Egoist Machines raises $3M to make your AI data portable
What's the deal? San Francisco startup Egoist MachinesDealroom has a profile for this one. Try Dealroom → has raised a $3 million seed round to scale AI Passport, a permission-based system for sharing and managing personal data across AI assistants. Y Combinator and Goodwater Capital backed the round, alongside a European family office and scientists from DeepMindDealroom has a profile for this one. Try Dealroom → and Meta.
What's the endgame? Founded by Erin McGurk and Dr. David Khachaturov, the company wants users — not apps — to own their personal data. AI Passport acts as a permission-based context and identity layer, letting people carry their personal context across assistants like ChatGPTDealroom has a profile for this one. Try Dealroom →, ClaudeDealroom has a profile for this one. Try Dealroom →, and Gemini.
Why now? AI Passport recently went live, and the startup bills it as the only way to make personal context portable across major assistants while keeping ownership with the user. The capital will fund scaling the platform and expanding its ecosystem of connected apps.
By the numbers: At $3 million, the round sits in the 74th percentile for seed deal size — modest in absolute terms but above the median for its stage.
The signal: As people spread their lives across competing AI assistants, data portability and ownership are emerging as a distinct layer of the stack. Egoist Machines is betting that users will want a single passport they control, rather than leaving their context locked inside each app that collects it.
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