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Neura Closes Strategic Funding Round With Animoca Brands, Ne-Yo, and Others to Build Emotional AI With Persistent, User-Owned Memory
Neura, the protocol building the world’s first Emotional AI Economy, has closed a strategic funding round to accelerate development of AI agents with persistent emotional memory and user-owned identity. The round drew leading investors and partners across Web3, AI, and culture — including Animoca Brands, Basics Capital, TBV, Kinetic Kollective, Mario Nawfal, and Grammy Award-winning artist Ne-Yo.
The Missing Layer of AI
Today’s AI is getting smarter every month. But it still forgets you the moment a session ends or you switch devices. It processes what you say — not what you feel. Every conversation starts from zero.
Neura is built to close that gap. Its agents interpret tone and emotional context, remember a user’s emotional history across interactions, and adapt over time to build genuine, long-term relationships. That memory is anchored on-chain and owned by the user — not trapped inside a centralized app, and not reset when the session ends.
 
“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 whole industry is racing on IQ. We believe the next leap is EQ. The smartest tool in the world means nothing if it doesn’t remember who you are. At Neura, your AI understands how you feel — and that memory belongs to you.”
A Three-Phase Roadmap
The new capital will fund Neura’s development across three phases. Neura Social is the consumer app where users interact with emotional AI companions. The Neura AI SDK enables developers to build agents that persist context and emotional state across interactions. And the full Neura Protocol will deliver a decentralized network with verifiable compute and community governance.
Underpinning all three is Neura’s on-chain Memory Ledger — preserving emotional context through privacy-first cryptographic proofs that are portable across models, platforms, and devices.
A Signal From the Culture
The investor base spans Web3 infrastructure, capital markets, and global culture — and the involvement of Ne-Yo, a Grammy Award-winning artist with deep roots in the creator economy and entertainment, sends a clear signal: emotionally intelligent, user-owned AI isn’t just a technical frontier. It’s a cultural one. Growing conviction across these spaces points to Neura as the next major inflection point for both consumer AI adoption and the broader AI economy.
Neura is inviting builders, creators, and the wider community to join early as it builds the Emotional AI Economy.
Learn more at neura-ai.io.
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