Nearu is building emotional and behavioral intelligence infrastructure for embedded AI and robotics.

Today’s AI systems are emotionally blind. They process language, generate responses, and simulate empathy – but they can’t actually perceive how a human feels. They talk at people, not with them.

Yet we keep deploying tone-deaf, single-channel models into sales calls, therapy sessions, customer support, high-stakes negotiations. The result: lost deals, churn, escalations that could have been avoided, decisions made on incomplete context.

Nearu changes what AI can sense.

Our multimodal engine fuses voice prosody, facial micro-expressions, and semantic context into a single real-time emotional signal – delivered through one API call before the LLM responds. The architecture enables AI systems to develop unique, evolving personalities over time and build persistent relationships with users.

Emotional intelligence, as infrastructure. Built for every AI that interacts with humans.

Backed by NVIDIA Inception, Google for Startups, and AWS Activate.

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