Nothing (company)

Nothing Technology Limited (stylised as NOTHING) is a British consumer electronics company headquartered in London. It was co-founded in 2020 by Carl Pei (co-founder of OnePlus), alongside Akis Evangelidis, David Sanmartín García, Steven Gao, and Levi Li, among others. The company develops smartphones, audio products, and related software, positioning itself as a design-focused challenger brand. Nothing released its first product, the Ear (1) wireless earbuds, in July 2021, followed by its debut smartphone, the Phone (1), in 2022. The company has since released successive generations, including the Phone (2), Ear (2), Phone (3), and Ear (3), and in 2026 the Phone (4a) and Phone (4a) Pro. Alongside its flagship devices, the company also introduced CMF by Nothing, a budget-oriented sub-brand that was spun off as a separate company in 2025, and then registered as a standalone Indian company in 2026. Nothing’s devices run Nothing OS, a closed source, customised version of Android preloaded with Google Mobile Services, and are distributed in markets including Europe, India, and North America. The company has raised venture funding from GV (formerly Google Ventures), EQT Ventures, and Tiger Global, along with high-profile individual investors including Tony Fadell and Casey Neistat. Its products are noted for their transparent hardware designs and the Glyph Interface, a system of LED lighting on the rear of its smartphones.