Aura Home, Inc.

United States - New York, New York

• 23/11/2022
• Unknown
• $26,000,000

Aura created a new kind of connected photo frame by making it social, powered by an invite-only group of friends and family using the Aura app.

The company was founded by two early Twitter scientists who wanted to use their knowledge in social networking to create a more private way for loved ones to share and connect over photos. As our most precious content is increasingly digital, whether photos or art, Aura gives a dynamic dedicated space in the home to enjoy them – easy sharing from your phone, thoughtfully designed for home, and with unlimited cloud storage.

Our customers love Aura, gift frames to others, and invite close friends and family to share millions of photos added every day in the app.

Aura has offices in New York and San Francisco. Frames are available in the United States, Canada, United Kingdom, France, and Germany with photos being shared in the Aura app every day from more than 100 countries around the world.

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Dr. Abdur ChowdhuryFounder

United States - San Francisco, California

Abdur Chowdhury loves to build things. In his 20+ year career in research and development in computer science, Dr. Chowdhury has launched over 20 commercial products and worked on massive problems from scaling to spam. He has more than fifty patents and is published in more than 100 scientific publications. As one of Summize.com's Co-Founders, Dr. Chowdhury started organizing opinions from the web, a technology that merged with Twitter in 2008. Dr. Chowdhury became Twitter’s first Chief Scientist and was dubbed “The Father of Trends” by the BBC. During the early to mid-2000s, Dr. Chowdhury also served as the Chief Architect for Search at AOL and held other positions at IIT Information Retrieval Lab, Georgetown Computer Science Department, and University of Maryland's Institute for Systems Research. Currently, he is Co-Founder and CEO of Aura Frames, which has built a network of devices for families to share memories using machine vision to auto-curate photos. Additionally, Dr. Chowdhury co-founded the Alta Vista School, a charter school (K-8) offering STEM education in San Francisco. In his spare time. Dr. Chowdhury spends time with Deepflight building submarines designed to fly the world's oceans.

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