Avi (@AviSchiffmann) — Twitter Score 225 out of 1000

Avi is a technology entrepreneur who founded Friend, an AI wearable companion startup whose core product is an always-listening pendant that communicates with the user's phone. Avi's Twitter Score is 225 out of 1000 (an Excellent rating) as of July 2026, ranking #1,944 (top 0.5%) among 531,432 tracked accounts.

Avi founded Friend after building a track record of rapid-response web projects, including nCoV2019.live, a COVID-19 case tracker launched in late 2019 that, per The New Yorker, drew more than one hundred million visitors by March 2020, and Ukraine Take Shelter, a site launched to help refugees fleeing Russia's invasion of Ukraine connect with people in neighboring countries willing to offer shelter. Friend opened for preorder at $99 per device in July 2024, with units slated to ship in January 2025, and Schiffmann told WIRED he paid $1.8 million for the Friend.com domain.

Avi raised $7 million in venture capital for Friend, according to The Times, from investors including Pace Capital, Abstract Ventures, Aravind Srinivas of Perplexity AI, and Anatoly Yakovenko, founder of Solana. The Times also reported that Friend is built atop Google's Gemini 2.5 model, while an earlier WIRED report noted the product had used Anthropic's Claude 3.5. Avi has 92,899 followers as of July 2026 and has published 18,806 posts. Avi has been mentioned by 125 accounts a total of 190 times.

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The accounts that follow Avi include 903 founders, 211 angel investors, 244 influencers and 7 VCs, among them Marc Andreessen, Toly, Chris Dixon, Stani, Nic Carter and smolting wassie, verse.