Seattle’s home for AI builders

A company-building community where AI founders share hard-won lessons face to face, turning one team’s breakthrough into everyone’s head start

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Founders pitch their AI startups to builders, operators, and investors—and get candid live feedback. Come to sharpen your story or watch strong founders take hard questions.
Work from Pier 70 for the day alongside AI founders and engineers. Bring your laptop, meet the community, and see if AI House feels like home.
Build a real app or prototype with the latest AI tools, alongside others doing the same. Less lecture, more keyboard—leave with something you made.
Small, recurring peer groups for founders, go-to-market leaders, and technical leads. Trade practical insights with people navigating the same work in real time.
See what leading AI startups across Seattle have actually shipped. Meet the builders shaping the region’s next wave of applied AI.
Unscripted conversations with founders, operators, and investors who have been through it. Ask the questions that usually stay behind closed doors.
Seattle’s AI community gathers on the Pier 70 waterfront for an annual summer celebration. Join 1,500+ builders, founders, operators, and investors.
Candid conversations with the people shaping AI and company-building. Hear real questions and hard-won perspective from leaders at the frontier.
During Seattle’s biggest tech weeks, AI House becomes the hub. Find your home base for the conversations, events, and people moving the city forward.
A relaxed gathering for women building AI companies in Seattle. Share what’s working, make meaningful connections, and enjoy a drink together.
A private forum for Incubator founders to discuss the hard things: pricing, fundraising, boards, cofounders, and more. Go deeper with your cohort.
Practical working sessions on go-to-market—from first customers and pricing to sales cycles and ideal customers. Leave with tactics you can use right away.

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Resident experts

Our community is anchored by Resident Experts who bring real technical and operating depth. They include applied AI research leaders, founders, builders, engineering executives, product and design leaders, and startup operators who have built through the problems others are still figuring out.

