Skye AI app draws investors, reimagines iPhone home screen

Skye has drawn investor money before it ever reached the App Store, a sign that the next fight in artificial intelligence may not be a chatbot or a new phone, but the home screen itself. The iPhone app is still in private testing, yet its pitch is blunt: replace the static grid of icons with an “agentic homescreen” that turns iOS widgets into a live interface for AI.

That interface is meant to do more than answer questions. Skye says it would surface local weather, health signals, current context, reminders and location-specific recommendations for nearby businesses, neighborhoods and attractions. It would also draft email replies, help prepare for meetings, flag suspicious bank charges and pull in information through user-authorized connections. In practical terms, the company is arguing that the real value of AI on a phone is not another app to open, but a layer that anticipates what a user needs before they start tapping through menus.

The startup behind Skye, Signull Labs, raised more than $3.58 million in pre-seed funding in a round that closed in September 2025, according to a filing with the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission. PitchBook lists the company at a $19.5 million post-money valuation. Signull Labs is incorporated in Delaware and lists a New York office at 12 E. 14th Street, 3F, New York, NY 10003.

TechCrunch identified the creator behind the pseudonym signüll as Nirav Savjani, who says he previously worked at Google and Meta. On April 14, 2026, Savjani said the project had about 1 million video views, more than 25,000 people already on the waitlist, tens of thousands of additional signups and hundreds of emails and direct messages from investors and people excited about the product. That response suggests two things at once: consumer curiosity about a more AI-aware iPhone, and investor appetite for the interface that could succeed the smartphone home screen.

Signull Labs describes its wider mission as “AI-powered creation and narrative” and says, “AI is the new foundation.” That is the bet behind Skye as well. The company is wagering that the next consumer shift will not come from a larger model alone, but from an interface that makes AI feel native to the device people already use most.