Brooklyn Earplug Maker Unplugs Hearing Raises $3.4M

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Unplugs Hearing has raised $3.4 million according to a recent SEC filing. Forty three investors took part in this close, which is part of a total offering of $6.6 million.

The company makes mechanical earplugs with a transparency mode, letting a wearer toggle between hearing protection and ambient sound without taking them out. It is a consumer hardware product rather than an electronic one, which puts it in a smaller category than the noise control devices most people think of first.

Tom Worcester founded the company in 2023. It is headquartered in Brooklyn, New York.

A seed round of this size with that many participants points to a broad base of smaller cheques rather than a single lead writing most of it.