Yamada Shohei

Diffraqtion is a Somerville, MA, space startup building the world’s first quantum camera powering the largest ultra-high-resolution imaging satellite network. Combining quantum photonics and AI, Diffraqtion enables machines to see further and think faster, advancing space exploration, defense, and intelligent systems worldwide.

AI House helps founders build AI-first companies through three connected pillars: Community, Incubator, and Capital. ———————— 𝗖𝗢𝗠𝗠𝗨𝗡𝗜𝗧𝗬 gives founders daily access to a dense network of AI founders, researchers, engineers, operators, investors, domain experts, and technical builders working through similar problems in real time. It is where founders meet people who can actually help: potential customers, technical reviewers, resident experts, early investors, future teammates, and peers a few steps ahead. 𝗜𝗡𝗖𝗨𝗕𝗔𝗧𝗢𝗥 is where we work side by side with founders from the earliest stages. Founders can access up to $600K in capital for incubations, $1M+ in free, non-dilutive cloud compute, and hands-on support across idea formation, customer discovery, technical strategy, product decisions, pricing, packaging, positioning, sales, fundraising, recruiting, design, storytelling, and back-office operations. The company remains founder-led. We are not here to run it for you. We are here to be your partner through the messy early work. 𝗖𝗔𝗣𝗜𝗧𝗔𝗟 is where we write direct checks of $100K to $1M into applied AI companies built around real customer pain, technical depth, and durable execution. Some are companies we help incubate. Others are founders who already have momentum and just need capital, not incubation. We invest in both Seattle + non-Seattle. ———————— 𝗦𝗘𝗔𝗧𝗧𝗟𝗘 𝗛𝗢𝗠𝗘-𝗕𝗔𝗦𝗘 We believe Seattle will be one of the most important AI startup ecosystems of the next decade, with world-class technical talent, deep research roots, major cloud infrastructure, experienced operators, and customers across industries where AI will matter most. AI House exists to be the front door for serious AI builders in Seattle and the Pacific Northwest: a place to find co-founders, sharpen ideas, meet customers, access capital, get technical judgment, and build real companies. ———————— 𝗝𝗢𝗜𝗡 𝗨𝗦 >> Community. Incubator. Capital. Built for AI founders.

Kite is building the foundational infrastructure for the agentic internet. It is the first system that enables autonomous agents to authenticate, transact, and operate independently in real-world environments.

Nexxa builds specialized AI for industrial engineering in heavy project industries. Project industries like railroads, energy, construction, mining and others rely on highly educated industrial engineers to function. Today, industrial engineers have to do their work in a fragmented, sometimes outdated technology stack. Nexxa delivers AI agents that understand the technical work and augment the engineer in their most critical, but repetitive work. Our vision is to build an AI system that works with the engineer from scratch and accelerates engineering productivity without any pre-training.

We believe that amazing comics should be accessible, no matter where they’re made, what language they’re in, or how they’ve been formatted. As comics fans who have a deep appreciation for the craft, we understand that the business of making comics can sometimes feel like feast or famine and that other times it can feel like shooting in the dark. We set out to create a dynamic platform that could help readers understand the value of artistic labor and help creators earn cash in more consistent and flexible ways. Most importantly, we wanted to promote cross-cultural exchange and help comics fans and makers connect with each other in deeper, more insightful ways.

Quantum computing is moving from "one day" to "day one." QuEra Computing is leading that transition. Founded in 2018 on breakthrough research from Harvard and MIT, QuEra builds neutral-atom quantum computers using a unique multi-zone architecture. The result: reconfigurable qubit connectivity, room-temperature operation, and a scalable path to fault-tolerant quantum computing, with dozens logical qubits already demonstrated. QuEra systems are operational today. The company delivered a 260-qubit quantum computer to Japans AIST integrated with one of the worlds most powerful supercomputers, earned selection for DARPAs Quantum Benchmarks Initiative, and offers its Aquila quantum computer on Amazon Braket. Its Gemini gate-based system extends these capabilities for enterprise and research applications. Backed by $230M from Google, NVIDIA, SoftBank, and others, QuEra partners with Dell Technologies, NVIDIA, Deloitte, and a 29-member Quantum Alliance. Headquartered in Boston with operations in Japan and the UK. Visit quera.com to learn more.

