ANORIA is building the first consumer wearable designed to read emotional state in real time and turn emotional intelligence into a trainable skill. The bracelet continuously surfaces a Flow Score composed of Energy, Mood and Focus, plus contextual prompts that explain why a user feels the way they do and what to do about it. The thesis is that founders, creatives and high performers already track sleep, steps and heart rate, but the underlying driver of their day, their emotional state, is still invisible.
Under the hood sits SOMI, a state-of-mind inference model that fuses roughly 150 audio and biometric signals through a deep neuroscience framework. The bracelet captures continuous physiological data while ambient audio adds context, and the model collapses it all into a single readable score plus interventions. Hardware is a first-class part of the story, with the device positioned as jewellery-grade rather than another plastic fitness tracker.
Founded in 2026 by Michael Belhassen, an ex-Apple hardware product designer who led the iPhone 17 Pro enclosure, ANORIA is in the YC Spring 2026 batch with a five-person team of ex-Apple and ex-Meta engineers and repeat founders. Early prototypes are in user testing and the company is actively hiring. The bet is bold given how hard emotion sensing has historically been to ship at consumer quality, but the founding team profile is unusually strong for a P26 hardware play.