Inflection
Facts
- HQ
- Seattle, Washington, USA
- Sectors
- Software Development
- Founded
- 2020
- Employees
- 47
- Stage
- Seed
- Total raised
- $12.6M SEC Form D filings Total of this company's SEC Form D filings
- Last round
- $7.6M · May 2024 SEC Form D
- Founders
- Aaron, Dave, Oak
Foundation Models Go Vertical with leaders from Open AI, Mistral, Clarify and Oumi
In this episode of Shift AI, Manos, CEO of Umi, Patrick Thompson, CEO of Clarify, Brian Hall, CMO of Mistral AI, and Ben Gaffney, Deputy General Counsel at OpenAI, join host Boaz Ashkenazy for a live panel recorded at Seattle Tech Week on who actually owns intelligence in the enterprise AI era. One panelist argues that any enterprise still treating a frontier model as its core intelligence layer is renting something it should own, and predicts that in two years we'll look back at CTOs defending that approach the way we look back at driving a Ferrari to the grocery…
Starcloud Becomes Fastest Y Combinator Unicorn at $1.1B as Fusion Leader Helion Tops GeekWire 200 with $15.5B Valuation
The latest GeekWire 200 highlights a shift in the Pacific Northwest startup scene toward physical products like rockets, fusion reactors, and space-based data centers, with Starcloud becoming the fastest Y Combinator unicorn valued at $1.1 billion. Helion maintains the top spot with a $15.5 billion valuation, while notable companies like Stoke Space, Overland AI, and new unicorn XBOW also make significant moves.
Inflection.io Acquires Keyplay, Reuniting Seattle Entrepreneurs Aaron Bird and Adam Schoenfeld
Inflection.io, led by CEO Aaron Bird, acquired Keyplay, reuniting longtime Seattle entrepreneurs with 15 years of collaboration history. Keyplay CEO Adam Schoenfeld joins Inflection as CMO, while the combined company now operates with 47 employees and an expanded global presence.
People
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Aaron Bird Founder, Co-Founder & CEO, Executive Officer, Director
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Dave Rigotti Founder, Co-founder / Marketing
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Adam Schoenfeld Executive, CMO, Former Chief Marketing Officer, Advisor