Founders

231 proven founders from Inception Studio's invitation-only AI accelerator. Full catalog also available as JSON.

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Category ai tools healthtech productivity vertical saas

Location Boston Europe Japan Los Angeles New York City North Bay Other California Other Us San Francisco Bay Area Seattle

231 founders

Aaron Yang

Dexicon

1× founder

Cohort 1 · San Francisco Bay Area
Adam Cohen Hillel

Secondly

1 successful exit

4× founder

Cohort 19 · San Francisco Bay Area
Adi Badhwar

3× founder

Cohort 15 · San Francisco Bay Area
Adithya Aggarwal

Pie Labs

1× founder

Cohort 13 · San Francisco Bay Area
Aditya Agarkar

1 successful exit

2× founder

Cohort 6 · San Francisco Bay Area
Akhil Ravidas

Cohort 8 · Los Angeles
Alec Coston

PupPilot

1× founder

Cohort 17 · Other California
Alex Beatson

Co-Founder · Axiom Bio

Cohort 5 · San Francisco Bay Area
Alex Gruebele

2× founder

Cohort 5 · San Francisco Bay Area
Anand Atreya

2 successful exits

3× founder

Cohort 4 · San Francisco Bay Area
Andrew Radin

5× founder

Cohort 5 · San Francisco Bay Area
Andy Chou

Founder

1 successful exit

2× founder

Cohort 1 · San Francisco Bay Area
Anna Yuan

2× founder

Cohort 13 · San Francisco Bay Area
Anna-Julia Storch

Dryft

1× founder

Cohort 5 · San Francisco Bay Area
Ardalan Benam

1 successful exit

3× founder

Cohort 16 · San Francisco Bay Area
Arne Michalson

1 successful exit

3× founder

Cohort 15 · San Francisco Bay Area
Arpan Bhattacharya

TISC

1× founder

Cohort 17 · San Francisco Bay Area
Ashlee Reynolds

1× founder

Cohort 23 · Other Us
Ashwath Rajan

1 successful exit

3× founder

Cohort 3 · New York City
Ashwini Iyer

1× founder

Cohort 7 · San Francisco Bay Area
Asmau Ahmed

1 successful exit

3× founder

Cohort 16 · New York City
Assaf Einat

1× founder

Cohort 6 · San Francisco Bay Area
Avinash Uddaraju

1 successful exit

3× founder

Cohort 21 · Other Us
Ayooluwa Odemuyiwa

Aethex

2× founder

Cohort 20 · Europe
Bayley Wang

PrismaX

1 successful exit

3× founder

Cohort 11 · San Francisco Bay Area
Ben Wilentz

Cohort 8 · San Francisco Bay Area
Benjamin Turtel

1 successful exit

2× founder

New York City
Bo DellaMaria

Hyperscale

2× founder

Cohort 19 · San Francisco Bay Area
Brad Hart

3 successful exits

5× founder

Cohort 21 · Other Us
Brian Bentow

3 successful exits

6× founder

Cohort 23 · Los Angeles
Brian Tuan

Cohort 1 · San Francisco Bay Area
Bruce Adams

1× founder

Cohort 19 · San Francisco Bay Area
Bryan Downie

1× founder

Cohort 19 · San Francisco Bay Area
Camilo Ruiz

Luva AI

1× founder

Cohort 2 · San Francisco Bay Area
Cara Rosengard

Cohort 14 · San Francisco Bay Area
Carmen Kivisild

1× founder

Cohort 15 · Other Us
Catherine Qu

1× founder

Cohort 18 · San Francisco Bay Area
Chandan Kaur

1× founder

Cohort 17 · San Francisco Bay Area
Chandler Gonzales

1× founder

Cohort 9 · San Francisco Bay Area
Chandra Ranganathan

1× founder

Cohort 10 · San Francisco Bay Area
Chong Han Chua

2× founder

Cohort 12 · San Francisco Bay Area
CK Chang Kim

Co-founder & CEO · Saywise
CK Chang Kim

Saywise

2 successful exits

2× founder

Cohort 6 · Los Angeles
Daniel Edrisian

Alex

1 successful exit

1× founder

Cohort 6 · San Francisco Bay Area
Dare Emrani

Scorecard AI

2× founder

Cohort 4 · San Francisco Bay Area
David Evans

Cohort 8 · San Francisco Bay Area
David Huie

1× founder

Cohort 16 · San Francisco Bay Area