Aaron Goldfeder
Director, CEO, Founder
AZX
Abhinav Shukla
Applied Scientist
Amazon Fulfilment Technologies & Robotics
Adam Burgh
Founder and CEO
Stealth Startup
Adam Tratt
Founder / CEO / CMO
Haiku Deck
Ajit Banerjee
Architect
Hugging Face
Alex Maestretti
Co-Founder
Twnstr
Alexandra Taylor
Co-Founder & COO | Author
Sphere
Amirsina Eskandarifar
Senior Data & Applied Scientist
Microsoft
Andy Peng
Builder at Amazon | NeurIPS25 Co-Chair
Amazon Web Services, NeurIPS
Angela Steffens (Thomas)
Founder, Full Stack Engineer
Alternate Futures
Anh Nguyen
Senior Researcher
Apple
Anna Fuller
Head of Product
Big Sur AI
Anthony Anderson
Scientist-Engineer / Wearables at FDA
FDA, University of Washington
Archis Gore
Senior Staff Production Engineer
Meta
Arvind Vivekanandan
Software Development Engineer
Amazon
Ash Bhoopathy
Co-Founder and CEO
Poseidon
Ashish Sinha
AI Strategic Growth Leader
AWS
Brewster Stanislaw
Product Leader, Entrepreneur, Investor
Brian Fioca
Founder, Advisor
RescueTime
Bridget Perry
Chief Marketing Officer and Advisor
Tola Capital | Hexus
Bruce Brewington
Founder
Korgo
Camron Lee
Manager of Product Management
Valant
Choong Ng
Engineer | Principal
Gumshoe AI | Transitive LLC
Cole Krumbholz
Founder, Head of Product
Formspree
Corbin Cunningham
Senior Staff UX Research Manager
Google
Courtnie Paschall
Founder | PhD Neural Engineering + Data Science
Invirtualis.ai
Dan Koch
CTO, Advisor
Tomo
Daniel Kang
Head of Organic and Agentic Search
Expedia
Daryn Nakhuda
Head of Software
Waabi
David Pitman
Co-Founder
Stealth Startup
David Uvalle
Lead Machine Learning Engineer | AI, ML, Search
Adobe
Desney Tan
Corporate VP and Managing Director
Microsoft Research
Diego Oppenheimer
Head of Product | Co-Founder
Hyperparam | Guardrails AI
Dirk Groeneveld
Principal Software Engineer
Ai2 Research Institute
Dwight Ware
Founder
MindCycle
Edward Zhang
Chief Technology Officer
Nuance Labs
Eran Megiddo
CEO and Co-founder
Maximal Learning
Eric Aderhold
Software Engineer IV
Code.org
Eric Burns
Head of AI Partner Strategy
Anthropic
Eric Chen
Director, Head of Engineering
SpruceID
Erik Selberg
CTO & Co-Founder
Wild Zebra
Erin Torgerson
Product Manager | Quality Engineering
Schemantic.io | Storytellers.ai
Ethan Shen
PhD Student | Research Intern
Ai2 Research Institute
Fangchang Ma
Co-founder & CEO
Nuance Labs
Gaurav Oberoi
VP of Product
Docusign
Ghazaleh Saniee Monfared
Senior UX Researcher
Microsoft
Greg Young
Senior Director of Product Management
Collectors Universe
Henry Tan
Principal Engineer
Amazon
Hetu Kamisetty
Co-founder & CTO
Xaira Therapeutics
Himanshu Tayal
Head of Product | Generative AI for Developers
Amazon Web Services
Huong Ngo
Member of Technical Staff
Vercept
Ian Wong
Co-founder & CEO
Summation
Jared Roesch
Distinguished Engineer
NVIDIA
Jeff Kramer
Lead Applied Research Scientist
Microsoft
Jiayi (J.L.) Liang
Product Leader, Reality Labs Research
Meta
Joe Belfiore
Vice Chairman of the Board
Kahoot!
Joe Braidwood
Co-founder & CEO
Yara AI
Joe Heitzeberg
Founder
AI Tinkerers
John Alioto
Startup Evangelist
Google Cloud
Jonathan Tice
Founder & Fractional CRO
Fit to Scale
Joseph Sunga
Director of Product Management
Waabi
Julia Schwarz
Software Engineer | Co-founder of PlayScout
Justin Ith
Co-Founder & CEO
Alpyne Labs
Kai Chen
Engineering Executive / Technology Entrepreneur
Angel Investor
Keith Trnka
ML | Engineering Leadership | Co-founder
Stealth Startup
Kiana Ehsani
CEO and Co-founder
Vercept
Larry Arnstein
CTO & Co-Founder
Augmented AI Labs
Lee-Ming Zen
CTO
Yahoo
Leon Gatys
Machine Learning Researcher
Apple
Liza Ray
Head of Operations
Synthesize Bio
Luis Salazar
Co-Founder | Data Scientist
Sobek.ai | Nucleate | AI4SP
Mariano Gabitto
Assistant Investigator
Allen Institute
Marius Ciocirlan
CEO and Co-founder
MarkOS
Mark Buckler
Founder & CEO
Soundry AI
Matt Deitke
AI Researcher
Meta
Matt Hocking
Chief Product Officer
Type
Matt Lerner
Executive Coach
Max Kleiman-Weiner
Assistant Professor
University of Washington
Meng Wang
CEO and Co-founder
Artly AI
Mike Fridgen
Venture Partner
Madrona
Mike Mortensen
Investor and Advisor, Enterprise AI
Mortensen Ventures
Milav Shah
Head of Engineering
Amazon
Mohammad Rastegari
CEO and Co-founder
Elastix.AI
Musa Ozdem
Principal Tech Lead
Carnival Corporation
Nikesh Parekh
CEO and Co-founder
Provn
Nimisha Sharath
Product Manager
Uber
Nirav Shah
Partner | Advisor
Physician on FIRE | Carbon Health
Oussame Elachqar
Co-founder
Oumi
Oyvind Tafjord
Research Scientist
Google DeepMind
Patrick Ellis
CTO & Co-Founder
Snapbar
Pierre Brunelle
CEO and Co-founder
Pixeltable
Ramya Jayaraman
AI Strategy Leader | CTO
OrthoBerry
Ranjay Krishna
Assistant Professor
University of Washington
Ricardo Martin
Researcher & Engineer / Co-Founder
SpAItial AI
Rob Gruhl
Senior Principal Technical Program Manager
Nordstrom
Rodney Kinney
Principal ML Engineer
Ai2 Research Institute
Ronan Le Bras
Research Scientist
Ai2 Research Institute
Ross Finman
CEO and Founder
Augmodo
Ryan Turner
Founder, CTO
Cielara AI
Sarah Andrabi
Co-founder & CTO
Liminary
Saranya Selvamani
Building AI x Commerce | Ex-Amazon
Stealth AI Startup
Satya Singh
Co-founder, CPO & President
Scispot.io
Scott Ransom
Senior Director, Industry and Innovation
HAND ERC
Selvan Senthivel
Chief Technologist/Advisor
GE Healthcare
Shihong Liu
Software Engineer
Amazon
Shubhkarman Singh
Machine Learning / Automation Engineer
Nokia
Siddhant Sahu
Product Management
Amazon Web Services (AWS)
Somesh Khandelwal
Product and Systems Engineering Leader
Menlo Ventures | Stealth Startup
Sonu Aggarwal
Entrepreneur
TiE Seattle
Srujan Jonnadula
Principal Software Engineering Manager
Microsoft
Steve Hall
Venture Partner
Cercano Management
Tanmay Gupta
Senior Research Assistant
Ai2 Research Institute
Trevor Crosby
Applied Machine Learning
John Deere, City University of Seattle
Tyler Shimko
Applied AI Scientist - Drug Discovery
NVIDIA
Vijay Gaikwad
Staff ML Engineer
Meta
Woody Floyd
Vice President, Solutions R&D
Launch by NTT DATA
Xuchen Yao
CEO and Co-founder
Seasalt.ai
Yangxue Deng
Senior Product Designer
Aspect Software
Yucheng Low
System Architect
Hugging Face
Zeeshan Zia
CEO and Co-founder
Retrocausal