Founders in San Francisco, CA building AI Infrastructure

298 founders in San Francisco, CA and building AI Infrastructure, with company, funding, and investor detail. Includes Opaque Systems and New Generation.

Founders in San Francisco, CA and building AI Infrastructure (321)

Founders in San Francisco, CA and building AI Infrastructure covers 321 founders on Anthropic, Decagon and Together AI and 210 other companies. The most common sector is AI Infrastructure (250). Jared Kaplan founded Anthropic — Anthropic, a Public Benefit Corporation (PBC), focuses on harnessing AI's potential while prioritizing safety and public benefit. Their 2026 Public Benefit Report outlines their co. Companies represented include Databricks, Baseten, Tzafon, Decart, Defog, Fal, Feltsense Holdings, Goodfire, Hedra, Loop AI, Metaforms and Nixtla, plus 198 more. Every founder below links to a profile with their company, backers, and the filings behind each round.

Founders listed: 321
Companies represented: 213
Top sector: AI Infrastructure (250 founders)
Top location: San Francisco, CA (250 founders)

Aaron Fulkerson — Opaque Systems
Abhi Viswanathan — Baseten
Adam Behrens — New Generation
Adam Jacob — System Initiative
Adam Mosseri — Artifact
Adit Abraham — Reducto
Ahmad Awais — Langbase
Ahmed Rashad — Perle AI
Aisha Alsaggaf — AVA
Akhil Iyengar — Operand
Akshat Tyagi — Metaforms
Alan Howard — Together AI
Alexander Bergman — Hedra
Alexandr Wang — Scale AI
Alexei Chemenda — Poolday.ai
Alex Halliday — AirOps
Alex Hawkinson — BrightAI
Alex Mashrabov — Higgsfield
Alex Modon — Unlimited Industries
Alex Salazar — Arcade.dev
Alex Trojanow — Revl
Ali Ghodsi — Databricks
Allan Guo — Willow Voice
Amanda Kahlow — 1mind
Amir Haghighat — Baseten
Anand Kannappan — Patronus AI
Anastasios Angelopoulos — LMArena
Andres Girault — HiCap.ai
Andrew Hong — Dimension Labs
Angela Jiang — Worktrace AI
Ankur Goyal — Braintrust
Annie Lu — Laminar
Anonymous? — Arcade
Antonio Bustamante — bem
Arav Srinivasan — Perplexity
Archit Karandikar — Airial Travel
Arjun Prakash — Distyl AI
Arjun S — Metaforms
Artur Kiulian — Principle
Ashutosh Garg — Viven
Avi Schiffmann — Friend
Aydin Senkut — Solana
Balint Pasztor — DiffuseDrive
Barry Mccardel — Hex Technologies
Ben Cerchio — Secludy
Benjamin Sanders — Hyper
Benoit Dageville — Databricks
Ben Wiley — David AI
Ben Zises — Arcee.ai
Bo Dong — Cephia AI
Brad Cordova — Super.AI
Braden Ream — Voiceflow
Brendan Foody — Mercor
Brendan Iribe — Sesame
Brendan Playford — Masa
Bret Taylor — Sierra AI
Bret Taylor — Sierra
Brian Armstrong — Anthropic
Brooke Hopkins — Coval
Brooke OY — Infactory
Bruno Finco — MOVEdot
Burkay Gur — Fal
Byung-Gon Chun — FriendliAI
Cameron Flannery — NavierAI
Carl Peterson — Thunder Compute
Carmen Li — Silicon Data
Carney Chu — Questflow
Catheryn Li — Simple AI
Ce Zhang — Together AI
Chang She — LanceDB
Charanya Kannan — Pinkfish
Charles Migos — Intangible
Charles Packer — Letta
Charles Wong — Bifrost AI
Chitrang Shah — Savant Labs
Chi Zhang — Kite AI
Chris Weaver — Onyx
Ciro Greco — Bauplan
Clay Bavor — Sierra
Colin Carrier — Origin Lab
Colin Wiel — Qurrent
Conor Brennan-Burke — Hyperspell
Cyril Gorlla — CTGT
Daniel Svonava — Superlinked
Danny Goldman — Trove AI
Dan Siroker — Limitless AI (formerly Rewind AI)
Dan Wright — Armada
Dario Amodei — Anthropic
Dario Callegaro — Weights & Biases
Dario Wolder — Anthropic
Dar Mehta — Causal Labs
Darya Sesitskaya — Shader
David Blumberg — Anthropic
David Cox — Integrated Reasoning
David Gu — Recall.ai
David Karp — Asimov
David Kirtley — Goodfire
David Paffenholz — Juicebox
Dean Leitersdorf — Decart
Demi Guo — Pika
Deon Nicholas — Forethought
Devansh Pandey — Standard Intelligence
Devi Parikh — Yutori
Dhruv Guliani — Keplar
Doug Safreno — Gentrace
