Company-building partners
Company-building partners
Company-building partners
Company-building partners
Jacob Colker
Managing Director
Yifan Zhang
Managing Director
Sri Chandrasekar
Managing Director
Oren Etzioni
Technical Director
Ben Golden
General Counsel
Arthur Maloy
CFO
Andy Lai
Product & Design Lead
Taylor Soper
Director of Community and Programming
Audrey Yun
Community and Programming Manager
Emad Elwany
Venture Partner
Katie Drucker
Venture Partner
Bryan Hale
Venture Partner
Yulia Tsvetkov
Venture Partner
Dan Koch
Venture Partner
Pierre Martin
Venture Partner
Ani Kembhavi
Venture Partner
Maya Sukovaty
Operations Team
Anne Lambordo
Operations Team
Jan Samar
Operations Team
Stacy Apiyo
Operations Team
What founders value most about incubation is the partnership.
Our team has helped build, fund, advise, and operate more than 100 startups over the last 20 years. We bring that experience into the room every day, not as a rigid playbook, but as judgment earned from working through the hard parts with founders again and again.
We care deeply about the people we work with. We want founders to build great companies, and we want them to become sharper, more confident, more resilient company-builders along the way.
That means helping you sharpen the idea, pressure-test the market, make hard decisions, find the right people, and avoid mistakes you do not need to make. It also means telling you the truth, staying close when things get messy, and continuing to show up when the answer is not obvious.
The company is always founder-led. You are in the driver’s seat.
But you should not have to build alone.
What founders value most about incubation is the partnership.
Our team has helped build, fund, advise, and operate more than 100 startups over the last 20 years. We bring that experience into the room every day, not as a rigid playbook, but as judgment earned from working through the hard parts with founders again and again.
We care deeply about the people we work with. We want founders to build great companies, and we want them to become sharper, more confident, more resilient company-builders along the way.
That means helping you sharpen the idea, pressure-test the market, make hard decisions, find the right people, and avoid mistakes you do not need to make. It also means telling you the truth, staying close when things get messy, and continuing to show up when the answer is not obvious.
The company is always founder-led. You are in the driver’s seat.
But you should not have to build alone.
Our partners
We’ve assembled a coalition of world-class venture firms, global technology leaders, and civic partners who share our vision for applied Al.
We’ve assembled a coalition of world-class venture firms, global technology leaders, and civic partners who share our vision for applied Al.
Our History: Built from Seattle’s AI research roots
Our History: Built from Seattle’s AI research roots
AI House grew out of one of the earliest applied AI company-building efforts in the country.
Originally created as the AI2 Incubator, we were founded in 2014 inside the Allen Institute for AI, long before AI became the center of the technology industry. At the time, AI company-building was still early, technical, and often misunderstood. The work required research depth, patience, and a willingness to help founders turn emerging technology into real products. That foundation shaped how we build today.
Our roots are in a Seattle AI ecosystem that helped define important work across language, vision, machine learning, search, semantic systems, and applied research. Many of the people around AI House have spent years at the boundary between research and commercialization: helping technical founders move from breakthrough ideas to products customers can actually use.
Today, AI House is independent from the Allen Institute for AI. But we carry forward the useful parts of that history: technical seriousness, applied research depth, and a belief that AI companies need more than capital to get started.
AI House grew out of one of the earliest applied AI company-building efforts in the country.
Originally created as the AI2 Incubator, we were founded in 2014 inside the Allen Institute for AI, long before AI became the center of the technology industry. At the time, AI company-building was still early, technical, and often misunderstood. The work required research depth, patience, and a willingness to help founders turn emerging technology into real products. That foundation shaped how we build today.
Our roots are in a Seattle AI ecosystem that helped define important work across language, vision, machine learning, search, semantic systems, and applied research. Many of the people around AI House have spent years at the boundary between research and commercialization: helping technical founders move from breakthrough ideas to products customers can actually use.
Today, AI House is independent from the Allen Institute for AI. But we carry forward the useful parts of that history: technical seriousness, applied research depth, and a belief that AI companies need more than capital to get started.
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