Sesame, co-founded by Oculus co-founder Brendan Iribe, develops strikingly lifelike conversational voice AI and is building AI-powered eyewear as its delivery device.
AI📍 San Francisco, CA
Current Valuation
Private
PRIVATE
IPO Outlookprivate
Is Sesame going public?
No. Sesame is private and has not filed to go public. There is no S-1 on file.
What is Sesame's valuation in 2026?
No confirmed valuation is on record for Sesame. The roster shows funding and investors where they are public; it does not estimate a mark.
Has Sesame filed an S-1?
No public S-1 is on file for Sesame.
Can you buy Sesame stock?
No. Sesame is a private company — its shares are not listed on any exchange and there is no ticker. The routes to exposure are pre-IPO secondary marketplaces and funds (accredited investors), employee tender offers when the company runs one, and public companies with read-through exposure. QuantLogix maps every route it can verify for Sesame on its Pre-IPO Access Desk.
Answers are derived from the roster record shown on this page — filing status, last round and confirmed marks. Where the record is silent, the answer says so rather than guessing.
Company Profile
HQ
San Francisco, CA
IPO Status
private
Fundraising Status
private
Secondary Market
Implied price / share
$65
Last round price / share
$60.05
vs last round
+8.2%
Last round price vs secondary price
Secondary price return by period
Implied per-share price from private secondary transactions, as of Jun 2026. This is a point estimate, not a quote — the feed carries no bid, ask or spread, and a secondary print is evidence of what someone paid on that date rather than a live market. Compare across every tracked name →
Vertical Intelligence — AI / ML
Open models
1
Downloads (30d)
143,487
across all models
Followers
1,648
Top model
csm-1b
143,487 downloads / 30d
Attributed to Hugging Face organization "Sesame" as of 2026-09-19. Open-weights footprint only — closed-model usage is not publicly measurable. Verify on Hugging Face ↗
Talent Signal
Hiring trend
▲ Hiring uptrend
+2400% vs 2026-08
Open roles
25
via ashby
Product-build share
88%
engineering, research, product, design
Trajectory
expanding
heavy product build — 88% of open roles are product-building functions (engineering/research/product) — 10 of 25 open roles are engineering.
No tracked executive churn; open roles trending up.
Open roles by month
Open roles by function
■ product-building ■ go-to-market / G&A
iOS EngineerResearch ScientistSoftware Engineer - BackendElectrical Engineer Product Designer ML Model Serving Engineer
Counted from Sesame's live job board as of 2026-09-14; role functions classified from posting titles. Open-role counts are an activity signal, not headcount. Refreshed monthly.
Founders & Key People
Brendan Iribe
Products
Conversational voice AI
AI wearable / smart glasses
Competitors
ElevenLabs · Cartesia · Hume AI
AIVoice AIWearables
Private-company numbers are not real-time. Reflects publicly disclosed valuations from press releases, news reports, and tender offers as of recent date. Refreshed quarterly.