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Unfiltered: VC AMA with Emily Walsh

AI House’s VC AMA series continues with Emily Walsh, a partner at Georgian, a venture firm focused on AI and… Read More

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Unfiltered: VC AMA with Sid Trivedi

AI House’s VC AMA series features Sid Trivedi, a partner at Foundation Capital who invests in early-stage cybersecurity and IT… Read More

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Lunch & Learn: Inside Nuance Labs’ Push from Research to Market

Nuance Labs co-founders Fangchang Ma (CEO) and Edward Zhang (CTO) discuss building a Seattle research lab and taking it to… Read More

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Lunch & Learn: Fake Patients, Real Problems – Using Synthetic Data in Health Tech

SeaHealth Tech, in partnership with AI House, hosts a hands-on lunch workshop on a problem every health tech team runs… Read More

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Build Day #5: A Developer Hiring Event

AI House hosts a low-pressure hiring event where early-stage AI startups recruit engineers. Attendees sit at tables and rotate through… Read More

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Pitch Please #12

AI House’s monthly pitch session: five early-stage AI founders, chosen from the AI House Incubator applicant pool, each pitch and… Read More

Yoodli’s next act: AI that can teach workers almost any job skill

The startup known for AI practice sessions for sales pitches and job interviews is launching tools that build training courses, coach employees during meetings and track whether skills improve. The company was valued at more than $300 million in December. Read More

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AI Tinkerers Seattle: GTM Track (October)

AI Tinkerers Seattle’s monthly go-to-market track is for builders using AI and automation in sales, marketing and growth work. The… Read More

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Unfiltered: VC AMA with Sunil Nagaraj

AI House hosts a founder-focused conversation with Sunil Nagaraj of seed fund Ubiquity Ventures, which invests in “software beyond the… Read More

‘Seattle’s answer to YC Demo Day’: 25 startups pitch investors from across the country at AI House

AI House brought investors from Boston, New York, Colorado, the Bay Area and other cities to Seattle for a demo day where 25 early-stage startups pitched, many of them from outside the incubator’s own portfolio. The goal was to bring more outside capital to local founders. Read More

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AI in Manufacturing: Space Edition

A Seattle Space Week program on where robotics, AI and manufacturing meet, hosted by Seattle Hardware Week with Space Northwest… Read More

Opinion: It’s time for Seattle to believe in Seattle

Jacob Colker argues that Seattle has a branding problem, not a lack of talent, ambition or accomplishments. He lays out a five-step plan for the region’s tech community to start telling its own story. Read More

As Washington state’s AI task force winds down, the debate over how much to regulate is far from settled

Washington’s AI task force wrapped up two years of work with the state’s first AI laws on the books and its broader recommendations stalled in the Legislature. At a panel marking the end of the effort, consumer and labor advocates pushed for stronger rules while AI startups warned about the cost of complying. Read More

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Amazon’s next big business, Satya Nadella’s DIY app, and a VC’s rallying cry for Seattle tech

Microsoft and Amazon both beat cloud expectations this week, and Microsoft’s headcount fell for the first time since 2016. Also on the show: Satya Nadella builds a dashboard out of a Morgan Stanley analyst’s own report, Jeff Bezos names Amazon’s fourth pillar and AI House’s Jacob Colker makes the case for Seattle tech. Read More

Seattle Tech Week notebook: AI, startups, and the best insights and takeaways we heard

GeekWire’s Todd Bishop reports from Seattle Tech Week 2026, where more than 250 events made artificial intelligence the dominant topic. Insights and quotes from executives at OpenAI, Mistral AI, PitchBook, Madrona, Ascend and others. Read More

New map traces Washington state’s tech ‘universe’ to a few key hubs, and shows what’s at risk

The Washington Technology Industry Association’s new “Tech Universe Map” charts the founder lineage of 625 companies, showing that Microsoft and the University of Washington account for the largest share. A WTIA executive says the hubs forming next are mostly out-of-state companies with engineering centers here. Read More

Watch: A venture capitalist’s passionate speech — a rallying cry, really — about Seattle

AI House co-founder and managing director Jacob Colker may be Seattle’s number one cheerleader. In posts on LinkedIn, panel discussions and recent news stories, Colker is reminding Seattleites that this is a pretty special place. Read More

This startup lets companies teach AI about their brands — and the chatbots are listening

Optimly swept three awards at the Flywheel Investment Conference in Wenatchee and has closed an $800,000 pre-seed round backed by AI House, the Seattle startup studio formerly known as AI2 Incubator. The company builds a public index where brands can correct what AI chatbots say about them. Read More

Seattle’s AI2 Incubator rebrands as AI House, and adds key investor as managing director

The incubator was founded in 2014 inside the Allen Institute for AI — the Seattle research institute created by Microsoft co-founder Paul Allen — long before artificial intelligence became a household term. Its mission has been to help founders with the early work of company building. Read More

Devplan raises $2.5M to take on the product coordination work that AI coding is leaving behind

Devplan, a Seattle startup building software to coordinate product and engineering work, is emerging from stealth with $2.5 million in seed funding led by AI2 Incubator. Read More

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#SeattleAIWeek 2026 Opening Reception

Seattle AI Week 2026 kicks off at AI House on Pier 70 with conversations about AI policy and economic development,… Read More

Etzioni on AI: Ten Commandments for AI Startups

AI researcher, entrepreneur, and investor Oren Etzioni lays out 10 commandments for AI startups — covering business models, distribution, inference costs, and avoiding dependence on any single frontier model — preceded by 10 classics that apply to startups in general. Read More

AI House

Unfiltered: VC AMA with Emily Walsh

Unfiltered: VC AMA with Sid Trivedi

Lunch & Learn: Inside Nuance Labs’ Push from Research to Market

Lunch & Learn: Fake Patients, Real Problems – Using Synthetic Data in Health Tech

Build Day #5: A Developer Hiring Event

Pitch Please #12

Yoodli’s next act: AI that can teach workers almost any job skill

AI Tinkerers Seattle: GTM Track (October)

Unfiltered: VC AMA with Sunil Nagaraj

‘Seattle’s answer to YC Demo Day’: 25 startups pitch investors from across the country at AI House

AI in Manufacturing: Space Edition

Opinion: It’s time for Seattle to believe in Seattle

As Washington state’s AI task force winds down, the debate over how much to regulate is far from settled

Seattle Tech Week notebook: AI, startups, and the best insights and takeaways we heard

New map traces Washington state’s tech ‘universe’ to a few key hubs, and shows what’s at risk

Watch: A venture capitalist’s passionate speech — a rallying cry, really — about Seattle

This startup lets companies teach AI about their brands — and the chatbots are listening

Seattle’s AI2 Incubator rebrands as AI House, and adds key investor as managing director

Devplan raises $2.5M to take on the product coordination work that AI coding is leaving behind

#SeattleAIWeek 2026 Opening Reception

Etzioni on AI: Ten Commandments for AI Startups

Geeks Give Back: AI House and UW’s Center for an Informed Public to be honored at GeekWire Awards

Taylor Soper named director of Seattle’s AI House after remarkable run at GeekWire

‘I’m tired of that narrative’: Seattle VC pushes back on tech exodus talk

Why these startup founders are leaving Seattle for San Francisco

Ferguson’s AI balancing act: Washington governor wants to harness innovation while minimizing harms

Tech Moves: Smartsheet names CISO; Amazon attorney retires; former Carbon CEO joins Stacklok

‘They don’t have an AI House in Bellevue’: Seattle mayor takes a friendly jab at cross-town rival

Seattle unveils a ‘responsible AI plan’ to guide city’s tech use and boost the local economy