Dr. Aniruddha Sarkar — Hedra AI
Drew Borinstein — Argus Systems
Drew Sechrist — Connect The Dots
Drishan Arora — Deep Cogito
Dylan DiMarchi — Eventual
Dylan Fox — Together AI
Eftal Yurtseven — Eachlabs
Eoin McMillan — Sourcetable
Eric Ho — Goodfire
Eric Landau — Encord
Eric Zelikman — humans&
Erin Springmeyer — Feltsense Holdings
Ethan Ding — TextQL
Ethan Fassett — Glystn
Ethan Sun — MyShell
Eugene Cheah — Featherless.ai
Evan Kereiakes — Zeko Labs
Evan Tana — The Graph
Fei-Fei Li — World Labs
Fernando Gadotti — Tako
Fernando Llaver — Splight Tech
Filip Kozera — Wordware
Gabriel Bayomi — Openlayer
Gabriel Kalejaiye — Openlayer
G. Bailey Stockdale — Leaf Agriculture
George Cheng — Code Four
Ghita Alami — ZeroEntropy
Golan Agmon — HiOctave
Gorkem Yurtseven — Fal
Greg Brockman — OpenAI
Guillaume Verdon — Extropic AI
Guy Piekarz — Panjaya
Harrison Chase — LangChain
Hassaan Raza — Tavus
Hatim Shafique — Databricks
Himanshu Tyagi — Sentient
Hunter Leath — Archil
Jacob Portukalian — Cascade Space
Jacqueline Cheong — Artie
Jae Lee — Twelve Labs
Jagadish Gattu — UptimeAI
James Proud — Substrate
James Zammit — Roark AI
Jared Kaplan — Anthropic — Anthropic, a Public Benefit Corporation (PBC), focuses on harnessing AI's potential while prioritizing safety and public
Jason Hu — Nexad
Jason Maier — Reservoir (Relay)
Jason Warner — Poolside
Jaspar Carmichael-Jack — Artisan AI
Jasper Zhang — Hyperbolic
Jay Dang — FlowGPT
Jeffrey Ip — Confident AI
Jeremy Fraenkel — Fundamental
Jerry Liu — LlamaIndex
Jesse Zhang — Decagon
John Gedmark — Astranis
Jonathan Golden — Rada
Jon Dahl — Mux
Jordan Liu — AIsa
Josh Sirota — Eragon
Joshua Morgan — Sesame
Kanjun Qiu — Imbue
Karan Goel — Cartesia
Kasey Zhang — Osmosis AI
Kenneth Eversole — OpsCompanion
Kevin McNab — Parallel Domain
Kirill Gertman — Conduit
Lauren Dunford — Guidewheel
Lawrence Coburn — Ambient
Lawrence Liu — Willow Voice
Lei Zhang — Stardust AI
Liam Fedus — OpenAI
Lina Colucci — Lemon Slice
Lukas Biewald — Weights & Biases
Mac Liu — Vultron
Mads Jensen — Decagon
Maggie Tang — Magic
Magnus Müller — Browser Use
Maitreya Wagh — Bolna
Manu Sharma — Labelbox
Marc Freed-Finnegan — Chalk
Marik Hazan — Feltsense Holdings
Mark Fosdike — Datch
Marty Beard — Hayden AI
Masha Bucher — Lvl5
Matan Grinberg — Factory
Matei Zaharia — Databricks
Matt Cutler — Blocknative
Matt Galligan — XMTP
Matthew Mirman — Anarchy
Matthew Wyman — Okareo
Max Canseco — Nixtla
Max Child — Volley
Max Mergenthaler — Nixtla
Medha Basu — Defog
Megan Nunes — Bountiful
Michael Ding — Bobyard
Michael Gaffney — Spot AI
Michael Hahn — Vaudit
Michael Heinrich — 0G
Michael Lingelbach — Hedra
Miju Lee — Together AI
Mike McCue — Cognition
Mina Dastmalchi — Decagon
Mitchell Green — Decagon
Mizan Rupan-Tompkins — Stratus Aviation AI
Monik Pamecha — Toma
Moshe Shalev — Decart
N/A — Together AI
Nalin Semwal — Scrapybara
Nelson Ray — SalesPatriot
Nicholas D'Andre — GridMatrix
Nicholas Scavone — Seam AI
Nicolai Wadstrom — BootstrapLabs
Nikhil Basu Trivedi — CrewAI
Nikhil Sonti — Felafax AI
Nikil Viswanathan — Alchemy
Niko Bonatsos — Decagon
Nikunj Bajaj — TrueFoundry
Noah Lofquist — Tzafon
Noah Löfquist — Tzafon
Noah T. — Tzafon
Nyca Partners — Loop AI
Osama Bedier — Loop AI
Oscar Luo — Reforged Labs
Oskar Ziegler — Hive
Pankaj Gupta — Baseten
Pankaj Rajan — MarkovML
Paras Jain — Genmo
Pasquale Romano — Tempo
Patrick Kenna — Volley
Paul Dudley — Streamkap
Paul Klein — Browserbase
Paul Sinai — Blaxel
Pedro Conrade — Neon
Peter Scott — ON Platform
Pierre Brunelle — Pixeltable
Pierre-Damien Vaujour — Loft Orbital
Prady Modukuru — sync.labs
Preston Zhou — Relace
Raj Palleti — alphaXiv
Ram Gorthi — Operand
Ray Kallmeyer — Enklu
Richard Givhan — Haiqu
Rishabh Srivastava — Defog
Rish Gupta — Spot AI

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