David Lynn

3 successful exits

5× founder

Cohort 22 · San Francisco Bay Area
Deb Pandra

1× founder

Cohort 14 · San Francisco Bay Area
Dennis Li

Cohort 1 · New York City
Derek S. Chan

2× founder

Cohort 6 · San Francisco Bay Area
Deshraj Yadav

Mem0

2× founder

Cohort 9 · San Francisco Bay Area
Devin Owen

Greenflash

1 successful exit

2× founder

Cohort 15 · San Francisco Bay Area
Deyan Vitanov

Jest

4 successful exits

4× founder

Cohort 3 · San Francisco Bay Area
Dhaval Shreyas

Pie Labs

1 successful exit

2× founder

Cohort 13 · San Francisco Bay Area
Dhruv Kulkarni

3× founder

Cohort 3 · San Francisco Bay Area
Dina Katabi

1× founder

Cohort 14 · Boston
Dina Yerlan

1 successful exit

1× founder

Cohort 3 · San Francisco Bay Area
Doug Loyer

1 successful exit

1× founder

Cohort 5 · San Francisco Bay Area
Ed Albanese

Founder & CEO · ThirdLaw

1 successful exit

1× founder

Cohort 6 · San Francisco Bay Area
Ed Kim

4× founder

Cohort 5 · San Francisco Bay Area
Elad Ferber

Co-Founder & CEO · Synthpop
Emma Yu

1 successful exit

1× founder

Cohort 16 · San Francisco Bay Area
Eric Parker

Cohort 18 · Other Us
Erik Juhl

1 successful exit

3× founder

Cohort 22 · North Bay
Erika Bahr

Daxe

1× founder

Cohort 7 · San Francisco Bay Area
Evonne Johnson

Rovo Labs

Cohort 7 · San Francisco Bay Area
Ewa Ding

1× founder

Cohort 12 · San Francisco Bay Area
Fai Sukontanit

3× founder

Cohort 12 · San Francisco Bay Area
Felicitas Binz

Cohort 16 · San Francisco Bay Area
Ganesh Krishnan

1× founder

Cohort 17 · San Francisco Bay Area
Featured

Gary Peters

Founder & CEO · PupPilot

2 successful exits

3× founder

vertical saashealthtech

Cohort 17 · Other Us
Gloria Felicia

AtlasPro AI

1 successful exit

4× founder

Cohort 4 · San Francisco Bay Area
Guillaume Miara

Cohort 3 · San Francisco Bay Area
Haesun Brooks

2× founder

San Francisco Bay Area
Hardik Chheda

Cohort 10 · San Francisco Bay Area
Hari Iyer

1 successful exit

2× founder

Cohort 10 · San Francisco Bay Area
Haroun Ahmed

Kinetic Systems

1× founder

Cohort 8 · San Francisco Bay Area
Harry Lee

1 successful exit

2× founder

Cohort 11 · San Francisco Bay Area
Helen Kupp

1× founder

Cohort 8 · San Francisco Bay Area
Henry Shi

1 successful exit

3× founder

Cohort 16 · San Francisco Bay Area
Himanshu Khurana

2× founder

Cohort 16 · San Francisco Bay Area
Ian Steenstra

1× founder

Cohort 23 · Boston
Ibrahima Kane

Fotographer AI

1× founder

Cohort 15 · Japan
Ignacio Guarna

Cohort 18 · San Francisco Bay Area
Ilian Georgiev

1 successful exit

3× founder

Cohort 16 · San Francisco Bay Area
James Koppel

Command Center

3× founder

Cohort 9 · San Francisco Bay Area
James Lee

2× founder

Cohort 15 · San Francisco Bay Area
Jan Carbonell

2 successful exits

3× founder

Cohort 12 · San Francisco Bay Area
Jan Jannink

Co-Founder & CTO · Synthpop

1 successful exit

5× founder

Cohort 3 · San Francisco Bay Area
Jason Grauel

1× founder

Cohort 21 · San Francisco Bay Area
Jason Krone

1× founder

Cohort 7 · San Francisco Bay Area
Jason Steiner

1× founder

Cohort 18 · San Francisco Bay Area
Jason Zhang

1 successful exit

2× founder

Cohort 23 · San Francisco Bay Area
Jatin Gupta

2× founder

Cohort 4 · San Francisco Bay Area
Jay Park

iQ Surgical

3× founder

Cohort 17 · San Francisco Bay Area
Jay Shah

3× founder

Cohort 16 · San Francisco Bay Area
Jeff Anderson

Founder & COO · Subatomic Energy

1 successful exit

