We help entrepreneurs form new teams and build AI-first startups.

We bring together world-class engineers, researchers, and entrepreneurs to create new companies together from scratch. We help them come up with ideas, find co-founders, engage pilot customers, define their product, incorporate the latest A.I. techniques into their technology, and raise millions of dollars in venture funding.

Over the last six years, we have created 20+ companies that are collectively worth $750M+ in valuation, have collectively raised $150M+ in venture funding, and have collectively created 500+ jobs. Even more impressively, more than half of that growth occurred in the last year.

But beneath those numbers, the missions of those companies are even more important. These startups are helping immigrants to improve their communication skills (Yoodli), helping scientists to significantly accelerate cancer research (Ozette and Modulus), helping A.I. practitioners monitor critical algorithms in the wild (WhyLabs), helping business ops and legal teams to be much more efficient (Lexion), helping millions of creators to more easily produce voice content (WellSaid), turning your smartphone into a powerful medical device (MeasureLabs), and so much more. 

Our unique advantages come from our core team's expertise and our exclusive partnership with the Paul Allen Institute for A.I. (aka "AI2"). Created in 2014 by Microsoft cofounder Paul Allen, AI2 has 200+ PhDs, researchers, engineers, professors, and support staff—and is well known for its contributions to the A.I. research community including 600+ papers, 20+ best paper awards, and numerous products/open source offerings including SemanticScholar, AllenNLP, and more.

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Reposting given tech layoffs continue in 2024, which is scary, but especially for those on H-1B VISAs. Soundarya Balasubramani shared 7 VC funds & accelerators focused on helping immigrant founders.

➡ ALSO - This position is ideal for CTO-level folks wanting to work in AI with a social and human-centered cause:

An AI2 Incubator #GenAI #Immigration Startup is looking for a Technical Co-Founder / CTO. The startup's mission is to "reshape the (broken) process of immigration in the U.S. and we need *your* help, to help millions of people."
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Today we’re announcing our $30M AI Fund II!

Backed by Madrona, Sequoia Capital, Khosla Ventures, Evergreen Gavekal Ventures, IRONGREY and other leading LPs, we’re ready to invest in building the next wave of world changing AI-first companies.

AI Fund II is a 3x increase over Fund I. More exciting, our 20+ teams have now collectively raised over $160M+ in venture capital and have a collective valuation of over $800M—60% of which was created in just the last two years.

With Fund II, our community is poised to drive a new wave of AI-first innovation that will transform our world. With years of new resources, we are ready to partner with the next generation of visionary entrepreneurs to help them turn their bold ideas into game-changing companies.

There are many people to recognize in helping us to close this fund, the most important are our entrepreneurs, whose past performance has given us the credibility to secure our next chapter. We offer our deepest gratitude to the founders and hardworking teammates of Ozette Technologies, Modulus Therapeutics, WellSaid Labs, WhyLabs, Lexion, Birch.ai, MajorBoost, Augment AI, Yoodli, Unwrap.ai, CalmWave, Roboto AI, Meetingflow, Xnor.ai, MeasureLabs, Kitt.ai, and more. Thanks for making this community so incredible! 🙏

BUILDING AN AI-FIRST STARTUP? LET’S TALK!!! Both solo entrepreneurs and small teams alike, please reach out: ai2incubator.com

Our AI2 Incubator was born at the Allen Institute for AI (AI2), and we partner with entrepreneurs that use revolutionary AI models to create products that people love. We typically act as a small minority cofounder and will invest an average of $600,000 in addition to providing up to 12 months of general entrepreneurship support services through an AI-first perspective. This culminates in helping startups to raise millions of dollars of seed funding.

We also offer significant additional benefits that are unique to founders that are building an AI-first company: A strategic relationship with the AI2 Research Institute, a private community of 100+ AI-first founders and executives, extensive applied foundation models expertise, significant recruiting support, and much more.

Ultimately, AI-first companies have unique challenges and it takes real expertise to overcome and win. It’s so much more than slapping a front end skin on top of an API.

More information on our unique company building process is available at ai2incubator.com/howwehelp

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