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Shapes
535 Mission St., 14th Floor
San Francisco, CA 94105
https://talk.shapes.inc/

Shapes.inc is the only app in the world where you can talk to AI with friends. Shapes enable new human friendships and help you deepen your existing human relationships by facilitating conversations through AI agents in group chats. Users have already created 3M+ AI agents (called Shapes) to add into these group chats. The company has rapidly grown to 400k+ monthly active users (a six-fold increase in Q1 2026) with users spending more than 13M+ engaged minutes in March 2026 - thousands spend 2-4 hours per day in the app. Founded by Anushk Mittal and Noorie Dhingra in 2021, Shapes was one of the first companies to commercialize GPT-3 and has been actively researching ways to enable social interactions with AGI since then.

Key Contact
Name
Anushk Mittal
Title
CEO
E-Mail
Funding Events

Date
Amount
Type
Investors
Valuation
04/29/26 $8,000,000 Seed AI Capital Partners
AI Grant
Lightspeed Venture Partners
undisclosed