4× founder

Cohort 20 · San Francisco Bay Area
Jeremy Nixon

Founder & CEO · Infinity

3× founder

Cohort 20 · San Francisco Bay Area
Jesse Hu

1× founder

Cohort 4 · San Francisco Bay Area
Jessie Fischer

Guest OS

1× founder

Cohort 9 · San Francisco Bay Area
John Daniels

HighRoad AI

1 successful exit

1× founder

Cohort 10 · Los Angeles
John Lunsford

2× founder

Cohort 18 · San Francisco Bay Area
John Whaley

Co-Founder & CEO · Inception

3 successful exits

4× founder

Cohort 1 · San Francisco Bay Area
Jon Beekman

2 successful exits

2× founder

Cohort 12 · San Francisco Bay Area
Josh Payne

Coframe

2 successful exits

4× founder

Cohort 3 · San Francisco Bay Area
Josh Silver

2× founder

Cohort 6 · San Francisco Bay Area
Juan Lozano

Co-founder & CTO · Mariana Minerals

2× founder

Cohort 3 · San Francisco Bay Area
Julien Vantyghem

1× founder

Cohort 15 · Europe
Julius Ritter

Brutus.ai

1 successful exit

3× founder

Cohort 3 · San Francisco Bay Area
Jun Liu

1× founder

Cohort 12 · San Francisco Bay Area
Kajari Ghosh

Cohort 7 · San Francisco Bay Area
Kashish Kharbanda

Cohort 12 · San Francisco Bay Area
Kathy Wang

Cohort 5 · San Francisco Bay Area
Kazuki Nakayashiki

Co-founder & CEO · Glasp

2× founder

ai toolsproductivity

Cohort 1 · San Francisco Bay Area
Kelly Byrd

Redcoat AI

1 successful exit

1× founder

Cohort 1 · Other California
Kelly Peng

Founder & CEO

2× founder

Cohort 11 · San Francisco Bay Area
Ken Mueller

1× founder

Cohort 21 · San Francisco Bay Area
Ken So

Octagon

1 successful exit

2× founder

Cohort 6 · San Francisco Bay Area
Kento Hatase

Memory Lab

2× founder

Cohort 15 · Japan
Kevin Pamplona

Dexicon

1× founder

Cohort 20 · San Francisco Bay Area
Kevin Wang

1× founder

Cohort 2 · New York City
Kirill Gusev

1 successful exit

3× founder

Cohort 15 · Japan
Komal Rajani

Cohort 7 · San Francisco Bay Area
Kristy Edwards

1 successful exit

2× founder

Cohort 22 · Other Us
Kyaw Lin Htet

1 successful exit

2× founder

Cohort 11 · San Francisco Bay Area
Laura Florescu

Cohort 1 · San Francisco Bay Area
Leigh Purnell

Founder & CEO · Subatomic Energy

1 successful exit

3× founder

Cohort 20 · San Francisco Bay Area
Leonie Freisinger

Dryft

2× founder

Cohort 9 · Europe
Lydia Chilton

1× founder

Cohort 19 · New York City
Mac Klinkachorn

Trellis

1× founder

Cohort 3 · San Francisco Bay Area
Marcus Lannie

3× founder

Cohort 3 · San Francisco Bay Area
Margarita Geleta

Cohort 10 · San Francisco Bay Area
Mariama Diallo

Aethex

2× founder

Cohort 20 · Europe
Matt Connors

2× founder

Cohort 22 · San Francisco Bay Area
Matt Hogan

1× founder

Cohort 22 · Los Angeles
Melvin Tercan

Octagon

1 successful exit

4× founder

Cohort 11 · Los Angeles
Michael Borohovski

1 successful exit

2× founder

Cohort 6 · San Francisco Bay Area
Michael LaFramboise

Aurelius Systems

1 successful exit

2× founder

Cohort 10 · San Francisco Bay Area
Michael Wang

1 successful exit

3× founder

Cohort 14 · San Francisco Bay Area
Mike Meaney

1× founder

Cohort 23 · San Francisco Bay Area
Mike Morris

Co-Founder & COO · Inception

1 successful exit

2× founder

Cohort 1 · San Francisco Bay Area
Mike Pollack

2 successful exits

5× founder

Cohort 22 · San Francisco Bay Area
Milan Veskovic

Superagent

3 successful exits

5× founder

Cohort 17 · Other Us
Moe Sabbaghi

TISC

1× founder

Cohort 17 · Toronto
Mohammad Rasouli

AIx2

1 successful exit

2× founder

