
Product & engineering
26%
Go-to-market
20%
Operations
14%
What this round buys
Certified hardware in market · 5,000+ active units · unit economics verified · Child Graph data moat established. The milestones that de-risk the seed.
Don't take our word for it

The best way to judge hardware is to hold it.

We'll be in your city with a live, working device — come see Ahmi in person. Here's where we'll be:

📍 Bay Area · dates TBD 📍 Seattle · dates TBD
Book an in-person demo
— Dhruv, Chris & Rashi · dc@ahmi.ai