About AI2 Incubator
AI2 Incubator, an accelerator and incubator program founded in 2014, is based in Seattle, United States. With a presence in 1 country, it has supported around 22 startups in sectors like Enterprise Applications, High Tech. As of Oct 2026, AI2 Incubator has witnessed 5 portfolio exits. Most notable companies in
its portfolio include Wellsaid, Vercept and CalmWave. The program is backed by a team of 31 people who primarily support Seed startups based in United States. Its latest investment was a $2.1M Seed round in Emphere on Jun 04, 2026 along with Outsiders Fund.
Key Metrics
Founded Year
2014
Location
Seattle, United States
Sectors of Investment
Stages of Investment
Seed & Series A
Locations of Investment
AI2 Incubator's List of Top Investments
AI2 Incubator has a portfolio of 22 companies. Their most notable investments are in Lexion and Kitt.ai.Their portfolio spans across and United States. They have invested in Enterprise Applications, High Tech, FinTech and 11 other sectors, across stages such as Seed, Series A stages. Here is the list of top investments by AI2 Incubator:
1. Wellsaid
Developer of an AI platform providing text-to-speech voiceover solutions. The platform offers a studio to generate voice from scripts, using a selection of licensed voices. It provides collaboration tools for shared projects, role-based access, and content management. The platform integrates with creative tools and offers an API for adding voice to products.
Key facts about Wellsaid
- Location: Seattle (United States)
- Stage: Series A
- Total Funding till date: $12M
- Employee Count: 53 as on Sep 30, 2026
- Investors: Qualcomm Ventures, FUSE and 5 Others
- Latest Funding Round: Venture Debt, Mar 17, 2026, $*****
- Highlight: Editors' Pick
2. Vercept
Developer of an AI-powered computer interface designed to automate tasks. It offers a tool that operates directly from the user's computer to complete tasks. The interface handles repetitive tasks and automates workflows. It allows users to upload files and images for analysis and action.
Key facts about Vercept
- Founded Year: 2024
- Location: Seattle (United States)
- Stage: Acqui-Hired
- Total Funding till date: $50M
- Employee Count: 2 as on Sep 30, 2026
- Investors: Fifty Years, Point Nine and 4 Others
- Latest Funding Round: Seed, Jun 11, 2025, $*****
- Highlight: Editors' Pick

3. CalmWave
Key facts about CalmWave
- Founded Year: 2022
- Location: Seattle (United States)
- Stage: Seed
- Total Funding till date: $13.6M
- Employee Count: 23 as on Sep 30, 2026
- Investors: Third Prime, Bonfire Ventures and 9 Others
- Latest Funding Round: Seed, Jun 27, 2025, $*****
- Highlight: Editors' Pick

4. Augment AI
Augment AI is the intelligence layer for relationship-driven businesses. At its center is Decision Site, a relationship operating system for multi-stakeholder, multi-step relationships: any process where several people move through progressive steps to reach an outcome, rather than a single transaction. That work skews toward sales and customer teams at large enterprises, but it applies just as well to a small company running complex sales cycles. Augment's LLM-agnostic technology harness draws in the calls, emails, third-party data, and tools an organization already uses, then applies that organization's own methodologies, vocabulary, and pricing to produce expert outputs. Most AI today runs on pull: someone prompts an assistant, and the answer is only as good as the prompt. Decision Site runs on push. Its outputs flow to people preemptively, in the email, Slack, Teams, or CRM they already use, so nobody has to learn a new tool or remember to ask. Push works because Decision Site keeps a persistent record of relationship context across every stakeholder and channel and maps it to a plan for reaching each outcome. That plan starts as the ideal set of milestones and tasks and adjusts with every new stakeholder, so when someone says they also need to bring in a colleague, that step is added and tracked through to the outcome. Workflows built from a catalog of hundreds of skills, tuned to each client's own playbook, produce what each step needs: a scouting report before a meeting, a call plan and call output after one, and a business case or battle card when a deal calls for either. Core Capabilities Decision Site: A shared, per-account record of meetings, emails, and commitments, organized into a shared view the customer can see and act on directly. It is built for both sides of a decision, not as a seller's deal room. Workflow and skills catalog: Augment's Intelligence Catalog of hundreds of built-in and client-specific skills, arranged into workflows that produce the outputs a deal needs at each stage, such as scouting reports, call plans, business cases, and battle cards. Headless CRM updates: Calls, emails, and decisions update account records within minutes of a call ending, without a rep opening the tool, cutting the manual data entry most CRM rollouts depend on. Mutual Plan and NextStep: The Mutual Plan lays out what each party, including the customer, needs to do to reach a decision. NextStep turns every meeting into clear actions for each person. Deal health and relationship signals: A Pulse score reads deal health from what the customer says, not only what the rep reports, and a weekly executive report names the handful of accounts that need attention. Work that comes to you: Every output arrives where people already work, whether that's email, Slack, Teams, or the CRM. There is no new tool to open and nothing to remember to ask for. Why It Matters In complex, multi-stakeholder deals, relationships stall when context lives in different people's heads and CRM records lag behind what was said. Decision Site closes that gap by giving every side the full picture without piecing it together across inboxes, meetings, and systems, so momentum carries from one conversation to the next. The same dynamics that make multi-stakeholder workflows hard in sales, with many people and work changing hands across many steps, show up in other verticals too. That is the foundation for Augment's growing work in banking and financial services, where the same harness, built on the same concepts, runs governed back-office workflows such as loan boarding, client onboarding, and document reconciliation and delivers that work wherever people already are. Every output is built on the playbooks of a team with decades in outsourced sales, customer programs, and investment banking.
Key facts about Augment AI
- Location: Seattle (United States)
- Stage: Seed
- Total Funding till date: $3.45M
- Employee Count: 17 as on Sep 30, 2026
- Investors: JAZZ Venture Partners, Flying Fish Ventures and 2 Others
- Latest Funding Round: Seed, Jan 05, 2022, $*****

