Anoria × YC

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Anoria is a bracelet that reads your emotional state in real time, producing a Flow Score built from your Energy, Mood, and Focus. It runs on SOMI, the company's state-of-mind inference model, which uses a neuroscience framework to correlate 150 audio and biometric signals to surface what you're feeling, why, and what to do about it. The launch video frames the device as a tool for being more present in the moment, and the company is positioning the bracelet as an emotional intelligence trainer for people who treat their state of mind as a working asset. The initial audience is founders and creatives, and the product is two months in, with a handful of users wearing first prototypes in the wild and watching their Flow Score shift across conversations, apps, meetings, and music. That early stage is the reason the launch matters now. The hardware is real and on wrists, the model is generating a single legible score, and Anoria is opening up to a wider pool of testers and hires while the form factor and signal stack are still being shaped. Anoria is led by founder Michael Belhassen, who spent five years designing iPhones at Apple, most recently working on the iPhone 17 Pro enclosure, before leaving to pursue the question of whether human emotion can be scientifically understood and measured. He started Anoria as a solo founder and now works with a five-person team of ex-Apple and ex-Meta engineers and repeat founders, focused on technology that makes self-awareness tangible.

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