Ego is an applied AI research lab that builds human-like personal agents with voice, memory, personality, and intent, founded by Vishnu Hari and backed by Y Combinator as part of its Winter 2024 batch. Ego's Twitter Score is 11 out of 1000 as of August 2026, ranking #86,328 among 483,944 tracked accounts.
Ego was founded in 2023 and has since developed rōnin, a voice agent distinguished by its own personality, memory, and autonomous intent. In October 2025, Ego raised a $6.7 million seed round to train its foundation model, drawing backing from Accel, Dentsu, Balaji Srinivasan, Arjun Sethi, GRFUND, Patron, Boost VC, and Pear VC.
Ego also introduced the Character Context Protocol, an open-source framework designed to preserve AI character personalities consistently across different platforms. Ego maintains affiliations with AI Singapore, National University of Singapore, and Nanyang Technological University. The account has published 97 posts and has been mentioned by 1 accounts a total of 2 times, with 1,539 followers as of August 2026 on the platform.
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The accounts that follow Ego include 45 founders, 17 angel investors, 10 influencers and 1 VCs, among them Garry Tan, gabrielShapir0, Martin Shkreli, Andrew Steinwold, Marguerite and Scott Sunarto.