Cohort 19 · San Francisco Bay Area
Monisha Perkash

Founder & CEO

2 successful exits

2× founder

Cohort 5 · San Francisco Bay Area
Nate Becker

Founder & CEO · Sela

2× founder

Cohort 13 · San Francisco Bay Area
Nathan Maton

1 successful exit

3× founder

Cohort 14 · San Francisco Bay Area
Neelu Shaikh

1× founder

Cohort 14 · San Francisco Bay Area
Neha Suresh

April

Cohort 10 · San Francisco Bay Area
Nick Desai

Founder & CEO · Rmix

2 successful exits

5× founder

Cohort 7 · San Francisco Bay Area
Nik Shevchenko

Omi

1 successful exit

2× founder

Cohort 10 · San Francisco Bay Area
Nikolas Papastavrou

1× founder

Cohort 5 · San Francisco Bay Area
Nils Eriksson

Command Center

2× founder

Cohort 9 · South America
Nora Peters

PupPilot

1× founder

Cohort 17 · Other Us
Nyla Worker

Cohort 3 · San Francisco Bay Area
Ola Oladeji

2× founder

Cohort 22 · San Francisco Bay Area
Olexandr Prokhorenko

4× founder

Cohort 1 · San Francisco Bay Area
Oliver Song

Hyperscale

1 successful exit

3× founder

Cohort 1 · San Francisco Bay Area
Pablo Bariola

2× founder

Cohort 3 · San Francisco Bay Area
Paul Roales

Cohort 5 · San Francisco Bay Area
Pradeep Banavara

4× founder

Cohort 18 · San Francisco Bay Area
Prasad Kethana

2× founder

Cohort 22 · San Francisco Bay Area
Pritee Tembhekar

Cohort 8 · San Francisco Bay Area
Qingyun Sun

PIN AI

1× founder

Cohort 1 · San Francisco Bay Area
Rafael Cosman

Founder & CEO · Protogon

1 successful exit

2× founder

Cohort 2 · San Francisco Bay Area
Rahul Hariharan

1× founder

Cohort 14 · Boston
Raj Tiwari

Trenta

2× founder

Cohort 17 · San Francisco Bay Area
Rakshit Agrawal

Cohort 7 · San Francisco Bay Area
Richard Rabbat

Lighty AI

1 successful exit

2× founder

Cohort 2 · San Francisco Bay Area
Richard Tibbetts

2 successful exits

3× founder

Cohort 14 · Boston
Rintaro Suzuki

Fotographer AI

1× founder

Cohort 15 · Japan
Rob Balian

Reprompt AI

1× founder

Cohort 7 · San Francisco Bay Area
Roey Ben Chaim

Cohort 14 · Seattle
Ron Koo

Koliso

3× founder

Cohort 22 · San Francisco Bay Area
Ruiping Li

Cohort 8 · San Francisco Bay Area
Ryan Brandt

2× founder

Cohort 9 · San Francisco Bay Area
Ryan Horrigan

1 successful exit

1× founder

Cohort 10 · Los Angeles
Sahil Mehta

2× founder

Cohort 3 · San Francisco Bay Area
Sahin Boydas

Lovie

2 successful exits

5× founder

Cohort 20 · Other Us
sakshi Pratap

Hexus

1× founder

Cohort 5 · San Francisco Bay Area
Saliou Kane

Fotographer AI

1× founder

Cohort 15 · Japan
Samder Khangarot

Bon

1 successful exit

2× founder

Cohort 9 · San Francisco Bay Area
Samuel Ekpe

Grupa Inc

3× founder

Cohort 21 · San Francisco Bay Area
Sankalp Garg

1× founder

Cohort 12 · Seattle
Santi Ortega

1× founder

San Francisco Bay Area
Sarvesh Regmi

2× founder

Cohort 18 · Europe
Sasha Sheng

TypeSafe AI

Cohort 3 · San Francisco Bay Area
Selali Adobor

1× founder

Cohort 8 · San Francisco Bay Area
Sergio Perdices

1× founder

San Francisco Bay Area
Shardul Aggarwal

2× founder

Cohort 17 · San Francisco Bay Area
Sharmin Ali

Adomo

3 successful exits

4× founder

Cohort 21 · New York City
Shawn Dimantha

1 successful exit

3× founder

Cohort 5 · San Francisco Bay Area
Shreeganesh Ramanan

Rovo Labs

Cohort 7 · San Francisco Bay Area
Skyler Erickson

Gondola

1 successful exit

2× founder

Cohort 2 · San Francisco Bay Area
Sophie Vu

Inception

1× founder

Cohort 12 · San Francisco Bay Area
Soya Park

1× founder

