Mentra
Mentra is a YC Winter 2025 (W25) company. Based in San Francisco, CA, USA. Team of 12.
About Mentra
Summary
Mentra builds an open-source operating system and app store for smart glasses, targeting frontline and physical workers. Its flagship product, Mentra Live, gives field technicians hands-free access to point-of-view video calling, AI guidance, and automatic work documentation, replacing manual logging, separate devices, and delayed expert support. The platform runs on customer-controlled infrastructure and supports air-gapped deployments, keeping operational data inside the organization.
Business model
Direct hardware sales plus a sales-led software and device-management platform for enterprise workforce deployments.
Go-to-market
Enterprise and industrial employers with frontline workforces are the buyers; sales teams close deals, with Microsoft Teams integration and on-premises deployment options lowering adoption friction for IT-governed organizations.
From the Y Combinator listing
Building the open source smart glasses operating system.
Mentra is building the open source operating system for smart glasses. The smart glasses hardware is finally ready, so we're building the OS and app store to power the next computing platform.
Facts
- Consumer / Consumer -> Virtual and Augmented Reality
- San Francisco, CA, USA
- 12
- Active
- Early
Founders (2)
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