Two years ago, our founders, Maya Elz Davis and Duránd F. Davis Jr., began reimagining LavLabs into something far more ambitious, Labs — 1 Company, 7 Labs. Originally set for a 2030 rollout, that vision was accelerated by demand, urgency, and opportunity. What began as a rebrand became a re-architecture of possibility.

Introducing Labs Companies, Inc. (Labs), an Everything Supercompany: a multilabs human-enhancement technology strata building across artificial intelligence, immersive realities, experimental sciences, blockchain infrastructures, cryptographic finance, human experiences, and frontier hardware technologies. A company where the whole is designed to be greater than the sum of its parts.

Our founders are committed to building Labs in the public — transparently sharing the nature of our deals, and early prototype-versions of what we're building, unless constrained by strategic or legal considerations. As founders and funders, they view this Series Seed as a testament to creative financial modeling and long-term conviction — grounded and reimagined in a belief that Labs is a 100-Year Company in the making.

Today, that grounding and reimagining becomes real.

We're happy to announce that Labs has raised $22.5 million in Series Seed financing, bringing its post-money valuation to $10 billion. This marks Labs’ first external priced equity round and brings total capital raised to $30 million across five rounds, including grant-funding and two pre-seed investments.

We’ve officially entered decacorn territory. 🦄

Led by a Generational Investment Group and Family Office

The financing was led by Jet Investments Group, JET Venture Capital, and JET VC-IRA FUND — via the family office of James E. Thomas III, known as the Thomas Family Estate Company (TFEC). Additional participation came from the founders’ affiliated firms, whose involvement reflects long-standing alignment with Labs’ mission, vision, purpose, and philosophy.







The Deal in the Details

Stephen A. Schwarzman once said, “It’s as easy to do something big as it is to do something small.”

Ben Horowitz recently echoed this in his own way at the 2025 a16z LP Summit:
“It’s just as hard to build a small, inconsequential thing as it is to build a giant world-changing thing. You work the same number of hours. The work is just as hard. It’s just as stressful. So, if you’re going to go through all that, you might as well do something important.”

And like Horowitz also stated of building a firm, seven times over, at Labs we’re doing just that — building across seven Labs, seven times over.

During diligence and negotiations, our founders presented Mr. Thomas, his family and team, with a strategic choice: a large equity entry-percentage with limited anti-dilution protection, or a smaller equity entry-percentage with extreme anti-dilution protection and bonus equity allocation upside down the line. He chose the latter — betting not just on Labs, but on Maya and Duránd’s ability to build a generation-defining company.

What followed was the creation of the FOAD Clause — Fixed Ownership Anti-Dilution — an original equity-protection mechanism that fully adjusts the investor’s position round-by-round, without pro rata payment requirements, until a Labs IPO, $500B post-money valuation, or secondary sale. This deal structure aligns conviction with longevity, and belief with protection.

Under the FOAD framework, the JET entities purchased:

$9,945,000 in Class A Common Stock and Preferred Stock (Jet Investments Group)
$9,945,000 in Class A Common Stock and Preferred Stock (JET Venture Capital)
$110,000 in Class A Common Stock and Preferred Stock (JET VC-IRA FUND)
$2,500,000 in non-dilutive follow-on capital came from our founders' affiliated firms

This totals a current 0.225% equity stake respectively for the JET entities, with an additional 1.775% in Convertible Preferred to be exercised at our upcoming Series A, for which initial conversations are already underway — representing the next step in our long-range roadmap. Upon conversion, the JET entities will hold 2.0% post-Series A ownership — without contributing any additional capital. This structure was important to Mr. Thomas — and to TFEC’s JET entities — aligning with their conviction in owning 2% of a potentially trillion-dollar company: a smaller piece of a much larger pie.

The hybrid nature of the deal — half Preferred, half Common — mirrors the 2009 Yuri Milner "DST Deal" with Facebook, where Milner gave Zuckerberg $200M for 1.96% at a $10B valuation. The logic behind that deal — (and ours) — was to purchase primary dollars in Preferred Stock while buying Common Stock to bring down the dollar cost average of the investment, ensuring both protection and upside.

Not Just Capital — Alignment

This was not a round based on liquidity needs, short-term revenue, or product-specific inflection. Instead, our founders sought a long-horizon partner not constrained by LP liquidity pressure — one who saw beyond the Yuhmmy App, into the architecture of a next-generational company. A company rooted in the future promise of superintelligence and scaling across 7 scientific modalities.