Cohort 19 · San Francisco Bay Area
Spandana Govindgari

1× founder

Cohort 5 · New York City
Spencer Braun

HighRoad AI

1× founder

Cohort 4 · San Francisco Bay Area
Sruthi Davuluri

2× founder

Cohort 22 · San Francisco Bay Area
Suhaas Prasad

1× founder

Cohort 14 · San Francisco Bay Area
Suhas Manangi

Precognition Labs

2× founder

Cohort 19 · Seattle
Suresh Vallabhaneni

IP Agent

3× founder

Cohort 13 · San Francisco Bay Area
Swetha Mandava

Truco

1× founder

Cohort 4 · San Francisco Bay Area
Talha Basit

Spiraldot Health

1 successful exit

3× founder

Cohort 13 · San Francisco Bay Area
Taranjeet Singh

Co-Founder & CEO · Mem0

1× founder

Cohort 9 · San Francisco Bay Area
Tash Matsusaki

1× founder

Cohort 16 · San Francisco Bay Area
Tess Kassier

1× founder

Cohort 21 · Seattle
Thalita Berpan

1 successful exit

1× founder

Cohort 8 · San Francisco Bay Area
Tingzhen Ming

1× founder

Cohort 16 · San Francisco Bay Area
Tony Biz

3× founder

Cohort 10 · San Francisco Bay Area
Tristan Gosakti

Cohort 10 · San Francisco Bay Area
Trung Le

2 successful exits

5× founder

San Francisco Bay Area
Tuan Dinh

4× founder

San Francisco Bay Area
Tyler Chen

Co-Founder & CEO · Subtle Computing

1× founder

Cohort 13 · San Francisco Bay Area
Vadim Axelrod

Cara AI

2 successful exits

10× founder

Cohort 18 · San Francisco Bay Area
Vadim Rogovskiy

Eve

1 successful exit

4× founder

San Francisco Bay Area
Vadym Shashkov

Superagent

1 successful exit

2× founder

Cohort 17 · San Francisco Bay Area
Vahe Tshitoyan

Sela

1× founder

Cohort 8 · San Francisco Bay Area
Vetri Venthan Elango

1× founder

Cohort 2 · San Francisco Bay Area
Victor Kovalev

2× founder

Cohort 13 · San Francisco Bay Area
Vijay Injam

1× founder

Cohort 18 · Other Us
Vijay Sankarasubramanian

Cohort 12 · San Francisco Bay Area
Vincent Alessi

2 successful exits

5× founder

Cohort 16 · San Francisco Bay Area
Vishal Subbiah

Rovo Labs

Cohort 7 · San Francisco Bay Area
Vishwajit Sasi

1 successful exit

2× founder

Cohort 14 · San Francisco Bay Area
Vlada Lotkina

Superagent

1 successful exit

4× founder

Cohort 17 · San Francisco Bay Area
Yi Ding

3× founder

Cohort 13 · San Francisco Bay Area
Yuka Kojima

Ememe

3× founder

Cohort 17 · Japan
Zach Esmili

1× founder

Cohort 15 · San Francisco Bay Area

Aaron Yang

Adam Cohen Hillel

Adi Badhwar

Adithya Aggarwal

Aditya Agarkar

Akhil Ravidas

Alec Coston

Alex Beatson

Alex Gruebele

Anand Atreya

Andrew Radin

Andy Chou

Anna Yuan

Anna-Julia Storch

Ardalan Benam

Arne Michalson

Arpan Bhattacharya

Ashlee Reynolds

Ashwath Rajan

Ashwini Iyer

Asmau Ahmed

Assaf Einat

Avinash Uddaraju

Ayooluwa Odemuyiwa

Bayley Wang

Ben Wilentz

Benjamin Turtel

Bo DellaMaria

Brad Hart

Brian Bentow

Brian Tuan

Bruce Adams

Bryan Downie

Camilo Ruiz

Cara Rosengard

Carmen Kivisild

Catherine Qu

Chandan Kaur

Chandler Gonzales

Chandra Ranganathan

Chong Han Chua

CK Chang Kim

CK Chang Kim

Daniel Edrisian

Dare Emrani

David Evans

David Huie

David Lynn

Deb Pandra

Dennis Li

Derek S. Chan

Deshraj Yadav

Devin Owen

Deyan Vitanov

Dhaval Shreyas

Dhruv Kulkarni

Dina Katabi

Dina Yerlan

Doug Loyer

Ed Albanese

Ed Kim

Elad Ferber

Emma Yu

Eric Parker

Erik Juhl

Erika Bahr

Evonne Johnson

Ewa Ding

Fai Sukontanit

Felicitas Binz

Ganesh Krishnan

Gary Peters

Gloria Felicia

Guillaume Miara

Haesun Brooks

Hardik Chheda

Hari Iyer

Haroun Ahmed

Harry Lee

Helen Kupp