2x founder

Cayden Pierce

Smart Glasses CEO @ Mentra

Co-founder

Mentra· Winter 2025 🇺🇸 San Francisco, California, United States

in LinkedIn 𝕏 @caydengineer

2024Co-founder· Mentra

Founder · since 2015

Company

Mentra

Role

CEO/Co-Founder

current

Stage

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no public source

Raised

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no public source

Based

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Founder / co-founder — the company's markEmployee / research role

Source: LinkedIn work history

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Mentra

Building the open source smart glasses operating system.

Winter 2025

Experience

Career

Mentra
Co-founder
CEO/Co-Founder · 2024 – Present
2024
Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Grad Student，MIT Media Lab · Cambridge, MA · 2023 – 2024
2023
TeamOpenSmartGlasses
Team Lead · 2022 – 2024
2022
Auki Labs
Wearables Engineer and Memetics Apprentice · Hong Kong SAR · 2024
2024
JITX
Application Engineer · San Jose, California, United States · 2023
2023
Blueberry
BCI Research Lead · Toronto, ON · 2020 – 2021
2020
University of Toronto
Wearable Computing Advisor · 2020 – 2021
2020
MannLab
Lab Manager, Researcher · Toronto, ON · 2020
2020
MannLab
Team Lead, Researcher · Toronto, ON · 2019
2019
DGI Spindles and Ballscrews
Engineering Intern, Project Lead · Ramos Arizpe, Mexico · 2018
2018
Concepts Web Design
Founder
Designer, Founder · Kingston, ON, Canada · 2015 – 2016
2015

Bio

Worked with the inventor of smart glasses. Built the OpenSourceSmartGlasses hardware and demoed at CES. Joined MIT Media Lab to make proactive AI smart glasses. Dropped out of MIT to start Mentra.