Plastic Labs Closes $5.35M Pre-Seed Round, Launches AI Identity Platform Honcho

PANews April 11, Plastic Labs @plastic_labs announced the completion of a $5.35M pre-seed funding round led by Variant, White Star Capital, and Betaworks, with participation from Mozilla Ventures, Seed Club Ventures, Greycroft, and Differential Ventures. Angel investors include Scott Moore, NiMA Asghari, and Thomas Howell.

Honcho provides user identity modeling and social cognition functions through a cloud API, helping developers build AI agents with personalized memory and adaptability. Plastic plans to expand Honcho from a platform to a decentralized network, allowing users to share and sovereignly own their "digital identity representation" across multiple AI applications, promoting an individual-led AI alignment paradigm.