Investor Brief · 2026

The human layer of
the AI economy.

As AI takes over the work that computers can do, human skills become the durable advantage — and the scarcest asset in the world. NeyTorious is building the platform where those skills are grown, verified, and matched to opportunity.

Actively raising Seed Open to Partnerships
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The Thesis

Human skills are the new gold.

As machines take over the work computers can do, the skills that remain irreplaceable are the ones only humans have — the ability to persuade, inspire, lead, and connect.

There is no marketplace for those skills today. No way to verify them. No platform built to surface who actually has them. Employers can't find them. Members can't prove them. Communities can't scale the room where they're built. NeyTorious is that platform.

The Moment

Real rooms are back.

Dating apps. Home fitness. Virtual networking. Each promised to replace the room, and each hit the same ceiling: screens can inform, but only rooms can transform. A digital-detox boom is accelerating it. People aren't choosing NeyTorious over their screens — they're already going back to rooms. We're the infrastructure waiting for them when they arrive.

−91%
Bumble stock since IPO
Match Group (Tinder) down 70% in five years. Virtual dating can't deliver real connection.
Public market filings, 2024
+42%
In-person dating events
Growth in attendance, 2023–2024. Speed dating is the fastest-growing social trend.
Industry research, 2024
60M
Meetup users, +20% YoY
Event count up 52% in 2024. Gen Z's top request: more in-person.
Meetup 2025 Progress Report
+59%
Strava group activity
Run clubs are the fastest-growing way young people meet in person.
Strava Year in Sport, 2024
$20B
Digital-detox market by 2032
Growing ~9% a year. People pay to unplug — dumbphones and phone-free events are surging.
Digital wellbeing market research, 2024
300k+
Clubs already exist
NeyTorious doesn't scale the room. It scales the operating system for the clubs that already do.
Global community estimates

What we're building

Three layers. One platform.

An operating layer for clubs, a growth engine for members, and a marketplace for the world — each reinforcing the other.

01 — Club OS

The operating layer for clubs.

Agendas, roles, attendance, evaluations, and voting — fully automated. Predictive intelligence surfaces chapter health and at-risk members before they disengage, freeing officers to lead the room, not chase paperwork.

Live
02 — Growth Engine

Analytics and AI that grow communication and leadership.

Real-audience ratings and AI analysis turn every session into performance data — strengths, gaps, and the next step to improve. It compounds into a verifiable Skills Passport, earned through evidence, not self-report.

Live
03 — Soft Skills Marketplace

Verified human skill, matched to opportunity.

Where employers, keynote hosts, and recruiters discover people with proven communication, persuasion, and leadership — matched by real-audience scores and verified evidence, not résumés or self-reported claims.

Launching 2027

The Founder

Built by a technologist. Led by a believer.

Sahar Cain

Sahar Cain

Founder, CEO & CTO
I didn't know how much was in me — until I had a stage, an audience, and people willing to tell me the truth.

Sahar Cain is a tech entrepreneur with 12+ years of experience in artificial intelligence, business intelligence, and data science across retail, hospitality, biotech, and transportation.

She led the development and scale of the first AI-driven talent marketplace for hospitality — a venture-backed B2B SaaS platform serving Fortune 500 clients. She also built an autonomous operating model for hospitality, leading technology strategy, brand ideation, and MVP development from the ground up. Earlier in her career she drove the global rollout of business intelligence tools across one of the world's largest direct selling organizations.

During the COVID-19 pandemic, Sahar joined a research team working to expedite drug discovery through AI — because she believes technology should serve humanity's most urgent problems. That work led to research published in IEEE and MDPI journals, contributing to findings that later attracted NIH funding to advance the science further.

A triple immigrant across Iran, Malaysia, and the United States, Sahar knows firsthand that the ability to communicate across difference is not a soft skill — it is a survival skill. In her early twenties she built a hiking community from 5 members to 3,000, learning early that the hardest thing to engineer is not a platform but a people-driven movement.

She founded NeyTorious because she identified a gap no platform has solved: the skills that determine who leads, who gets hired, and who gets funded — communication, persuasion, presence — are the least measurable credentials in the professional world.

NeyTorious is the infrastructure that changes that.

Outside of building companies, Sahar holds a blue belt in Taekwondo, is a hiker and CrossFit athlete, and a former collegiate badminton player.

Our Purpose

To prepare humanity for its most human era.

As machines take on more of the work, what makes us human becomes what matters most — the ability to communicate, lead, connect, and move people. NeyTorious exists to help every person grow those skills, prove them, and turn them into opportunity, so the age of AI becomes the age we become more fully ourselves.

Get Involved

If you believe human skills
are the next great asset class — let's talk.

We're raising our Seed round and building our first partnerships. If you're an investor, an organisation, or a community that wants to be part of what comes next, we want to hear from you.

Actively raising Seed Open to Partnerships

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Thank you. We'll be in touch soon.
— The NeyTorious Team