Because our founders, Maya and Duránd, are also funders, they approached this round with investor precision — structuring the deal to reflect both creative finance and firm belief. The FOAD Clause is their testament to building boldly and protecting early trust.

Why Build Across the Sciences?

At Labs, we believe the most important frontier of the future is human health.

Duránd has lived with chronic asthma since birth — hospitalized for months at a time as a child, and still managing its effects today.

Maya has endured musculoskeletal issues specifically related to fascia and experiences hyperemesis gravidarum (HG) during pregnancy.

As a married couple — and parents of nine — they’re building for a future they want their children to inherit. One where technology enhances human existence. One where systems of food, healthcare, and sensory computing are reimagined — which is why they live a clean vegan lifestyle and believe the food, beverage, and consumer industries can be rebuilt, starting with how we taste, transact, and interact — through the world of Yuhmmy.




Fueling What Comes Next

The capital raised in this Series Seed round will be strategically deployed to accelerate Labs’ mission across key dimensions of science, intelligence, infrastructure, immersion, and social human experiences:


Yuhmmy App: The Flagship of Labs’ First Public Emergence

At the center of Labs’ emergence is Yuhmmy App — a social-taste super app pioneering the next frontier of crave culture, taste commerce, and crave communities.


The World’s First Social-Taste Super App™️

Yuhmmy App is the world’s first Social-Taste Super App™️ — a platform for fun, funny, and flavorful audiovisual culinary-conversations.

Yuhmmy as Social-Taste™️

Social-Taste™️ is a new category of connection built on a universal human truth: we all eat, we all drink, we all love flavors, and we all crave.

Where traditional social networking was architected on Moore’s Law — treating people as exponential nodes in a growing network — Web2 positioned individuals as content creators and consumers, with their posts, likes, and shares forming the connective tissue of digital life. In that system, people were the nodes, and content was the product.

Social-Taste flips this framework. It’s not only built around people as digital personas — it’s also built around taste as a daily necessity. By making taste, flavor, craving, and culinary experiences the center of interaction, Social-Taste™️ creates a deeper and more natural layer of engagement — because eating and drinking aren’t optional; they’re essential.

Through Yuhmmy App, members don’t just share updates — they react in real time to tastes, dishes, and sensory experiences. It’s social connection grounded in appetite, audiovisual expression, and elevated by a shared craving to explore, discover, and enjoy the world through flavor.

Yuhmmy as a Super App!

A Super App is a mobile-to-multiple devices ecosystem that integrates a wide range of services — social networking, discovery, payments, e-commerce, and more — into one seamless experience. Pioneered in Asia by platforms like WeChat, Grab, Gojek, and Pinduoduo, Super Apps have redefined how humans engage with everyday life. Pinduoduo, in particular, merged group buying with social commerce, showing the power of community-driven experiences. Yuhmmy App brings this model to the culinary world—making taste, flavor, and cravings conversational while turning commerce into something beautifully social and irresistibly fun.

Built to reimagine how people engage with taste, delight, and discovery, the Yuhmmy App spans a range of unique features:


The 20-Star Taste Experience™️

At the heart of Yuhmmy lies The 20-Star Taste Experience™️ — a rich framework that spans the full spectrum of taste across four “C” categories:

Consumption (Mouthwatering Delights)
Savor what you eat, sip, and indulge in: Food, Drinks, Sweets, Snacks, Recreational Flavors

Culinary (Art of Cooking)
Master the making of every bite: Flavors, Seasonings, Sauces, Recipes, Cuisines, Nutrition, Diets, Preservation, Preparation

Complements (Enhance the Experience)
Elevate every taste with: Condiments, Toppings, Catering, Pairings

Captivation (Irresistible Desires)
Indulge in cravings and deepen sensory connection: Cravings, Sensory


Commercial-Taste Industry™️ (CTI): Ecosystems and Economies

Yuhmmy is pioneering an entirely new economic sector by merging foodtech, fintech, AI, XR and social commerce into a unified set of ecosystems and economies.

Ecosystems

Economies


Yuhmmer: A New Kind of Palate Persona™

A Yuhmmer™ is a member and active participant within the Yuhmmy App — the Social-Taste Super App™ built to turn everyday taste moments into crave content, t-commerce, and crave communities. Yuhmmers™ represent a new type of identity within the Commercial-Taste Industry™, blending creativity, entrepreneurship, education, entertainment, and competition — all through the universal language of taste.


