Facts
- HQ
- Seattle, WA, US
- Sectors
- AI
- Founded
- 2023 Seattle business license
- Type
- Corporation Seattle business license
- Registered name
- AI House Inc Seattle business license
- Stage
- Pre-seed, Seed
Community
AI House is a company-building community, incubator, and capital.
- Workspace
- Online forum
- Events
- Membership program
- Free
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Workspaces
- 2801 Alaskan Way, Seattle, WA 98121
Yifan Zhang announces AI House Demo Day: 25 teams pitched in Seattle with 42 investors attending
AI House held its first AI House Demo Day in Seattle where 25 teams (half portfolio companies) presented to an audience that included 42 investors; founders, investors, and organizers connected through pitches, meetings, and events around the day.
Shankar Sundaram and Ryan Schaffer open East West Club: 8,000‑sq‑ft indoor golf, social and wellness hub in Queen Anne
Seattle tech veteran Shankar Sundaram and co-founder Ryan Schaffer are converting an 8,000-square-foot former industrial metal shop in Queen Anne into East West Club, an indoor golf, social, and wellness hub combining high-tech simulators, a café, lounge spaces, and workout/sauna facilities as a family-friendly alternative to traditional country clubs.
AI House hosts Demo Day in Seattle with 25 startups pitching to investors flown in from Boston, New York, Colorado and the Bay Area
AI House hosted a demo day in Seattle where 25 early-stage startups—many outside the incubator’s portfolio—pitched to investors flown in from Boston, New York, Colorado, the Bay Area and other cities to increase outside capital for local founders. Organizers aimed to showcase diverse Seattle startups, from revenue-generating companies to ambitious technologists, and attracted both national and local venture investors.
Taylor Soper thanks Seattle founders, investors, partners after AI House’s first Demo Day
Taylor Soper thanked Seattle founders, investors, partners, and the AI House team after the first-ever AI House Demo Day, highlighting founder practice, event production, and supporting organizations. He acknowledged specific contributors including Maya Sukovaty, Andy Lai, Audrey Yun, Wilson Sonsini (Craig Sherman), JPMorganChase, Google Cloud, photographer Dan DeLong, and videographer Carlin Ma.
Hearvana AI Raises $6M Oversubscribed Pre-seed Led by Point72 Ventures and SCB 10X
Hearvana AI, a Seattle startup building auditory intelligence to improve sound perception for humans and machines, raised $6 million in an oversubscribed pre-seed round led by Point72 Ventures and SCB 10X. The company will expand engineering and go-to-market teams and launch commercial pilots with consumer electronics and AI partners.
Yoodli Expands to 60-Person Headquarters at Seattle’s Pier 70, Growing from Three Offices
Yoodli expanded from three offices to a 60-person headquarters at Seattle’s Pier 70, demonstrating the advantages of operating within a connected AI and flexible workspace ecosystem.
Alejandro Castellano announces Loop Studio and Caddi Agent to map and standardize back-office processes in 20-minute sessions
Alejandro Castellano announces Loop Studio, a tool (and Caddi Agent) designed to document and standardize complex back-office processes by surfacing manual work, interviewing the person who performs tasks, and converting ambiguous practices into deterministic procedures. The platform aims to replace months of discovery with a twenty-minute human-led session and is now available for trial at trycaddi.com.
Caddi launches AI agent to build and govern firms' back-office AI agents with full audit on Aug. 24, 2026
Caddi launched an AI agent on Aug. 24, 2026 that discovers a firm's repetitive back-office work, trains on each process like a new hire, and builds and governs the firm's AI agents with full auditability, targeting industries such as wealth management and law firms.
Washington AI task force ends after two years as state enacts four of 11 recommendations, debate over stricter rules vs. compliance costs persists
Washington’s two-year AI task force produced the state’s first AI laws and recommended additional regulations, but legislators adopted only four of its eleven proposals, leaving debate between consumer/labor advocates pushing for stronger rules and tech startups warning about compliance costs unresolved.
Seattle Tech Week 2026 Draws ~250 Events Over Five Days, Showcasing City’s Tech Talent and Innovation
Seattle Tech Week 2026 ran five days with roughly 250 events across diverse venues, celebrating Seattle’s dense tech talent and community connections while highlighting themes from founders, investors, and academics. Organizers view the event as a community-led showcase that reinforced Seattle’s historic and ongoing contributions to cloud, AI, and other innovations.
Amazon's next big business, Satya Nadella's DIY app, and a VC's rallying cry for Seattle tech
This week: Microsoft and Amazon both reported quarterly numbers, and both stocks rose on cloud results that beat expectations. Is AI spending is paying off in real business? And in related news, Microsoft sees a rare annual headcount decline, hitting product R&D hardest. Plus: Satya Nadella builds a Power BI dashboard out of an analyst's research report, and touts it on the earnings call to make a bigger point. Jeff Bezos names Amazon's chips business as the long-awaited fourth pillar. And AI House managing director Jacob Colker delivers a much-needed pep talk for Seattle tech, calling on the region to…
Jacob Colker announces Seattle startup gathering at Showbox Market thanking J.P. Morgan, Google, Fenwick & West and Pilot.com
Jacob Colker thanks sponsors, Seattle founders, and the AI House team after a gathering at the historic Showbox Market, expressing enthusiasm for the local startup community.
