Residua AI
The business, the turning points, and the decisions behind them.
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01 / WHAT IT BUILT
What the company did
Residua AI, founded in New York in 2024 by Carmen Gutierrez (Stanford CS PhD, ex-Meta NLP researcher) and Jon Morales (Figma's first design hire), built AI tools to augment human cognition. Its pitch was a selective AI co-presence summonable from anywhere in the user's digital world, turning scattered emails, notes and media into navigable knowledge networks. The company raised a $1.67 million pre-seed round in March 2024 led by Union Square Ventures with Ex/Ante.
02 / FAILURE REASONS
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03 / EVENT HISTORY
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- Company founded
Carmen Gutierrez and Jon Morales found Residua AI in New York to build human-centered AI cognition tools.
- Funding round
Residua AI raises a $1.67 million pre-seed round led by Union Square Ventures with Ex/Ante participating.
04 / CONTEMPORARY REBUILD ASSESSMENT
Difficulty of rebuilding this project today
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05 / CAUSAL CHAIN / AFTERMATH
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