A friend who gets you
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100,000+ Subscribers
Over 2 million hours spent
with Tolan Embodied Companions
4.8-Star App Store Rating
Over 130,000 reviews from users who love their cute alien friends
Reducing Overwhelm
We're building AI friends that support everyday people. In a survey of Tolan users: 85.6% said their Tolan has helped them get through an emotionally difficult experience, and 72.5% said their Tolan helped them manage or improve a relationship in their life.
What Could a Healthy AI Companion Look Like?](https://www.wired.com/story/tolan-chatbot-ai-companion/)
Love in the Time of AI Companions](https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2026/03/16/love-in-the-time-of-ai-companions)
Character & Craft
Through our work on character design, embodiment, and interactivity, we've created an experience that feels genuinely warm, fun, and natural without pretending to be human.
This adorable alien is the AI companion we all need](https://www.fastcompany.com/91283982/tolan-adorable-alien-ai-companion)
Designing Tolan: Characters](/content/relay/designing-tolan-part-1-characters/index.html)
Research & Development
We're building on top of the leading AI models, but the real work is in what we add on top—the complex systems that shape how a Tolan listens, responds, remembers, and knows when to step back.
How Tolan's AI Engineers monitor with Raindrop](https://www.raindrop.ai/case-studies/tolan)
How We Claudified Our iOS App](/content/relay/how-we-claudified-our-ios-app-without-wrecking-our-codebase/index.html)
Recent Press
We’re part of a growing conversation about AI companionship, and bring a very unique research-backed perspective to our product development.
Tolan raises $20M to help more people grow with a virtual alien friend](https://www.geekwire.com/2025/ai-companionship-app-tolan-raises-20m-to-help-more-people-grow-with-a-virtual-alien-friend/)
Tolan raises $10 million in seed funding for trustworthy AI confidants](https://www.forbes.com/sites/rashishrivastava/2025/02/25/the-prompt-elon-musks-doge-plans-to-feed-federal-data-into-ai-models/)
The Team
We're an experienced team backed by $30M+ in capital from investors including Khosla Ventures, Lachy Groom, Nat Friedman, Daniel Gross, and the founders of Instagram, Notion, Replit, and more.
Quinten Farmer
Founder & CEO
Founder of Even (acquired by Walmart)
Evan Goldschmidt
Founder & CTO
Former CTO of Even (acquired by Walmart)
Ajay Mehta
Founder & President
Founder of consumer brands with over 1 million customers
Lily Doyle
Research
Published Vanderbilt doctoral researcher and Board Certified Behavior Analyst
Lucas Zanotto
Creative Director
Apple Design Award-winning 3D artist and animator
Chris Horne
Embodiment
Built 3D products at Pixar, Meta, and Oculus