AI2 Incubator - Huge Annual Summer BBQ

​A signature event of Seattle Tech Week, come hang with 700+ AI researchers, professors, entrepreneurs, investors, engineers, and more! Celebrate the best of AI in the PNW with live music, cold drinks, and—of course—BBQ.

​This year, we're hosting it at AI House on Pier 70 and teaming up with Yujian Tang from OSS4AI to bring a “science fair” twist to the evening—showcasing some of the most exciting startups built in Seattle (and those visiting for the week). It’s all part of our mission to not just throw a great party, but to create space for learning, discovery, and deeper involvement in the startup ecosystem.

​If you or a friend have a venture-backed startup and want to be part of the science fair, please fill out form.

​Science Fair Exhibitors:

1. ​ArcBlock/ArcSphere

2. ​Flickbloom

3. ​Casium

4. ​Caddi

5. ​Hyperparam

6. ​Jinn Labs

7. ​CopilotKit

8. ​Thesys

9. ​Nexhelm AI

10. ​LiquidMetal AI

11. ​GCP

​About the Exhibitors

1. ​ArcBlock/ArcSphere
   ArcSphere is a mobile browser with a contextually aware companion AI that moves beyond answers to help you act. It summarizes content, drafts replies and organizes tab chaos into clean visual spaces. All the while you retain total control with zero-tracking privacy and a secure, passwordless identity.

2. ​Flickbloom
   FlickBloom is a Seattle-based startup founded in March 2025 that offers AI‑driven marketing services—automating social media strategy, content creation, publishing, and engagement—for small and medium businesses at a fraction of agency cost

3. ​Casium
   Casium helps companies hire top talent without visa delays or confusion. With expedited filing, expert legal support, and a fully transparent, compliant application process, we’re making business immigration simpler for everyone.

4. ​Caddi
   Caddi is your AI employee for repetitive work. Just show it how you handle tasks—like filling forms, following up on emails, or saving documents—and it builds a custom automation you can run via email. It’s like training a virtual colleague, with zero setup or technical skills required.

5. ​Hyperparam
   Hyperparam delivers an open‑source, browser‑first UI platform for exploring and curating massive AI/ML datasets (especially in Parquet and Iceberg formats) — featuring lightning‑fast data loading with libraries like Hyparquet, HighTable, Icebird, and a CLI for local use that eliminates backend infrastructure

6. ​Jinn Labs
   Jinn Labs is a Seattle-based startup, founded in December 2024, that is pioneering AI-native “vision agents” to combat the $112B shrinkage problem plaguing physical retail in the U.S. Our core belief: with the right AI systems in place, retail shrinkage can be cut in half.

7. ​CopilotKit
   CopilotKit is a Seattle‑based open‑source Agentic Application Framework that makes it easy for developers to embed interactive, human‑in‑the‑loop agents directly into React web apps, with support for frameworks like LangGraph, CrewAI, Maestra, and AG2.

8. ​Thesys
   Thesys offers C1, a Generative UI API, and a companion Crayon React SDK to automatically transform LLM responses into dynamic, production-ready interfaces in real time, aiming to eliminate manual UI engineering in agentic, AI-native apps.

9. ​Nexhelm AI
   Nexhelm AI is the first real-time execution copilot for financial advisors—turning AI insights into actions. We help advisors streamline client interactions, automate workflows, and unlock missed revenue opportunities like upselling and churn prevention.

10. ​LiquidMetal AI
    LiquidMetal AIcombines Claude Code with its Raindrop MCP edge infrastructure to enable developers to design, build, and deploy globally scalable, production‑grade AI and agentic applications.

11. ​GCP
    GCP is coming to demo 1) Chat Veo, a chat interface to create multi stage video clips using Gemini, Imagen and Veo. 2) Gemini Coding Demo - a simple Cloud Run/Cloud SQL app using requirements defined in a Google doc.

​Thanks to our sponsors: Google and JP Morgan!

​About Google Cloud:

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​About JP Morgan:

​J.P. Morgan serves startups and venture-backed high-growth companies, founders and venture capital firms across the globe in industries like technology, fintech, disruptive commerce and internet, life sciences, climate tech and healthtech. The firm provides deep industry expertise, local support, comprehensive solutions and services and a robust network of investors and partners to meet clients’ commercial, investment and private banking needs. Learn more at jpmorgan.com/innovationeconomy.