Two weeks into July, and we've already matched our all-time monthly high from last month.
Our community has also continued to grow across every major channel:
5.4K+ on X
4.5K+ on TikTok
700+ on Instagram
600+ on RedNote
On the product side, we've shipped a ton:
• New onboarding with a Scenario Mode demo
• 500% faster voice-to-voice latency
• Companion animations
• Major personality upgrades across all of our companions
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We're incredibly excited to share that Solace has officially been selected as an @ElevenLabs Startup Grant recipient. 🤍
A huge thank you to the ElevenLabs team for believing in our vision and powering the world's most premium AI companionship experience.
We're just getting started.
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Weekly Monday Milestones 🚀
Another exciting week at Solace.
Growth
-We've now reached 400,000+ cumulative organic views across our content.
-Our creator network continues to expand, and we're expecting to double down on our growth campaign throughout this month as we scale partnerships and increase our posting cadence.
Product
We've shipped a huge wave of product improvements this week:
-More expressive companion avatars with significantly improved animations.
-Solace can now react dynamically to your tone of voice, making conversations feel much more natural.
-Major upgrades to voice quality, personality, and emotional expressiveness for a far more immersive experience.
Android
-Our Android app is now in the final stages of testing, and we're incredibly excited to bring Solace to even more users very soon.
Every week we're getting closer to our vision of building the world's most emotionally intelligent AI companion.
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Monday Milestones 🚀
This week at Solace:
• ~300,000 organic views across TikTok, Instagram, RedNote & YouTube Shorts
• ~1,000 weekly active users now talking to their companions
• Rolled out expressive voice customization (our companions can now laugh, gasp, shout, and get angry)
• Added support for English, Mandarin, Cantonese & Korean
• Launched collectible companion badges
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Solace retweeted
What if you could practice every important conversation before it actually happened?
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Virtuals x Solace 🤙
.@npckellyzeng started Solace as a wellness prototype out of Berkeley. With funding, she took it from prototype to shipping real hardware, and just hit an all-time high in signups.
Proud to see builders like Kelly in the Virtuals ecosystem, where hard ideas find the funding to scale.
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Today we hit an all-time high in new user signups. We surpassed the total signup volume of every previous month in Solace's history.
What a milestone!
Daily new signups (Nov 3, 2025 - Jun 22, 2026)
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🚀 MONDAY MILESTONES
Starting this week, we'll be sharing a quick update every Monday on what we've accomplished at Solace and what we're focused on next.
Here's this week's progress:
• We onboarded 2 new creators whose content has generated over 100M+ views collectively across TikTok and Instagram.
• Our creator campaigns launched a week ago. We currently have 8 creators in the program and expect that number to more than double by month-end.
• We shipped 471 product updates this week, including a completely redesigned onboarding experience and the launch of Scenario Mode, a new feature that allows users to practice difficult real-world conversations with AI before having them in real life.
• Our Android app has officially entered testing, bringing us one step closer to launching across the Android ecosystem.
• Since March, we've seen a 99% increase in click-through performance across our growth channels.
• We're currently tracking toward a 5.7% conversion rate and continuing to iterate on activation, retention, and user experience.
The team is shipping faster than ever, our creator program is beginning to scale, and Android testing is now underway.
Back to work. 🌱
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We're incredibly grateful for all the support from our community in helping us recruit Android testers for Solace 💚
To everyone testing the app: thank you. We’ll be reading through all of your feedback carefully and using it to improve the product over the coming weeks.
We've now enabled testing access across all regions. If you're still having trouble accessing the beta, please give it until tomorrow as the changes continue to propagate.
If you reached out for testing access, our team will be DMing you individually with the test link.
Thank you again for helping us build Solace 🌱
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A couple reminders for testers:
• Please make sure you're signing into Google Play with the same Google account you provided in the comments.
• Google requires testers to remain opted into the test for 14 days, so please do not uninstall the app during this period.
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🚨 ANDROID USERS NEEDED 🚨
We’re preparing to launch SOLACE on Google Play and need 12 Android users for our final beta test.
To participate, you must:
• Have access to an Android device
• Download the app
• Keep it installed and active for the next 2 weeks
In return, you’ll get free early access to SOLACE and be among the first people to try our new Scenario Mode.
Interested?
Comment SOLACE + your email below and we’ll send you access.
Only 12 spots available.
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Hardware update for everyone waiting on their Solace Seed:
We just received confirmation that our shipment is currently on the SM PORTLAND and is expected to arrive at port on June 28.
As soon as inventory reaches our Vancouver warehouse, we’ll begin shipping all remaining North American orders.
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We have an exciting announcement for the Solace community.
Starting next month, Solace will allocate 2% of all net revenue generated from software subscriptions and hardware sales toward $SOLACE buybacks and permanent token burns.
In addition, we may conduct discretionary buybacks beyond this commitment whenever we believe it is beneficial to the long-term growth of the ecosystem.
As a milestone, once Solace reaches $100,000 in monthly revenue, the allocation will increase from 2% to 3%.
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A lovely unboxing photo from one of our customers after receiving their Solace Seed 🌱
There’s something special about seeing Seed finally make its way from our warehouse to someone’s hands. Every order represents a person who believed in our vision from day one, and we couldn’t be more grateful.
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So well said! The upside in this space is huge, and honestly we’re still very early. The community layer being built is just getting started.
Seed Era 🌱
Today, I spoke in DM with @npckellyzeng , Co-Founder of @solacelaunch
My question was simple: "Does the team care about the token?"
She shared her thoughts and also gave me an update on Solace's future plans and vision.
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" $Solace — Recent Company Updates
* **Global Fulfillment Progress**
* All Asia presale orders have been successfully fulfilled.
* North American inventory is currently in transit via sea freight. Due to ongoing geopolitical and shipping delays, arrival timelines have shifted slightly.
* Inventory is expected to arrive at our Vancouver fulfillment warehouse shortly, with secondary distribution beginning immediately thereafter.
* All North American presale orders are currently expected to be fulfilled by **early July 2026**.
* **Founders Operating Full-Time**
* Both founders, **Kelly Zeng (CEO)** and **Sarah Mou (COO)**, are now working on Solace full-time.
* The team is focused on scaling Solace's next-generation software platform and driving consumer adoption through large-scale content distribution.
* A major product announcement surrounding a new companion experience and the upcoming NEW FEATURE will be released within the next two weeks.
* **Strategic Partnership with Eastcolight**
* Solace continues to expand its co-distribution partnership with **Eastcolight**, our Hong Kong-based hardware partner.
* We are preparing for participation in a private enterprise exhibition this September, expected to be attended by major global distributors and retailers, including organizations such as Walmart and Target.
* **Scaling Operations**
* Solace has entered full-scale operational mode across product, growth, logistics, and distribution.
* Internal systems, fulfillment infrastructure, and customer support processes are being expanded to support the next phase of growth.
* **Consumer Growth Engine Launching**
* Our UGC program is now officially underway.
* We recently brought on a new Head of Growth whose previous content generated **100M+ views across TikTok**.
* Creator onboarding is currently being finalized, with coordinated content campaigns across consumer social channels launching next week.
* **Long-Term Vision**
* Our objective is to scale Solace into the world's leading emotionally intelligent AI platform.
* The company is targeting **multi-million dollar ARR within the next 12 months** through a combination of software subscriptions, hardware sales, enterprise partnerships, and creator-led distribution."
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