Android-native operating system optimized for AI agents
AI📍 San Francisco, CAFounded 2025
Current Valuation
Private
PRIVATE
IPO Outlookprivate
Is Wafer going public?
No. Wafer is private and has not filed to go public. There is no S-1 on file.
What is Wafer's valuation in 2026?
No confirmed valuation is on record for Wafer. The roster shows funding and investors where they are public; it does not estimate a mark.
Has Wafer filed an S-1?
No public S-1 is on file for Wafer.
Who are Wafer's investors?
Wafer's investors include Susa Ventures, Y Combinator.
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.
Wafer is a Susa-backed and Y Combinator seed-stage startup forking Android into an AI-native operating system designed from the ground up around agent workloads and on-device inference. The company is positioning around partnerships with smartphone OEMs — particularly the long tail of Android licensees outside of Samsung and Google — to ship devices where AI agents are the default surface rather than an app-store overlay.
Company Profile
CEO
Sam Hall
Founded
2025
HQ
San Francisco, CA
Employees
~10
Total Raised
$4M
Growth
Pre-revenue seed stage
Last Round
Seed — $4M (Jan 2025) · Lead: Susa Ventures
IPO Status
private
Fundraising Status
Seed · $4M · 1y 7mo ago
privateTotal raised $4M
Latest Funding Round
Round
Amount
Date
Lead Investor
Post-Money
Seed
$4M
Jan 2025
Susa Ventures
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Vertical Intelligence — AI / ML
No verified Hugging Face organization found for Wafer — no attributable open-model footprint. Closed-weights labs are common; this is a distribution signal, not a capability judgment.
Checked huggingface.co as of 2026-08-19. Re-checked weekly.
Talent Signal
Hiring trend
● First snapshot
trend accrues with monthly sweeps
Open roles
2
via ashby
Product-build share
0%
engineering, research, product, design
Trajectory
steady
go-to-market push — Only 0% of open roles build product — hiring is concentrated in sales/marketing/ops (1 of 2 open roles are other).
Actively hiring with no tracked executive churn.
Open roles by month
Open roles by function
■ product-building ■ go-to-market / G&A
Member of Technical StaffGTM
Counted from Wafer's live job board as of 2026-08-17; role functions classified from posting titles. Open-role counts are an activity signal, not headcount. Refreshed monthly.
Founders & Key People
Sam HallEmilio AndereSteven Arellano
Investors
Susa Ventures · Y Combinator
Products
Wafer OS (Android fork for AI)
Native agent runtime
Cross-device chip optimization
OEM SDK
Competitors
Rabbit · Humane · Google Android (default) · Apple iOS
AIMobile OSY CombinatorEdge AI
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.