Neura, the protocol building the Emotional AI Economy, has closed a strategic funding round joined by investors including Animoca Brands and Grammy-winning artist Ne-Yo. The company aims to develop AI agents with persistent emotional memory and user-owned identity, addressing the current lack of empathy and memory in AI systems. The new capital will fund a three-phase roadmap for a decentralized network where emotional context is preserved on-chain.
The protocol building the world’s first Emotional AI Economy, Neura, announced the close of a strategic funding round. The round drew leading investors including Animoca Brands, Basics Capital, TBV, Kinetic Kollective, Mario Nawfal, and artist Ne-Yo.
Neura is designed to close a gap in today’s AI, which forgets users after sessions end. Its agents interpret emotional context and remember a user’s emotional history across interactions.
“Emotional intelligence is the missing layer in AI, and memory is what makes it useful — we’re building both,” said Sahin Bayar, CMO of Neura. The company believes the next leap in AI is EQ, not just IQ.
The capital will fund a three-phase roadmap detailed on its website. This includes a consumer app, an AI SDK for developers, and the full decentralized Neura Protocol.
Through Neura’s on-chain Memory Ledger, emotional context is preserved with privacy-first cryptographic proofs. This memory is portable across different models, platforms, and devices, owned by the user.
The backing from investors spanning Web3 and global culture underscores a conviction in emotionally intelligent, user-owned AI. Neura invites builders and creators to join as it develops this new economic layer.
