Labs Raises $22.5M in Series Seed Funding at $10B Valuation to Lead in Human-Enhancement Technology
Two years ago, our founders, Maya Elz Davis and Durand 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.
Labs Companies, Inc. (Labs) is 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.
Today, that reimagining becomes real.
We’re honored to announce that Labs has raised $22.5 million in Series Seed financing, bringing our post-money valuation to $10 billion. This represents Labs’ first external priced equity round and brings our total capital raised to $30 million across seven rounds.
We’ve officially entered decacorn territory 🦄
Led by a Generational Investment Group & Family Office
This 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).
This round also includes additional investment from our founders’ affiliated firms whose involvement reflects long-standing alignment with Labs’ mission, vision, purpose and philosophy.
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, and immersion and social human experiences:
AI & Contextual Cognition
Scale our superintelligence research by expanding STAMs (Social-Taste AI Models) and STAGs (Social-Taste Agents), while accelerating deployment of LaLaMo, Lamimo, and Lasamo — our family of foundational models powering perception, cognition, and sensorial systems.
Product Development
Advance core product innovation within the Yuhmmy App, integrating real-time YuhmmyAI personalization and enhancing member experiences that connect taste, identity, and social engagement.
Hardware Systems
Drive the RD&R of projectLARG (Labs AR Gadgets) and projectPARG (Palate smARt Gadgets), foundational to Labs' sensory computing stack and future face-wearable technologies.
Ecosystem Expansion
Scale the FinTaste, T-Commerce, and TasteEd ecosystems — broadening the utility of Yuhmmy Money, Taste Now Pay Later (TNPL), taste-based learning, and micro-taste transactional commerce.
Market Penetration
Launch targeted go-to-market initiatives, strategic partnerships, and international campaigns to expand Labs’ footprint and deepen member acquisition across key regions.
Operational Infrastructure
Invest in talent, regulatory systems, internal platforms, and scalable architecture to support Labs’ global expansion and long-term innovation velocity.
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 dimension 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, 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 built around people as digital personas — it’s built around taste as a daily necessity. By making 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, members don’t just share updates — they react in real time to tastes, dishes, and sensory experiences. It’s social connection grounded in appetite, powered by 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 brings this model to the world of taste — making flavor, conversation, and commerce beautifully social and irresistibly fun.
Built to reimagine how people engage with taste, delight, and decision, the Yuhmmy App spans a range of unique features:
Taste Reactions™ — 2 to 10 second emotion-driven ultra short-taste video responses like 2-second Taste Teases Savor™, 4-second Flavor Flashes™, 6-second Savor Snaps™, 8-second Crave Clips™, and 10-second Munch Moments™
Tasterooms™ — live real-time audiovisual drop-in sessions for shared taste experiences and crave community expression
Taste Sports™ — a competitive-tasting layer where snackers, sippers, and tastethusiasts turn food and drink into sport
Taste Drops™ — limited-release, crave-worthy palate product drops and culinary collectibles
Tastestreams™ — taste-based live streams from the frontlines of flavor, food culture, and Tastertainment™, powered by Yuhmmy Live
Tastechat™ — a rich conversational messenger designed around flavor, food, and crave culture dialogues
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, and social commerce into a unified ecosystem.
Ecosystems
FinTaste Ecosystem powers Yuhmmy Wallet and Yuhmmy Money, including Cravecash, Cravecoins, Tastecoins, Tastetokens, Yuhmbucks, and services like Yuhmmy Prizes, Yuhmmy Earn, Yuhmmy Endorse, Yuhmmy Rewards, and Yuhmmy Pay
Tsports Ecosystem powers YuhmmyVS and the competitive world of Taste Sports and Taste Leagues
Tastertainment Ecosystem powers Yuhmmy Music, Yuhmmyevents and its annual Yuhmmylicious Week, blending online-to-offline flavor experiences
TasteEd Ecosystem powers Yuhmmy Learn, creating a new education vertical for taste
Tastespitality Ecosystem powers YuhmmyHouse, an elevated expression of crave culture and culinary real estate
T-commerce Ecosystem powers Yuhmmy Market and TNPL / Taste Now, Pay Later, AI-personalized, micro-taste financing models that bundle daily cravings into flexible payment structures
Taste Delivery Ecosystem powers Yuhmmy Bites, real-time taster-to-taster dishcovery and delivery
Taste Immersion Ecosystem powers powers spatial-tasting environments that will build upon our Yuhmmy AR/VR platform
Economies
Tasteconomy fuels micro taste-transactions across food, drinks, sweets, snacks and recreational flavors
Craveconomy drives social-craving as economic and cultural currency
Cuisineconomy links creators, chefs, and tastemakers to the cultural and financial value of food
Yuhmmy Seller: A New Kind of Tastetrepreneurship
Tastetrepreneurs — entrepreneurial builders of taste-based businesses
Tastefluencers — creators who shape crave-driven influence
Tastebassadors — social connectors who represent flavor communities
Tastethusiasts — everyday lovers of taste who amplify discovery
Tastevangelists — passionate believers in the mission of flavor
Tastetalent — tastemakers, chefs, hosts, and creators
Cravecreators — audiovisual storytellers capturing craving as content
A $1 Trillion Taste Market
The global food, beverage, snack, confectionary, and restaurant industries collectively represent a 2025 combined total of over $10 Trillion in annual revenue— but the category has yet to be meaningfully transformed by artificial intelligence. Labs is, changing that.
