Skye Wants to Replace Your iPhone Homescreen With an AI Layer and It Has Already Raised $3.58 Million

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A new iPhone app called Skye, still in private testing, is aiming to fundamentally change how people interact with AI on their smartphones by replacing the traditional homescreen with what its creator calls an "agentic homescreen" built entirely from iOS widgets. Rather than asking users to open an app or type into a chatbot, Skye is designed to bring ambient intelligence directly to your device's surface, offering personalized insights about your local weather, current context, health data, email replies, meeting preparation, suspicious bank charges, and location-specific recommendations about nearby businesses and neighborhoods. All of this data is pulled through connections explicitly authorized by the user, keeping the experience personal without requiring manual input for each task. The startup behind the app, Signull Labs, was founded by Nirav Savjani, a former Google and Meta employee who operates under the pseudonym signüll on X, and has raised more than $3.58 million in pre-seed funding from backers including Andreessen Horowitz, True Ventures, SV Angel, and Offline Ventures, at a post-money valuation of $19.5 million according to PitchBook.

Despite having no public product available yet, Skye has already attracted tens of thousands of users to its waitlist following the founder's announcement on X, suggesting meaningful consumer appetite for a more AI-aware iPhone experience. The timing is notable: the app's concept overlaps closely with the direction that other players in the AI hardware space are pursuing, from OpenAI's rumored smartphone built around AI agents replacing apps to Nothing CEO Carl Pei's prediction that traditional apps will eventually disappear entirely. Skye is essentially attempting to demonstrate that concept on existing iPhone hardware rather than waiting for new devices, using iOS's widget system as the interface layer for an always-on AI that understands your context without requiring you to actively engage with it. A launch to the waitlist is expected soon, with no specific date disclosed.

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tens of thousands on the waitlist for an app that doesn't exist yet. founder posted on X once. the pipeline is unreal.

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raised $3.58M pre-seed at $19.5M valuation with no product. a16z really said the vibe check is sufficient.