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Founded in Seattle, the AI2 Incubator empowers founders creating AI first companies.
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The AI2 Incubator supports top-tier founders creating AI-first startups. Each year we help world-class engineers and entrepreneurs build their visions into high-growth startups.
Funding raised by our startups
$250M+
Collective valuation of our startups
$1.2B+
How We Help
Inventing the future, with you
Any VC can write a check, but what truly sets us apart is our unparalleled technical and AI expertise.
As a founder in our incubator, you’ll gain access to more than just advice. With our heritage at the Allen Institute for AI—founded by Microsoft co-founder Paul Allen—we’ve been singularly focused on commercializing AI long before it became a buzzword.
Our core team includes pioneers like Oren Etzioni, a leader in AI for over three decades, and our deep technical expertise means we don’t just back you financially—we help you build breakthrough products, navigate complex challenges, and accelerate your company’s growth.
How We Help
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Who Who Help
We work with founders and early stage teams from all different backgrounds.
We've helped dozens of startups succeed—either individual founders who are just getting going or small teams that already have a bit of momentum—and we can almost certainly help you as well.
It's time to control your own destiny and make your dent in the universe. Why not you? And why not now?
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Typical Founder Types
AI Researchers
Software Engineers
Scientists
Life, Bio, Physical, Health, Climate, Etc.
Product Leaders
Business, Design, PM, TPM, Etc
Small Existing
Teams/Startups
Inventing The Future
The next horizon of artificial intelligence: foundation models and beyond
Few periods in history have been more exciting to start a company than now.
Large-scale foundation models such as GPT, Claude, and DALL-E have taken the world of AI by storm. Previous AI tasks—from text categorization to object detection—can now be accomplished with much less curated labeled data. This is huge for many companies building AI solutions using prior technologies.
However, the new and even more exciting frontier is the exploration of using foundation models to generate things from email prose to software code, from design artifacts to visual arts. Companies such as Hugging Face and Stability AI continue to make steady progress making foundation models easily accessible, and the cost of training and running these types of models continues to decrease rapidly.
Through our deep expertise and our strategic relationship with AI2—a world-class AI research institute—we support entrepreneurs in turning these important technological advances into impactful products and companies.
Below are some of the broad areas of opportunities we are actively exploring.
Main Technical Focus Areas
01
Task-Centric AI
+
02
FMOps as an evolution of MLOps
+
03
Domain-Specific FMs (DSFMs)
+
04
Generative/Creative AI
+
05
Other
+
Portfolio Company Highlights
ALL COMPANIES
OZETTE
WHYLABS
LEXION
WELLSAID LABS
XNOR
Ozette unlocks the secrets of the immune system with AI
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Ready to build the next great company and change the world?
We specialize in helping founders from research, engineering, business, product, health, science, or bio backgrounds to build their vision into a high-growth startup, with AI and foundation models playing a major role.
Apply
→
You're ready to invent the future
We're your AI-first
to help get it done
Founded in Seattle, the AI2 Incubator empowers founders creating AI first companies.
Apply
→
The AI2 Incubator supports top-tier founders creating AI-first startups. Each year we help world-class engineers and entrepreneurs build their visions into high-growth startups.
Funding raised by our startups
$250M+
Collective valuation of our startups
$1.2B+
How We Help
Inventing the future, with you
Any VC can write a check, but what truly sets us apart is our unparalleled technical and AI expertise.
As a founder in our incubator, you’ll gain access to more than just advice. With our heritage at the Allen Institute for AI—founded by Microsoft co-founder Paul Allen—we’ve been singularly focused on commercializing AI long before it became a buzzword.
Our core team includes pioneers like Oren Etzioni, a leader in AI for over three decades, and our deep technical expertise means we don’t just back you financially—we help you build breakthrough products, navigate complex challenges, and accelerate your company’s growth.
How We Help
→
Who Who Help
We work with founders and early stage teams from all different backgrounds.
We've helped dozens of startups succeed—either individual founders who are just getting going or small teams that already have a bit of momentum—and we can almost certainly help you as well.
It's time to control your own destiny and make your dent in the universe. Why not you? And why not now?
Learn More
→
Typical Founder Types
AI Researchers
Software Engineers
Scientists
Life, Bio, Physical, Health, Climate, Etc.
Product Leaders
Business, Design, PM, TPM, Etc
Small Existing
Teams/Startups
Inventing The Future
The next horizon of artificial intelligence: foundation models and beyond
Few periods in history have been more exciting to start a company than now.
Large-scale foundation models such as GPT, Claude, and DALL-E have taken the world of AI by storm. Previous AI tasks—from text categorization to object detection—can now be accomplished with much less curated labeled data. This is huge for many companies building AI solutions using prior technologies.
However, the new and even more exciting frontier is the exploration of using foundation models to generate things from email prose to software code, from design artifacts to visual arts. Companies such as Hugging Face and Stability AI continue to make steady progress making foundation models easily accessible, and the cost of training and running these types of models continues to decrease rapidly.
Through our deep expertise and our strategic relationship with AI2—a world-class AI research institute—we support entrepreneurs in turning these important technological advances into impactful products and companies.
Below are some of the broad areas of opportunities we are actively exploring.
Main Technical Focus Areas
01
Task-Centric AI
+
02
FMOps as an evolution of MLOps
+
03
Domain-Specific FMs (DSFMs)
+
04
Generative/Creative AI
+
05
Other
+
Portfolio Company Highlights
ALL COMPANIES
OZETTE
WHYLABS
LEXION
WELLSAID LABS
XNOR
Ozette unlocks the secrets of the immune system with AI
LEARN MORE
Ready to build the next great company and change the world?
We specialize in helping founders from research, engineering, business, product, health, science, or bio backgrounds to build their vision into a high-growth startup, with AI and foundation models playing a major role.
Apply
→
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