More than 600 million people watched the moon landing live in 1969. When NASA’s Artemis program returned astronauts to the lunar surface, an estimated 27 million tuned in, even as the world’s population had doubled. The shared cultural experience, the kind that once stitched strangers together, has quietly collapsed—and Paul Scherer thinks AI is about to make it worse before anyone tries to make it better.
That gap is what Eigen is betting on. The stealth AI startup has raised a $15 million seed round from Benchmark with Pinterest cofounder Ben Silbermann and Dreamer cofounder David Singleton (who later sold his company to Meta) joining as angel investors, Fortune learned exclusively.