BasiGo is an early-stage e-mobility start-up working to create the future of clean, electric public transport in Africa. Headquartered in Nairobi, Kenya, our team is strategically composed of seasoned entrepreneurs who have spent over a decade working and innovating within electric vehicle technology, mobility in Africa, and renewable energy financing. We are a team dedicated to creating an inclusive sustainable mobility revolution in Africa. BasiGo offers bus operators an Electric Bus solution that is more affordable, more convenient, and more reliable than a diesel alternative. To help bus operators receive the benefits of electric drive, BasiGo provides a complete electric bus solution including: 1) Electric Buses that operate all day on a single charge with proven, safe battery technology 2) Charging depots located close to bus routes providing guaranteed charging and expert preventative maintenance every night 3) Innovative Pay-As-You-Go financing that makes BasiGo buses affordable to purchase and lower cost to operate than diesel buses

Carry1st is Africa’s leading publisher of mobile games and digital content. Operating at the intersection of games, publishing, and fintech, we scale awesome content in frontier markets by solving hard problems. Across our publishing and Pay1st business lines, we are partnered with top global game companies like Riot Games, Activision, and Supercell. We are backed by top investors like: a16z, Bitkraft, Google, Konvoy, Riot Games, Sony and Nas.

Gateway Partners Group (“Gateway”) is a Singapore and Dubai-based alternative investment manager investing across the fast-growing markets of South Asia, Southeast Asia, Middle East and Africa. For over three decades, the founding partners have collaborated across several financial institutions through which they developed their expertise in emerging markets. They established Gateway in 2014 to offer a one-stop solution to investors seeking emerging markets exposure to regions which are long on opportunities and short on capital. The Gateway team brings a well-balanced mix of backgrounds across functions, sectors and geographies in the form of “trusted advisor” relationships with many leading business families supporting deal flow, due diligence and navigation of local environments. Providing bespoke financing solutions to well-established, growing businesses, Gateway is an active investor, adding value to portfolio companies across strategy, people, capital markets, governance, finance, and marketing. As a core tenet of our strategy, Gateway also manages key emerging markets risks, providing downside protection to the portfolios we manage. A UN PRI signatory, Gateway is committed to being a responsible investor. We are also the first asset manager globally to receive a Governance and Control Effectiveness Rating from Sigma Ratings (‘A’ rating with a positive outlook).

Sanctuary is on a mission to create the world’s first human-like intelligence in general-purpose robots that will help us work more safely, efficiently, and sustainably. And in the not-too-distant future, help us explore, settle, and prosper in outer space. Members of the Sanctuary team founded D-Wave (a pioneer in the quantum computing industry), Kindred (first use of reinforcement learning in a production robot), and the Creative Destruction Lab (pioneered a revolutionary method for the commercialization of science for the betterment of humankind). The team has experience launching market-defining innovations rooted in previously unsolved and deep scientific problems.

Novastar Ventures is one of the first and largest VCs investing in Africa. Since 2014, Novastar has partnered with the bold entrepreneurs transforming markets and sectors and creating financial, social and environmental for people and planet - for good. Novastar’s work and team encompass both Novastar Ventures Limited and its investment advisors in Nairobi and Lagos.

EdgeCortix is an Edge Artificial Intelligence (AI) Platform company, pioneering the future of the connected intelligent edge. It was founded in 2019 with the radical idea of taking a software first approach, while designing an artificial intelligence specific runtime reconfigurable processor from the ground up using a technique called "hardware & software co-exploration". Targeting advanced computer vision applications first, using proprietary hardware and software IP on existing processors like FPGAs and custom designed ASIC, the company is geared towards positively disrupting the rapidly growing AI hardware space across defense, aerospace, smart cities, industry 4.0, autonomous vehicles and robotics.

