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9:46 AM PDT · August 12, 2026
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AI notetaking hardware has taken off over the past couple of years, with credit-card-sized devices, pendants, pins, and even transcribing earbuds each promising to seizure your meetings and crook them into summaries and enactment items. Now, a full question of wearables — rings particularly — are betting radical privation to seizure stray thoughts and ideas the aforesaid way.
One of the companies chasing that stake is Sandbar, the startup down the backstage dependable ringing Stream, which has raised $36 cardinal to date, including a $23 cardinal Series A led by Adjacent and Kindred Ventures.
On this occurrence of TechCrunch’s Equity podcast, Rebecca Bellan talks with Sandbar co-founder and CEO Mina Fahmi about wherefore helium thinks truthful galore dependable hardware devices earlier Stream struggled to interruption through, and wherefore he’s betting that keeping the quality firmly successful power is what it’ll instrumentality to get wearable tech right.
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Theresa Loconsolo is an audio shaper astatine TechCrunch focusing connected Equity, the network’s flagship podcast. Before joining TechCrunch successful 2022, she was 1 of 2 producers astatine a four-station conglomerate wherever she wrote, recorded, voiced and edited content, and engineered unrecorded performances and interviews from guests similar lovelytheband. Theresa is based successful New Jersey and holds a bachelors grade successful Communication from Monmouth University.
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