Our evolving short-list of Palate Persona™ taste identities — defining what it means to be a Yuhmmer™:

Palate Personas™


A $1 Trillion Taste Market

Based on 2025 data from Statista, Mordor Intelligence, Grand View Research, Global Data, and Allied Market Research, the global food, beverage, snack, confectionery, and restaurant industries collectively generated over $10 trillion in revenue — yet remain minimally touched by artificial intelligence, particularly when it comes to social systems at scale. Labs’ goal is to change that.

We define this as the $1 Trillion Taste Market Opportunity — a present-day unlock of value through AI transformation of one of the world’s largest, most under-innovated consumer categories.

Through YuhmmyAI and our proprietary Taste Intelligence, LabsAI is bringing contextual-cognition, perception-based computing, and sensorial systems to the taste layer — enabling real-time personalization, dynamic flavor modeling via STAMs (Social-Taste AI Models), STAGs (Social-Taste Agents), and crave-powered behavior prediction across the entire Commercial-Taste Industry (CTI).

From bite to byte, we’re redefining how the world craves, discovers, and transacts flavor.

Yuhmmy App is our flagship product and entry point into this opportunity. It activates Labs’ SAT Framework, delivering:

This integrated structure powers recurring revenue, expression-based advertising, and taste-driven commerce — all within a single platform. The SAT Framework flows directly into our BREMS Stratagems architecture — our proprietary system for orchestrating Business, Revenue, Economic, Monetization, and Sales strategies across taste-touchpoints.

As artificial intelligence reshapes sector after sector, taste is no longer an afterthought — it’s a trillion-dollar frontier. Labs is building the superintelligence infrastructure to lead it.

Yuhmmy App is the first platform to embody Labs’ core research in perception-based intelligence, sensorial systems, contextual-cognition, and real-time micro-interaction.

More than a social network, Yuhmmy App is also the world’s first experiential, real-time taste-based rewarding system, powered by:

PACK — The Taste-Based Participation Protocol


This means, Yuhmmy App gives tasters the ability to have fun, be funny, and flavorful — while turning craveable conversations into income and forging flavor-first communities from street carts to fine dining tables — all while shaping a new kind of identity rooted in taste.


Mission. Vision. Purpose. Philosophy.

At Labs, we believe the future isn’t something we inherit — it’s something we shape.


1 Company, 7 Labs

Each lab is a distinct but interconnected node in a constellation focused on human-enhancements. Together, they make up the foundation of our operating structure and innovation strategy.

​​Labs was born from a belief that technology should elevate human potential, not replace it. Not to disrupt for disruption’s sake — but to design, intelligently and intentionally, for what matters most: our shared human journey, across many modalities of life. In fact, the literal definition of Human-enhancement is the natural, artificial, or technological alteration of the human body in order to enhance physical or mental capabilities. It’s our mission, it’s our DNA and it’s why we exist.

Moving humankind forward™

This Series Seed round marks more than just a financial milestone — it affirms the founding thesis of Labs: that the next great technology company will not simply live inside screens, but extend into the senses, the self, and society. We are building an AI-first human-enhancement technology company designed for the most significant breakthrough in human history — the convergence of intelligence, embodiment, and emotion. While the Yuhmmy App opens version 2.0 this summer, Labs is preparing for a future beyond the confines of the mobile device, where software meets selfhood, and digital systems become sensorial, expressive, and alive.

What’s ahead is not only a product life cycle, but a planetary shift. A $100 Trillion opportunity to utilize superintelligence to reimagine how we live, learn, eat, heal, create, and connect.

This is why we didn’t set out to build a typical tech company. We set out to build a company for humanity — and we mean that in the most personal way —  designed for possibility, built for humankind.


A Family of Labs; 1 Company, 7 Labs

“It’s such a special moment as the world awaits the first 1-person billion dollar AI company; we did it with 2-people.”

— Duránd F. Davis Jr., Founder & CEO
— Maya Elz Davis, Co-Founder & President 












Labs Has a New Homepage: Introducing Labs Website 2.0

Today’s Series Seed announcement also coincides with the debut of Labs Website 2.0 — a bold new digital presence architected by our Co-Founder, Vice Chairwoman, President, and Chief Ecosystem Strategy Officer, Maya E. Davis. This is more than a redesign — it’s a redefining of what a company website must become in this era of human evolution. Every pixel, word, and flow reflects our full-stack RD&R engine, multilabs PSPT ecosystem, and the constellation of our seven core, and cluster labs powering our pursuit of advancing human-enhancement technology. Labs Website 2.0 is a new destination for the mind to wonder — it’s an operating system of imagination for the future we’re building.