19-year-old founder raises $11M for Ghost's $3,499 personal AI computer

Ghost, founded by 19-year-old Zain Javaid, emerged from stealth with an $11 million seed round led by Andreessen Horowitz. Its first product, Core, is a $3,499 screenless computer with an Nvidia RTX Pro 4000 SFF Blackwell GPU that runs AI agents locally. Pre-orders opened Monday, with shipping set for the last week of October.

• The $11M seed round was led by Andreessen Horowitz, with Abstract, Audacious Ventures, SV Angel and Nova participating
• Core costs $3,499 and includes an Nvidia RTX Pro 4000 SFF Blackwell GPU in the price
• It ships with Qwen-3.8-Next, Qwen-3.8-27B and Gemma-4-31B preinstalled, plus support for Hugging Face models
• Personal data and agent memory run locally and encrypted, with a firewall monitoring the agent's network requests