Taylor Soper
Taylor Soper is Director of Community and Programming at AI House and serves as a board member at the University of Washington, Board of Student Publications. He previously held editorial and reporting roles at GeekWire and Major League Baseball, with expertise in technology startups, programming, and community building.
Pioneer Square Labs raises $12.5M from 13 VCs and 50+ angels; Foundry Group led, Brad Feld joins board
Pioneer Square Labs, a new Seattle startup studio co-founded by Geoff Entress, Greg Gottesman, Mike Galgon and Ben Gilbert, raised $12.5 million from 13 VC firms and over 50 angels. Foundry Group led the round and Brad Feld will join PSL's board.
UW Spinout AnswerDash Raises $2.9M Seed Round Led by Voyager Capital to Expand Contextual Help Platform
UW spinout AnswerDash raised $2.9 million in a seed round led by Voyager Capital to grow its contextual help platform that embeds instant, machine-learning powered answers directly into websites. CEO Bill Colleran says the technology reduces repetitive support requests and shopping abandonment by giving users intuitive, in-place answers while browsing.
Kitchenbowl founders Ryan Waliany and Serena Wu relocate recipe app startup from Bay Area to Seattle; app hits No. 15 on App Store
Kitchenbowl founders Ryan Waliany and Serena Wu moved their four-person recipe app startup from near San Francisco to Seattle to access lower costs, a less competitive hiring market and untapped engineering talent; within weeks of launch the app reached No. 15 in Apple’s App Store Food & Drink category.
Organizations
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AI House Director of Community and Programming 2026–present · current
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University of Washington, Board of Student Publications Board Member 2016–present · current
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AI House Director of Community and Programming · current
Education
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University of Washington Executive Development Program, Business Administration and Management, General · 2021–2022
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University of Washington Bachelor, Business, Journalism · 2008–2012
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Foster School of Business B.A., Business Administration · 2008–2012
