259 founders. 83% repeat founders. 32% with prior exits. Meet some of the exceptional people in the Inception community.
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Repeat Founders
Prior Exits
Years Avg Experience

Rmix · 5x Founder & CEO
MS EE UCLA. 5x VC-funded founder/CEO (Together, Heal). Gen-AI and ML obsessed. Speaker and author. 2 exits.
$300M raised (Breyer Capital, Fidelity, Spark Capital, DFJ)

Saywise · Co-founder & CEO
3x founder. Michigan Physics. Ex-Google PM. Co-founded TNC (acquired by Google). Founded Tapas Media (acquired by Kakao, $510M).
Tapas acquired by Kakao for $510M

Lumo BodyTech · Founder & CEO
Yale Psychology. Stanford MBA & MA Education. 2x founder. Ex-Meta Dir of Product in charge of Ray-Ban Meta. Stanford entrepreneurship lecturer.
$26M raised. 2 exits.

Coframe · 4x Founder
Stanford Engineering + MBA. 20+ patents in AI, quantum computing, infosec. Co-founded Autograph with Tom Brady ($2B+ unicorn, a16z). AccessBell acquired by Tata Group.
$9M raised (Khosla Ventures, NFDG)

Adomo AI · 3x Entrepreneur
3x entrepreneur with multiple exits. Bestselling author of 3 books, global keynote speaker.
$200M+ raised collectively (A16Z)

Jest · 4x Founder
Stanford MBA. 4x founder (3 acquired, 1 bootstrapped & profitable). CMO at gaming unicorn Playco.
4 exits

Ventrilo.ai · Founder
BS EECS Berkeley, Stanford CS PhD. Founded Coverity in '03, grew to $75M ARR. Acquired by Synopsys.
Angel investor in 20+ companies (Loom, LaunchDarkly)

Ememe · 3x Founder
MIT MBA, ex-PlayStation. 3x founder. Forbes 30 Under 30 Asia.
$26M raised (Foxconn, Samsung, Nikon)

Aria Pharmaceuticals · 5x Founder
BS/MS CS, Stanford BMI. 5x entrepreneur. Built products used by millions in telephony, gaming, and ad tech. Top 100 AI Leader in Pharma.
Raised from a16z, SoftBank, and others

ThirdLaw · Founder & CEO
Former VP at Splunk, Cloudera, MongoDB. Enterprise AI safety.

Subatomic · Founder & COO
12 years as venture-backed operator. Built and run teams of 80+. World-class at partnerships and fundraising.
$50M+ raised across ventures

Subatomic · Founder & CEO
11 years in battery charging and smart energy. 25+ patents in Battery Management.
$51M raised (TPG)

Infinity · Founder & CEO
Founder of Infinity (AI infrastructure). Founder of AGI House (75+ AI hackathons).

Lovie · 5x Founder
5x founder. 2 exits (RemoteTeam → Gusto, MovieLaLa → Snap). Angel investor in 180 startups.
$10M raised (Marc Benioff, SoftBank)

Cara Health · 10x Startup Founder
Pomona '91, Stanford '93. 10+ startups in healthtech, security, networking, edtech.
$30M raised (Sequoia, SoftBank). 2 exits.

Subtle · Co-Founder & CEO
Yale Physics & CS. ML and quantum computing research. AI agents for government.
YC X25. Co-founder's prev company acquired by FiscalNote (NYSE: NOTE)

Serial Entrepreneur
25+ years in telecom and software. Ex-EVP at Juniper Networks (18 years). Harvard AMP.
2 exits (Sage → Google, WiFiSLAM → Apple)

Sela · 2x Founder & CEO
Yale '09, LinkedIn data science alum. Previously founded VoiceOps (YC), signed Square and Sunrun as customers.
$11M+ raised (Accel, Founders Fund, Bain Capital Ventures)

Protogon Research · Founder & CEO
Stanford CS. Ex-Google Brain & Palantir. Co-founded StreetCode Academy.

