Top 26 Founders · Q1 2026
Katie Carpenter, Lunavii

Top 26 Founders · Q1 2026 edition

Katie Carpenter

Lunavii

Industry
IoT & SaaS
Stage
Pre-seed (<$500K)
Traction
Pre-revenue

Designing Safer Childhood Experiences.

“I'm building a world where safety doesn't come from fear or control, but from a child's sense of imagination and trust.”

KATIE CARPENTER AND LUNAVII: SAFETY ROOTED IN IMAGINATION AND TRUST, NOT FEAR

Katie Carpenter is building Lunavii to design safer childhood experiences — where safety comes from imagination and trust, not fear and control.

Child safety products often oscillate between two failures: paralyzing fear, which shrinks childhood, and naive freedom, which ignores real risks. Carpenter is pursuing a third path: experiences that preserve a child's sense of agency and wonder while giving caregivers grounded confidence that the environment is designed with safety as a first principle.

Lunavii creates products and experiences that give children freedom to explore while giving parents genuine peace of mind. That balance is harder than it sounds, because it requires understanding child development, ergonomics, social dynamics, and the emotional reality of parenting — not only hardware and software.

At pre-seed, Lunavii is pre-revenue but aligned with a category where trust is earned slowly and lost instantly. The brand promise must be reflected in materials, testing discipline, and transparency.

Lunavii is a bet that families will increasingly choose products that refuse the false tradeoff between safety and joy — and that the best child-centered technology will feel human, not punitive.

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