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Current product, iPhone and Android
Passboards is back on the App Store after a full-stack rebuild and a new round of direct user testing, and on Google Play since October 2026.
Investors
The network starts with something people already share.
Every trip, team, club, family, and event produces a story spread across different phones and private chats. Passboards brings those perspectives into one collaborative home built around the experience, not the individual profile.
A board solves the immediate collection problem. Clubs turn repeated collaboration into a private network that becomes more useful as a group keeps living, contributing, and returning together.
Evidence behind the build
Built from product experience, not a paper thesis.
200+
Hours of user sessions
The original V1 overhaul was shaped by extensive observation and feedback, not assumptions about how groups behave.
Full stack
Rebuilt for the return
The 2026 product was rebuilt across iPhone, backend, website, media infrastructure, and operations before returning to market.
How the product compounds
Utility first. Network second. Intelligence next.
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A board is the wedge
A trip, game, celebration, or ordinary weekend gives someone an immediate reason to start a board and invite the people who were there.
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Clubs make it a network
The same people create more memories together. Clubs carry that collaboration into conversation, new boards, and a growing shared history.
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Trust makes it durable
Private spaces, clear membership, and permission-aware intelligence can make Passboards a home people return to, not another feed they perform for.
Why Passboards now
Shared media grew richer. Its social home did not.
Photos, video, messages, and AI-created media move through more feeds and private chats than ever, while the context that makes them meaningful still disappears. Groups need a durable place for the history they create together.
The product opportunity is also more practical to pursue in 2026. AI compresses implementation, investigation, testing, documentation, and operations. Work that once consumed months can reach users in hours or days, with direct feedback shaping the next iteration.
That leverage does not replace judgment, privacy, or trust. It gives a focused company more capacity to build those values deeply into the product.
Founder-market fit
A decade of building products people bring their friends into.
Read Max's full storyMax has been building iPhone products for communities since high school. He released MVHS Sports, founded his school's iOS Club, and co-created Truthy: Truth or Dare, an acquired consumer app that demonstrated his ability to create playful social products people repeatedly invited their friends to use.
He later built investment-management software at Ridgeline and lending and credit systems at Nav, where he became a Staff Software Engineer in January 2026. He also earned bachelor's and master's degrees in computer science from Santa Clara University.
Passboards connects those threads: consumer instinct, production engineering, direct user research, and a long-standing belief that social products should organize people around what they share.
The intelligence layer
A private memory graph can become useful in entirely new ways.
With the right permission model, Passboards can help people search, understand, curate, and revisit years of shared media using the meaning inside it, not just dates and filenames.
Product directions
- Ask your memories: permission-scoped search across photos, video, captions, people, places, and conversation.
- Curate the signal: duplicate detection, quality ranking, event clustering, and highlight selection across contributors.
- Understand video: temporal indexing and scene-level retrieval for collections too large to inspect manually.
- Create with provenance: recaps grounded in source media, with links back to the original moments.
Built for accelerated computing
Passboards is a member of NVIDIA Inception, NVIDIA's program for startups, accepted on October 7, 2026. Blackwell-class development capacity will support multimodal inference, long-video experiments, evaluation, fine-tuning, and TensorRT optimization while keeping sensitive product data close to the development environment.
Company history
The return is informed by the first chapter.
Passboards has already lived through a launch, a feedback-driven overhaul, a deliberate pause, and a ground-up return. The company is building with more evidence and stronger engineering than it had at the start.
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May 2022
The first build
Passboards began with the conviction that shared experiences deserve a lasting home shaped by the people who were there.
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July 2022
Company formed
Passboards, Inc. was formed as a Delaware corporation with formation counsel from Fenwick & West.
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October 2022
V0 public release
The first public version put the original collaborative memory product into users' hands.
04
May 2023
V1 product overhaul
More than 200 hours of user sessions and extensive feedback informed a complete product overhaul.
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November 2023
Development paused
Max paused active development to deepen his engineering experience while working full time and beginning graduate study.
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September 2026
The return
Max rebuilt Passboards across the stack, resumed direct user testing, and brought the current iPhone app to market.
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October 2026
Accepted into NVIDIA Inception
On October 7, 2026, Passboards was accepted into NVIDIA Inception, NVIDIA's program for startups, as the company prepares to raise capital and build out its own hardware infrastructure.
Passboards, Inc. is a Delaware C corporation based in California. Fenwick & West advised on the company's formation.
What capital accelerates
A focused path from product love to scale.
- Product: make contributing, organizing, and returning to shared history feel effortless.
- Team: add exceptional iOS, infrastructure, multimodal AI, and community leadership around a founder-built core.
- Growth: deepen invitation and retention loops around clubs, teams, trips, families, and events.
- Infrastructure: build out our own hardware for dependable media storage, delivery, and accelerated intelligence while preserving clear privacy boundaries.
Talk with the founder
Invest in a better home for shared memories.
Passboards was accepted into NVIDIA Inception on October 7, 2026, and is ready to raise and build out its hardware infrastructure. For the current product story, roadmap, operating details, and active financing conversations, contact Max Khan directly. Please include your firm, investment focus, typical stage and check size, and the best way to reach you.
Contact max@passboards.comThis page is informational and is not an offer to sell or a solicitation to purchase securities.