Aina Raises $5.5M for AI Hardware Interface

Aina, founded by former Ultrahuman VP Apoorv Shankar, raised $5.5 million in a seed round co-led by Redstart Labs and 360 ONE. The Bengaluru- and San Francisco-based startup builds context-aware AI hardware interfaces. Its first product, Dune, is a programmable three-key keypad that changes functions based on the application in use.