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5 tips for founders from Rob Go of NextView Ventures
Get to clarity, be a "heat-seeking missile," raise to an inflection point, and more advice
Talk Nerdy to Me: Cutting-edge AI research from the University of Washington
AI researchers shared their latest work at AI House
6 Go‑To‑Market Lessons for Startup Founders
Former Tableau and Gong exec Kelly Breslin Wright on GTM and sales for startups
What Founders Should Know About M&A
Leaders from OpenAI and AI House go behind-the-scenes on the acquisition process
6 takeaways from our AMA with Madrona's Tim Porter
Advice for founders from a longtime Seattle venture capitalist
GeekWire: A venture capitalist’s passionate speech — a rallying cry, really — about Seattle
GeekWire reports on AI House and our belief in Seattle's founders
Sen. Murray Hears AI House's Case for 'Small Tech' at Seattle Roundtable
The session brought together researchers, labor representatives, and state government officials to discuss AI regulation.
8 Marketing Lessons for Founders Building With AI Agents
How early-stage founders can market smarter using AI agents — without losing the taste, judgment, and authenticity that actually make marketing work.
What's Actually Working in Enterprise AI Right Now
Key takeaways from our discussion with Stripe, ArchAstro, and Devplan
AI2 Incubator Rebrands as AI House, Doubles Down on Seattle
We are doubling down on Seattle. Today, AI2 Incubator is becoming AI House (aihouse.vc). We have a new name, a stronger team, and a clearer focus: helping build the next generation of AI companies from Seattle.
Welcome Sri Chandrasekar, Managing Director
AI2 Incubator Rebrands to AI House, Names Sri Chandrasekar Managing Director For Sri Chandrasekar, so much of success in venture capital comes down to being in the right place at the right time. And as he steps into a new role as a managing director at AI House Incubator, he believes the stars are aligned.
Steve Yegge and SageOx at AI House
The future of software, how to stay defensible, and embracing the chaos.
Founder-led GTM in the AI era
Generic outbound is getting less effective and list quality matters more than people want to admit.
Welcome Taylor Soper as Director of Community and Programming
I'm excited to share that Taylor is joining AI House as Director of Community and Programming. Taylor is leaving his role as editor of GeekWire, where he spent more than 13 years covering the people, companies, and ideas that define Pacific Northwest tech, to help us take AI House to the next level.
Insights 15: The State of AI Agents in 2025: Balancing Optimism with Reality
2025, the year of AI agents, or the year of inflated agentic expectation? Dive into this Deep Research report with me.
Big news: Google Cloud + JP Morgan Chase are joining AI House as anchor sponsors 🚀
Seattle’s AI scene has been on display during AI Week, and today we’re excited to announce Google Cloud and JP Morgan Chase as official sponsors and deep-integration partners of AI House.
Insights 14: Navigating Up the Slope of Enlightenment
Launching Harmonious AI. How to go from picking an idea to raising seed in 2024.
Insights 13: Trough of Disillusionment
2024 will be a tough year for GenAI as we struggle to teach LLMs to learn from mistakes. AI development will be accessible to a broader audience.
Insights 12: Generative Voiceover, the Next MultiBillion Dollar Opportunity
The grand challenge is to create AI that is capable of voiceover, to approach the infinitely rich, nuanced, and expressive qualities of human spoken communication. Are we ready?
Insights 11: Peak of Inflated Expectation?
Review of AI progress 6 months after ChatGPT's release. We discuss agents, community models, AI infra/tooling, and AI safety.
Insights 10: Conversational Programming, AI Assistants, Foundation Model Operations
We survey opportunities for startups that want to use foundation models and their generative capabilities: conversational programming, AI assistants, and foundation model operations.
Insights 9: Stable Diffusion, Code Generation, Oren Joining Incubator
The AI2 Incubator added a world-renown AI expert and entrepreneur as a technical director, while our portfolio companies raised a total of $35M in funding this summer.
Insights 8: Founder Technical Toolkits, Flowdex, Yoodli, FM for Commerce
We review tools that are handy for founders building AI-first companies. AI-powered note taking tool Flowdex was launched, and public speaking coach Yoodli is open for everyone.
Insights 7: Open Source Large Models, Vespa
Open sourced: GPT-J, Bloom, PolyCoder. Also: Vespa search engine and few shot entity extraction with Cohere.
Insights 6: Measure Labs, Birch, and Augment
Measure Labs, Birch, and Augment raised seed rounds. Updates on foundation models from Big Tech.
Insights 5: Whylabs, Lexion, and WellSaid Labs
WhyLabs, Lexion, and WellSaid Labs raised A rounds. Why foundation models need to be large.
Insights 4: Yoodli Unstealthed, Large Language Models, Task Centric AI
Yoodli coming out of stealth, TheSequence profiling Whylabs, and a brief history of large language models. Will the future of AI be task-centric?
Insights 3: Ozette, Modulus, and the Transformers Effect
At the intersection of AI and the life sciences: Ozette and Modulus. The Transformers effect.
Insights 2: Weakly and Self-Supervised AI, Perceiver IO, OpenAI Codex
Profiling of alumni Emad Elwany and Greg Finak by TheSequence. Funding rounds announced in August, highlighting trends around computer vision, edge AI, conversational tech, remote health, therapeutics, Covid-19 pandemic adaptation, and more.
First Insight: Modulus, WellSaid, Applied AI
Michael Carlon joined the incubator team, Modulus Therapeutics' seed round, and WellSaid's series A. Modeling with limited labeled data, neural networks gaining vs tree-based methods, and ML tools and infrastructure.
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