AI-Native Consumer & SocialSeedConsumer222
Machine learning for real-world connection.
Company snapshot
- Stage
- Seed
- Funding
- Series A · 2024-2025
- Status
- published
- Updated
- Apr 26, 2026
- Views
- Category
- AI-Native Consumer & Social
- Website
- 222.place
What they're building
Machine learning for real-world connection. 222 uses machine learning to match people for real-world social experiences, helping strangers form recurring connections through compatible groups and shared activities.
Founders
Keyan Kazemian
Co-founder
Foundation model usage
Editorial estimates from product descriptions. Model providers and actual usage are not confirmed.
- Inferred architecture
- Consumer inference, Agentic loops, Embeddings & semantic search
- Potential advantages
- Network effects
- Estimated model demand
- Very high intensity
NYC footprint
- NYC office
- SoHo, Manhattan
Funding
Latest funding: Series A · 2024-2025. Total raised: $13.7M. Lead investor: Y Combinator + undisclosed institutional.
AI Lab Fit
Good fit for personalization, conversational UX, recommendation loops, memory, multimodal understanding, and safe action-taking in consumer contexts.
Sources & location evidence
Open research desk ↗Profile source review: 2026-11-04. Current AI product, canonical company identity, and supported NYC operations. Funding stage and amounts were not rechecked. Strict NYC inclusion reviewed against current company product/careers sources. Office occupancy and street address require separate evidence; a mailing address is not a pin.
SoHo, Manhattan · verified office
Street address not public. Current primary company source establishes this neighborhood. Street address is not public; no coordinate inferred.
Company careers and team location ↗Source checked 2026-11-04
Notes
222 is tagged consumer based on buyer clarity, repeat workflow activity, public activity, and fit with the AI Atlas map.
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