Syng is an ultra-premium audio hardware startup founded by Chris Stringer, a former Apple designer, focused on "triphonic" spatial audio. Its core product is the Syng Cell Alpha, a high-end $1,799 speaker designed as a furniture-like object that uses computational audio to create a dynamic spatial soundstage and supports up to four speakers per room. The hardware emphasizes spatial audio first and adjusts to room acoustics via computational processing, enabling less rigid speaker placement and interactive feedback between units. Syng has hinted at future products in different price points and sizes and positions its model more like Sonos—treating devices as home objects rather than utilitarian gear. Financially, Syng closed a $48.75 million combined Series A and has now raised $50 million to date, with funding earmarked for R&D on future hardware and software. The article notes challenges including the difficulty of building long-lived consumer hardware and limited spatial-audio content across streaming services.

Total raised

$49M

Funding rounds

1

Latest round

Series A

Latest activity

Sep 2021