Neura closes strategic funding round and partnerships to build emotional AI with persistent, user-owned memory

Jun. 9, 2026

Tokyo, Japan, June 9th, 2026, Chainwire

Joined by partners and investors including Animoca Brands, Basics Capital, TBV, Kinetic Kollective, Mario Nawfal, and Grammy-winning artist Ne-Yo, Neura is building the missing layer of AI: empathy and memory.

Neura, the protocol building the world’s first Emotional AI Economy, today announced the close of a strategic funding round to accelerate development of AI agents with persistent emotional memory and user-owned identity. The round drew leading investors and partners in the Web3, AI, and culture spaces, including Animoca Brands, Basics Capital, TBV, Kinetic Kollective, Mario Nawfal, and Grammy Award-winning artist Ne-Yo.

Today’s AI is getting smarter every month — but it still forgets users the moment a session ends or devices change. It processes what people say, not what they feel. Neura is built to close that gap. Its agents interpret tone and emotional context, remember a user’s emotional history across interactions, and adapt over time to build genuine, long-term relationships — with that memory anchored on-chain and owned by the user, not trapped inside a centralized app.