Mariana Minerals · Co-founder & CTO
Stanford Physics & CS (AI). Co-founded InsideMaps, led ML at Kite (acquired by Affirm).

Koliso · 3x Founder
MIT. 3x founder, 15+ patents. Former chip architect (analogZONE Product of the Year). Backend engineering, AI, and product.

First Intelligence · Founder & CEO
UC Berkeley EECS, Stanford Nanofab. 2x founder. Previously founded Kura (taped out world's fastest smart display driver at TSMC). Forbes 30 Under 30.
$17M+ raised (TSMC, SAIC Motors, Access Industries). 2x CES Awards.

Synthpop · Co-Founder & CEO
Stanford & Technion grad. Talpiot (elite IDF unit). 10+ years building AI × healthcare. Founded Spry Health (acquired by ZOLL Itamar). Led engineering for SpaceIL (lunar lander).
$23M raised

Synthpop · Co-Founder & CTO
Stanford CS PhD. Co-founder in 4 AI & analytics startups, 1 exit. Occasional Stanford CS 193S instructor.
$23M raised

mem0 · Co-Founder & CEO
Built AI tutor featured at Google I/O and first GPT Store. Co-founded mem0 (formerly Embedchain), the memory layer for AI agents. 40K+ GitHub stars.
$20M Series A

Axiom Bio · Co-Founder
Princeton PhD in deep learning & generative models. Director of ML at Redesign Science (small-molecule drug discovery). AI toxicity testing.
$40M Series A

Glasp · Co-Founder
ME Chem & Bio at UTokyo, Business at UC Berkeley. Founded Glasp, a platform for annotating the web with AI. Alum of On Deck, Launch House, Berkeley SkyDeck.
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Marketplace for messaging games. $7M seed from Innovation Endeavors.
AI‑driven UX optimization. $9M from Khosla Ventures.
First fully autonomous prescription vending machines. $4M pre-seed. 5 units in production.
AI that helps product teams ship higher-quality software, faster.
AI automation for trucking carriers.
Replacing lab and animal testing with AI. Raised $40M.
A small device to let AI control your phone.
Evaluate, optimize, and ship enterprise AI agents.
AI-powered writing assistant. $10M from a16z after forming team & demo at Inception.
Social knowledge curation platform.
AI agents for trust, safety, fraud, risk, and compliance teams.
Turning AI interactions into actionable product insights. Signed ClickUp as enterprise client.
Copilot for financial analysts.
AI voice sales agents that beat human performance. Raised $6M.
Accurate predictive models with AI. Raised $4M.
Voice that works everywhere. Raised $6M.
Perplexity for the real world. Multimodal AI that can see, understand, and generate. Available as CAPI AI.
AI wearable "second brain" that turns conversations into insights and memory you can search, summarize, and share.
Voice AI for hospitality. 10 customers in production.
Building the bridge between robotics and mainstream adoption.
Voice AI executive assistant.
AI for fundraising and investing.
Remote health monitoring without wearables.
AI agents for the physical world. Raised $5M from General Catalyst.
Create stunning demos, videos, and guides with AI. Acquired by Harvey (Jan 2026).
AI agent for Xcode. Acquired by OpenAI (Aug 2025).
AI reliability layer that minimizes hallucinations across LLM ensembles.
2–5× faster GPU inference via AI-generated kernel optimization.
Home battery storage that buys cheap power automatically.
Agentic banking platform built for AI-native companies and solo founders.
Voice AI that actually works for the next billion users.
Real-time AI copilot guiding surgeons during high-stakes procedures.
AI that helps consumers eliminate credit card debt faster and build credit.
Speak for minutes; get weeks of professional content in your authentic voice.
Software-first developer of critical minerals for energy, AI, and defense.
AI that automates healthcare paperwork — prior auths, appeals, and document intake. ~$7M in total contract value.
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