Monogram

Cofounder/CEO of @monogram_ai. Previously founder/CEO of @udemy (NASDAQ $UDMY) and @carbonhealth. IMO medalist. Help @weaverobotics on the side.

Monogram is a consumer AI app that generates a fresh visual, interactive interface for every query instead of returning a wall of text. Ask it to surface TV shows with new seasons this year, adapt a Turkish stuffed eggplant recipe to use lentils instead of ground beef, or plan a weekend trip to Yosemite with kids, and it assembles layouts on the fly, cards, calendars, option pickers, hotel lists, day by day itineraries, without relying on pre-built templates for any category. It can also hand off into other apps installed on your phone when a task belongs somewhere else. The launch matters because it is a concrete bet against chat as the default surface for consumer AI. Founder and CEO Eren Bali previously started Udemy (NASDAQ: UDMY) and Carbon Health, and is an IMO medalist , and he co-founded Monogram with Edouard Tabet and Murat Akbal . The pitch draws on Bali's time at Airbnb, where categories like travel never fit neatly into a text box, and on the team's view that generative UI is the missing layer that turns capable frontier models into something a mainstream user can actually navigate. Alongside the product, the company is announcing a $40M seed round led by DST and Lux Capital, unusually large for a seed and a signal of investor conviction in the generative UI thesis. For founders and operators watching the consumer AI stack, Monogram is worth tracking as an early attempt to define what comes after the chatbox, with a team that has taken two prior companies to real scale.

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