Financial services are the core of peoples lives. It enable them to participate in the economy, stabilise thier lives, grab opportunities for success, and pursue their dreams. For 1.8 billion people who currently dont have access to finance services in the emerging society, we will be the source of new common sense. "Making sincere efforts with integrity to build their own credit is the most certain path to their better and richer lives." With non-copyable technology and speed, we will be the new page of Africas history in its developing era by reforming old-fashioned financial services.

Alpaca is a US-headquartered, self-clearing broker-dealer and a global leader in brokerage infrastructure APIs providing access to stocks, ETFs, options, fixed income, and crypto. Alpaca delivers embeddable finance solutions for tokenization, fully paid securities lending, high-yield cash, 24/5 trading, Shariah-compliant investing, and more. Today, Alpaca powers over 9 million brokerage accounts across hundreds of fintechs and institutions in 40+ countries, with over $320M in funding from top investors including Drive Capital, Portage Ventures, Spark Capital, Tribe Capital, Social Leverage, Derayah Financial, Horizons Ventures, Unbound, SBI Group, Elefund, and Y Combinator.

Diffraqtion is a Somerville, MA, space startup building the world’s first quantum camera powering the largest ultra-high-resolution imaging satellite network. Combining quantum photonics and AI, Diffraqtion enables machines to see further and think faster, advancing space exploration, defense, and intelligent systems worldwide.

AI House helps founders build AI-first companies through three connected pillars: Community, Incubator, and Capital. ———————— 𝗖𝗢𝗠𝗠𝗨𝗡𝗜𝗧𝗬 gives founders daily access to a dense network of AI founders, researchers, engineers, operators, investors, domain experts, and technical builders working through similar problems in real time. It is where founders meet people who can actually help: potential customers, technical reviewers, resident experts, early investors, future teammates, and peers a few steps ahead. 𝗜𝗡𝗖𝗨𝗕𝗔𝗧𝗢𝗥 is where we work side by side with founders from the earliest stages. Founders can access up to $600K in capital for incubations, $1M+ in free, non-dilutive cloud compute, and hands-on support across idea formation, customer discovery, technical strategy, product decisions, pricing, packaging, positioning, sales, fundraising, recruiting, design, storytelling, and back-office operations. The company remains founder-led. We are not here to run it for you. We are here to be your partner through the messy early work. 𝗖𝗔𝗣𝗜𝗧𝗔𝗟 is where we write direct checks of $100K to $1M into applied AI companies built around real customer pain, technical depth, and durable execution. Some are companies we help incubate. Others are founders who already have momentum and just need capital, not incubation. We invest in both Seattle + non-Seattle. ———————— 𝗦𝗘𝗔𝗧𝗧𝗟𝗘 𝗛𝗢𝗠𝗘-𝗕𝗔𝗦𝗘 We believe Seattle will be one of the most important AI startup ecosystems of the next decade, with world-class technical talent, deep research roots, major cloud infrastructure, experienced operators, and customers across industries where AI will matter most. AI House exists to be the front door for serious AI builders in Seattle and the Pacific Northwest: a place to find co-founders, sharpen ideas, meet customers, access capital, get technical judgment, and build real companies. ———————— 𝗝𝗢𝗜𝗡 𝗨𝗦 >> Community. Incubator. Capital. Built for AI founders.

Kite is building the foundational infrastructure for the agentic internet. It is the first system that enables autonomous agents to authenticate, transact, and operate independently in real-world environments.

Nexxa builds specialized AI for industrial engineering in heavy project industries. Project industries like railroads, energy, construction, mining and others rely on highly educated industrial engineers to function. Today, industrial engineers have to do their work in a fragmented, sometimes outdated technology stack. Nexxa delivers AI agents that understand the technical work and augment the engineer in their most critical, but repetitive work. Our vision is to build an AI system that works with the engineer from scratch and accelerates engineering productivity without any pre-training.