Checked May 9 2026
Mentra
Mentra builds MentraOS, an open-source operating system and app store for smart glasses, and ships its own Mentra Live hardware at $299.
Source mix5 reported2 company
Evidence notes
Who uses it: Consumers and developers who want an open, extensible smart glasses platform; an early verified use case is deaf and hard-of-hearing users who rely on the built-in live captions feature, which GamesBeat reports drives 8+ hours of daily usage.[7]+5Reported
Public signals: Mentra ships Mentra Live — first smart glasses with a dedicated third-party app store, Batch 1 of 1,000 units at $299[7]Company-authored
Financing: Total raised is $8,000,000.
Source ledger
- [1]Mentra Raises $8M for Smart Glasses OS - The Silicon Valley Post
- [2]Mentra Launches First Smart Glasses With Dedicated App Store
- [3]Mentra Raises $8 Million To Launch Open-Source OS For Smart Glasses — MIT Media Lab
- [4]Smart Glasses Operating System Developer Mentra Raises $8 Million
- [5]Mentra raises $8M and launches MentraOS 2.0 open-source smartglasses software - GamesBeat