Ravn Resonance

Ravn Resonance is a spatial computing company building fashionable augmented reality glasses for all-day wear, plus a custom operating system that enables intuitive interactions with apps and physical objects.

Our team and advisors have years to decades of experience in augmented and virtual reality, and have contributed to projects at the MIT Media Lab, Samsung, Microsoft, and more. We are backed by Draper Associates (Tim Draper) and other VCs and angels.

We were founded by Tom Suarez, a Thiel Fellow, engineer, TED speaker and second-time founder who has consistently worn Google Glass and other customized AR/VR devices for over 10 years. Tom also did wearable computing research under Dr. Thad Starner, a pioneer in this space since the 1990s, at Georgia Tech's Contextual Computing Group.

Tom Suarez

Software & Electronics

12 years of AR engineering experience. Wearable devices, AI hardware, 3D tools, dev infrastructure. Shipped first-gen Curio hardware.

Dr. Rehmi Post

Optics & Firmware

Wearable computing pioneer (1990s). Ph.D in Physics from MIT. Computational optics research.

Curt Aumiller

Industrial Design

30 years of product design experience. Led industrial design at Samsung's Think Tank team. Shipped consumer products at Microsoft and Ford.

Ivan France

Mechanical Engineering

14 years of CAD experience, including manufacturing and CNC tooling for consumer electronics. Patents in robotics & AR/VR.

Parth Arora

Human Interaction Research

2x founder (1 acquired). Formerly at Apple Vision Pro team. Researching under Dr. Thad Starner at Georgia Tech.

Tom Harvey

GTM and DevRel

Led go-to-market strategy, operations, and developer relations at multiple startups.

Dr. Rehmi Post (Ravn research engineer), Dr. Thad Starner, Dr. Steve Mann, Dr. Alex Pentland (right to left)

MIT Media Lab, 1990s

Tom's first custom AR device (age 14)

2013

Internal Device Test

Mid 2024

Part of our SF lab