WTIA’s 2026 ‘Tech Universe Map’ shows Microsoft (161) and UW (143) produced most founders of 625 mapped Washington tech firms
The Washington Technology Industry Association's 2026 "Tech Universe Map" visualizes founder lineage for 625 Washington tech companies and finds Microsoft (161 companies) and the University of Washington (143) are the largest founder hubs, followed by Amazon (58) and Google (20). WTIA says the map highlights regional connectivity, is broader than the 2015 Seattle-focused version, and signals emerging hubs are often out-of-state companies with local engineering centers.
AI House Co-founder Jacob Colker Delivers Rallying Cry for Seattle’s Tech Community at Showbox Market
AI House co-founder and managing director Jacob Colker delivered a passionate rallying speech at a Seattle Tech Week event, urging Seattle to reconnect around community and recognize its outsized impact on technology. He praised local institutions and companies like Boeing, Amazon, Microsoft and the University of Washington while warning that residents have grown numb to the city’s achievements.
Seattle Startup Optimly Raises $800,000 Pre-Seed to Develop AI Brand Profiles, Declines $50,000 Relocation Offer
Seattle startup Optimly raised $800,000 in a pre-seed funding round led by Mighty Capital and AI House, offering AI practitioners authoritative brand profiles through its AI Brand Index and BrandVault products. Founder Apurva Luty declined a $50,000 relocation offer to stay at the Seattle AI House incubator.
Devplan Raises $2.5M Seed Round Led by AI2 Incubator for AI-Native Product Development
Devplan, a Seattle-based AI-native product development intelligence platform, emerged from stealth announcing a $2.5 million seed funding round led by AI2 Incubator with participation from Acequia Capital, Mighty Capital, Grand Ventures, and eLab Ventures.
AI2 Incubator Rebrands as AI House and Hires Former Point72 Partner Sri Chandrasekar as Managing Director
AI House, formerly AI2 Incubator, has appointed Sri Chandrasekar, a former Point72 partner, as managing director and implemented a residency requirement for founders at its Seattle headquarters.
Seattle-Based AI Startup Yoodli Doubles Workforce Amid $120M Fundraising by AI House Incubator
Seattle is attracting AI startups like Yoodli, which develops AI speech-coaching software and recently doubled its staff to about 100 employees. Yoodli originated from the AI2 Incubator (now AI House) on Seattle's waterfront, which has raised around $120 million since 2020 to fund emerging startups.
Seattle Startup Devplan Raises $2.5M Seed to Launch Weaver, an AI Tool Automating Product Team Coordination
Devplan, a Seattle startup founded by industry veterans Chris Bee and Anton Safonov, raised $2.5 million in seed funding led by AI2 Incubator to launch Weaver, a software that automates coordination and status reporting for product and engineering teams. Weaver integrates with tools like GitHub and Slack to provide real-time project tracking and reduce meetings and manual updates.
Devplan Raises $2.5M Seed Round to Cut AI Coordination Costs by 3.5x Using Real-Time Knowledge Graph
Devplan, a Seattle startup founded by former Uber and Amazon executives, raised $2.5M in seed funding led by AI2 Incubator to develop a real-time knowledge graph that reduces AI coordination costs by 3.5 times for product and engineering teams.
Oren Etzioni Outlines 10 Key Commandments for AI Startups Following 10 Classic Startup Rules
Oren Etzioni shares ten foundational commandments for AI startups focused on business models, distribution, costs, and model dependency, preceded by ten general startup principles from industry veterans. These guidelines draw on his extensive experience as an AI entrepreneur and investor to help founders navigate unique challenges in AI ventures.
GeekWire Awards to Honor AI House and UW’s Center for an Informed Public for Advancing AI and Media Literacy on May 7
The GeekWire Awards will honor AI House and the University of Washington's Center for an Informed Public for their contributions to AI innovation and education on misinformation. The awards ceremony will be held on May 7 at Showbox SoDo in Seattle, recognizing impactful community initiatives in the Pacific Northwest.
Seattle Startup Glacis Hires Microsoft Azure Vet Rohit Tatachar as CTO to Launch AI Monitoring Tools
Seattle startup Glacis appointed longtime Microsoft Azure executive Rohit Tatachar as CTO and co-founder to develop tamper-proof AI behavior records. The company launched open-source tools enabling monitoring and control of AI agents to ensure safety and accountability.
Convoy Co-founder Dan Lewis Shares Startup Culture and Leadership Lessons at 2026 Seattle AI Summit
Dan Lewis, Convoy co-founder and Microsoft VP, shared lessons from building the now-shuttered unicorn startup at the 2026 Seattle AI Startup Summit, emphasizing deliberate culture shaping, codifying values based on proven practices, and ensuring employees understand the 'why' behind decisions. His insights aim to help entrepreneurs create strong startups by fostering ownership and intentional culture design.
Pay-i Founder David Tepper Wins GeekWire’s AI Startup Pitch Competition with Advanced AI Spend Management Platform
At GeekWire’s Agents of Transformation event in Seattle, four AI startups—Pay-i, Cascade, Autessa, and GemaTEG—pitched their ideas to a panel of judges, with Pay-i founder David Tepper winning for his AI spend management platform that accurately tracks AI costs beyond token usage. Judges praised Tepper for his strong presentation skills and ability to answer questions under pressure.
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Jacob Colker Founder, Co-Founder and Managing Director
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Yifan Zhang Founder, Founder and Managing Director
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Oren Etzioni Technical Director
