We started it in the summer of 2020, two years and 10 months into the roller coaster journey. So we've raised to date $61 million in a seat round followed by an a round. And Silicon Valley is famously kind of averse to actually throwing money into hardware because it's just, most of the time it ends up being way more difficult than people expect.
The Sunday Times’ tech correspondent Danny Fortson brings on Tamir Berliner and Tomer Kahan, founders of Sightful, to talk about inventing the world’s first “augmented reality” laptop (4:30), the end of the screen (8:10), what they learned from Magic Leap (10:30), making technology disappear (12:00), raising money (18:30), the advantages of starting the company in Israel (21:45), Apple’s big announcement (25:00), getting past the “Glasshole” problem (26:15), their backgrounds (29:00), and selling the first 1,000 laptops (31:30)
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