Egoist Machines raised $3 million in seed funding and officially launched AI Passport, a permission-based identity and context layer designed to make personal AI data portable across different assistants and applications. The seed round included participation from Y Combinator, Goodwater Capital, a European family office, and scientists from DeepMind and Meta.
AI Passport is designed to let users carry personal context, preferences, goals, and connected application data across AI assistants such as ChatGPT, Claude, Gemini, Perplexity, and other applications without requiring each service to independently own that information.
The company positions the platform as an alternative to the current model, where personal context is stored separately within individual AI applications.
Instead, AI Passport gives users a central place to review, manage, share, or delete information gathered from connected apps.
Users can create an AI Passport and connect it to AI assistants, email, calendar, productivity tools, wearable devices, and other applications that rely on personal context.
Egoist Machines currently supports connectors for about 800 applications and said it will continue adding integrations.
When a user shares new information with a connected application, such as travel plans or a preferred writing style, that information can be synchronized to the AI Passport inbox.
Users can then decide whether to make the information available to other connected applications, keep it accessible only to the original application, or delete it.
Connected applications can also request specific information from AI Passport.
Users can establish defaults for certain types of requests, while Egoist said sensitive information such as dates of birth will require explicit approval before being shared.
The company said this architecture is intended to reduce the need for users to repeatedly explain their preferences and personal context when switching between AI assistants.
It also gives competing AI applications a way to share approved context without requiring one provider to control the underlying personal data.
Egoist Machines was founded by Erin McGurk and Dr. David Khachaturov after the pair became concerned about how AI assistants were collecting, storing, and sharing user information.
The founders also saw an opportunity to address the difficulty users face when trying to transfer preferences and context between different AI products.
Egoist launched a beta version of AI Passport earlier in 2026 and created a waitlist ahead of the public launch.
The company said the waitlist grew 41% week over week and generated more than 10 business-to-business-to-consumer pilot programs, each involving organizations with more than 1 million users.
The newly raised capital will accelerate product development as Egoist expands its permission-based infrastructure for sharing context across AI applications.
AI Passport is now available through Egoist Machines’ website and mobile application.
The company is also opening its ecosystem to developers who want to integrate applications with AI Passport.
KEY QUOTES:
“Right now, people have no idea what their AI assistants know about them, and Egoist’s AI Passport is giving them that insight for the first time. We strongly believe that your context should sit with you, and apps should come ask.”
Erin McGurk, Co-Founder of Egoist Machines