With YuhmmyAI and our proprietary Taste Intelligence™️ systems, we’re bringing perception-based computing to the taste layer — unlocking real-time personalization, dynamic taste modeling with STAMs (Social-Taste AI Models) and STAGs (Social-Taste Agents), and crave-powered behavior prediction across the entire Commercial-Taste Industry (CTI). From bite to byte, we’re reengineering how the world craves, discovers, and transacts flavor.
Yuhmmy is our gateway product into this market. It operationalizes Labs’ SAT framework — Subscriptions, Advertising, and Transactions — activating recurring revenue, expression-based advertising, and taste-driven commerce in a single platform. This strategy flows into our broader BREMS architecture, fueling fluidity across every touchpoint.
As AI reshapes industries one by one, taste is no longer an afterthought. It’s a trillion-dollar frontier — and Labs is building the systems to power it.
Yuhmmy is the first application that gives life to Labs’ research in perception-based intelligence, sensorial systems, real-time micro-interaction, contextual-cognition and taste-technologies.
More than just a social network app — it’s the first experiential system for taste-based identity — participation, attribution, contribution and knowledge (PACK), giving tasters the ability to have fun, be funny and host flavorful crave content around the world.
Mission. Vision. Purpose. Philosophy.
At Labs, we believe the future isn’t something we inherit — it’s something we shape.
Our Mission: Inspire creativity to shape futures that help build communities and advance human capabilities
Our Vision: Accelerate the evolution of embodied existence to improve lives by unlocking human capacity
Our Purpose: Elevate possibility through design, intelligence, and a shared imagination to expand human potential
Our Philosophy: Reimagining the dimensions of science redefines knowledge guiding the course of human progress
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.
lab1: Labs Intelligence — Our superintelligence RD&R lab builds contextual-cognitive frameworks, sensorial AI models, and perceptive systems. Through LabsAI, LabsML, LabsIQ, LabsLQ, LaLaMo, Lamimo, and Lasamo, we’re shaping intelligence that perceives, emotes, and reasons alongside humanity.
lab2: Labs Realities — Engineering immersive technologies across AR, VR, MR, XR, and RR (Replacement Reality). We are developing the Labsverse, a suite of multidimensional-metaverses, and embodied digital environments that enrich how we sense, perceive and experience reality like Labs Worlds and the Yuhmmyverse.
lab3: Labs Blocks — Designing decentralized frameworks for a programmable internet. With tools like Labschains, Labswebs, and tokenized infrastructure, we’re helping define the next web from Web3 to Web6.
lab4: Labs Crypto — Inventing financial systems built for contextual-cognitive economies. We’re designing the Labs Wallet, Labscoins, and Tastetokens, advancing cryptographic technologies and our frontier Cryptoquants™ that support decentralized-AI value and trade economies.
lab5: LabsX — Exploring frontier science across quantum computation, neuroscience, nanoengineering, biochemistry, bioengineering and biosystems. We’re building foundational experimental science-labs like: Labsquant, Labsbio, Labsnano, Labsneuro, Labsgenomics, and Labspeutics to push the edge of what’s scientifically possible in enhancing human ability, health, existence and longevity.
lab6: LavLabs — The human-experience lab and home of Yuhmmy, LavLabs creates technologies that connect with taste, expression, memory, and emotion — elevating experiences into moments of joy, creativity, and connection.
lab7: Factory5227 — Our advanced hardware lab building wearables, devices, electronics, machines, and embedded chip systems including projectLARG (Labs AR Gadgets) and Yuhmmy’s projectPARG (Palate smARt Gadgets) for developers building within the LabsOS, LabsXR OS and LabsboticsOS ecosystems.
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.
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 redefinition 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.
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 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