5. Why Labs
Provider of an AI analysis platform for ML models. Enables users to monitor raw structured or unstructured data, and features real-time actionable insights, data predictions, and actuals. Allows users to observe, analyze and explain model behavior through the user-friendly interface.
Key facts about Why Labs
- Founded Year: 2019
- Location: Seattle (United States)
- Last Known Valuation: $*****
- Stage: Acquired
- Total Funding till date: $14M
- Employee Count: 52 as on Sep 30, 2026
- Investors: Defy, Bezos Expeditions and 5 Others
- Latest Funding Round: Series A, Nov 04, 2021, $*****
- Highlight: Acquired
AI2 Incubator's Year-on-Year Investment Trends
AI2 Incubator has invested in 22 companies over the last 6 years, with an average of 3 new investments annually in the last 5 years. In 2025, it made 7 investments, while as of Jun 2026, it has made 1 investment in this year. Its most recent first time investment was in Emphere.Year | No. of Investments | ||
|---|---|---|---|
1st Round | Follow-on | Total | |
2026 (YTD) | 1 | 0 | 1 |
2025 | 7 | 0 | 7 |
2024 | 3 | 0 | 3 |
2023 | 1 | 0 | 1 |
2022 | 2 | 0 | 2 |
2021 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
2020 | 4 | 0 | 4 |
AI2 Incubator's Investments by Stage
AI2 Incubator has made 17 investments in Seed stage with an average round size of $5M and 1 investment in Series A stage with an average round size of $15M.Stage of entry | No. of Investments |
|---|---|
Seed | 17 |
Series A | 1 |
Note: We have considered here, only first round of investments
AI2 Incubator's Investments by Sector
AI2 Incubator has a diverse portfolio, with companies operating in the Enterprise Applications, High Tech, Artificial Intelligence - Industry Applications, Vertical SaaS and FinTech. Notably, it has invested in 21 Tech companies, 19 Enterprise (B2B) companies, 19 Software companies and at least 12 companies focusing on AI-Native.Sector | No. of Investments |
|---|---|
Enterprise Applications | 15 |
High Tech | 9 |
Artificial Intelligence - Industry Applications | 4 |
Vertical SaaS | 4 |
FinTech | 3 |
Others | 13 |
Note: We have considered here, only first round of investments
AI2 Incubator's Investments by Geography
AI2 Incubator has made most investments in United States (17).AI2 Incubator's recent investments
AI2 Incubator has made 1 investments in 2026 so far - Emphere.Here are the most recent investments by AI2 Incubator:
Date | Company | Location | Round Details | Round Amount | Co-Investors |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Jun 04, 2026 | United States | Seed | 5717 | ||
Nov 05, 2025 | United States | Seed | 8973 | [+7] | |
Oct 20, 2025 | United States | Seed | 4001 | [+3] | |
Sep 16, 2025 | United States | Seed | 9143 | [+4] | |
Sep 16, 2025 | United States | Series A | 2215 | [+2] |
Acquired companies in AI2 Incubator's Portfolio
5 companies from AI2 Incubator's portfolio have been acquired. The most recent acquisition was Vercept in Feb 2026 by Anthropic for $*****.Here are AI2 Incubator's portfolio companies that got acquired most recently:
Company | Acquisition Date | First Invested on | First Round of Investment | Round Size |
|---|---|---|---|---|
Feb 25, 2026 | Jun 11, 2025 | Seed | 2458 | |
Jan 24, 2025 | - | - | 8386 | |
May 06, 2024 | Jan 16, 2020 | Seed | 1005 | |
Jan 15, 2020 | - | - | 9284 | |
Jul 05, 2017 | Jan 16, 2020 | Seed | 1646 |
Team profile of AI2 Incubator
AI2 Incubator has a team of 31 members including 6 Partners, 6 Venture Partners and 3 Principals located in United States, Japan and 1 more location. AI2 Incubator's team does not sit on the board of any company as of now.Here is a list of top team members in AI2 Incubator:
Name | Designation | Location | Board Memberships | Contact Details |
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Partner | - | - | ||
Partner | - | - | - | |
Partner | - | - | ||
Partner | - | - | ||
Partner | Seattle | - | ||
Partner | Bellevue | - | ||
Venture Partner | Seattle | - | ||
Venture Partner | Seattle | - | - | |
Venture Partner | Montreal | - | - | |
Venture Partner | United States | - | - | |
Venture Partner | Seattle | - |
Co-investors of AI2 Incubator
Over the past 6 years, 72 investors have co-invested in AI2 Incubator's portfolio companies. This includes funds and angels.
- Invested before AI2 Incubator: Voyager Capital, Qualcomm Ventures and 7 others have invested in rounds before AI2 Incubator. There is 1 company where Voyager Capital has invested before AI2 Incubator and 1 company where Qualcomm Ventures has invested before AI2 Incubator.
- Top Co-investors of AI2 Incubator: 39 investors entered a company along with AI2 Incubator. These include investors like Point72 Ventures (3 companies).
- Invested after AI2 Incubator: A total of 24 investors have invested in AI2 Incubator's portfolio after their investments. Top Investors include Voyager (1 company) and Qualcomm Ventures (1 company).
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