Mentra is an open-source smart-glasses operating system and hardware company that raised an $8M seed round in July 2025 to build MentraOS, a platform for compatible smart glasses. Mentra's Twitter Score is 8.7 out of 1000 as of September 2026, ranking #104,694 among 487,142 tracked accounts.
Mentra was founded by Cayden Pierce, who serves as CEO, and Alexander Israelov, who serves as CTO. The company was part of Y Combinator's Winter 2025 batch, and its backers include Toyota Ventures, Amazon Alexa Fund, and Hartmann Capital.
Mentra develops MentraOS as an open-source operating system designed to power smart glasses hardware, offering an app ecosystem, a developer SDK, and support for a range of compatible devices. The platform enables features such as live captions, AI conversation, photo capture, note-saving, and livestreaming directly through glasses. Mentra has published 90 posts on the platform and has attracted 3,546 followers as of September 2026.
Mentra has been mentioned by 5 accounts, with 14 total mentions.
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The accounts that follow Mentra include 48 founders, 6 angel investors, 18 influencers and 2 VCs, among them Jason, Matthew Graham, Mika, Dan FinIay, Androolloyd and Chang.