The AI
Collective
Our Foundation, Built With You
Learn About Our Founding Members
As The AI Collective officially launches, I'm filled with such a profound sense of gratitude and excitement. This milestone was co-created with you – our incredible community – from the very first spark. Our shared story is just beginning, and your passion will shape our journey ahead.
The soul of this Collective has always been you. If our mission for a trusted, open, and human-centric AI resonates with you, then you're already family. In this unique moment of our new beginning, my team and I wanted to deeply honor your foundational role: the part you play in laying these first, crucial stones.
That's why it brought me so much joy to have invited our community to become Founding Members of The AI Collective. To commemorate their commitment and join this inaugural group, they:
- Attended at least one Collective event during our launch week. Our global online event was a wonderful way to connect!
- Shared this moment by engaging with our main launch announcement post on social media: reposting or tagging someone who shared our vision.
As Founding Members, and with our deepest thanks for their early belief:
- Their names are celebrated right here on this page (aicollective.com/founders), a lasting tribute to their part in our genesis, exclusively for those who joined us during our founding moment.
- They received an exclusive digital Founding Member badge, unlocking future perks in our member portal and signifying their early commitment.
- They enjoy early access to select AI Collective announcements, projects, and research.
This journey is ours, together. Your support, your voice, as we stand at this hopeful beginning, means the world to me. Let's build something future generations will thank us for!
With love,Chappy Asel
Co-founder, Executive Director
The AI Collective
Founding Community Members

Aarij Khan

Aaron Childress

Aaron Yang

Aashish Luthra

Aashna Kumar

Abhishek Kalra

Abhishek Sisodia

Adam G.

Adam Hall

Adam Mendler

Adam Treitler

Adam Wilson

Adam Wolnikowski

Adarsh Divakaran

Adedoyinsola Ogungbesan

Adil Dittmer

Aditya Mohan

Aditya Rohit

Advait Shinde

Ahmed Mekallach

Aiden Yau

Ajay Bawa

Akash Miharia

Akshay Patil

Albert Jokelin

Alec James

Alec Lance

Aleksandra Niewiadomska

Alex Astrum

Alex Hau

Alex Kan

Alex Mashrabov

Alex Roytenberg

Alex Timbol

Ali Ghafoori

Alisha Harris

Allen Duan

Allen Wang

Alok Srivastava

Amal Kiran

Amanda Cheng

Amelia Zack

Amit Pande

Ananta Verma

Anar Taori

Anastassia Kornilova

Anatoly Chlenov

Anaïs Howland

Andrea Brizuela

Andrea Faith Alimorong

Andrea Liao

Andreas Kupper

Andrew Edwards

Andrew Stevko

André Antonelli

Aneysha Bhat

Angela Tseng

Angeline Tan

Anguel H.

Anindya Obi

Ann Mehra

Anna Hazard

Annabel Pemberton

Anthony Costello

Anthony Saul

Anu Rai

Anup Mantri

Anurag Juneja

Ariel Margolis

Aris C.

Arjun Arora

Arran K.

Arthi Krishna

Arthur Umerov

Arturo Ospina

Aryaman Agrawal

Arzan Raimalwala

Aseem Asthana

Ashwin Kalkar

Assi Horowitz

Austin Ottinger

Axelle Girardot

Ayan Barua

Ayssar Arida

Baran Atmanoglu

Barun Halder

Becky Gietzel

Belmer Negrillo

Ben Bartolome

Ben Holfeld

Ben Newman

Benjamin Larsen

Bereket Gebreselassie

Bhavana Rana

Bhawna Rupani

Bhuvi Agrawal

Bill Kane

Blas Giffuni

Brad Dressler

Brad Garsten

Brandi Beasley

Brandon Smith

Brandon Sturgis

Brian Allen

Brian Boyd

Brian Klein

Brian Lue

Brian Mcabee

Brian Pendleton

Bridget Burke

Bruce Fogelstrom

Bruno Lasevicius

Bryant Lee

Cameron Frost

Canice Wu

Carli Stein

Carol Monroe

Carolina Cantor

Carolina Garcia Rizo

Casey Lauer

Cecilia Ziniti

Cedric Giorgi

Cesar Valenzuela

Chan Ric

Chandramouli Pandya

Charlie Hammell

Cheh Hoo

Cheryl Lentz

Chidum Okoye

Chingiz Torobekov

Chris Ackerman

Chris Dargin

Chris Ivester

Chris Shu

Christopher Berry

Christopher Doré

Chrystal Price

Chuck Whiteman

Chuhui Fu

Chukwuka Jiabana

Cinthya Jauregui

Cloud Force

Clovis Vinant-tang

Clément Moutet

Corey Kelly

Cosmo Scharf

Court Lorenzini

Craig Rhodes

Cristina Pena

Dabl Club

Dan Bushell

Dan Pechi

Dana Letendre

Daniel B.

Daniel Green

Daniel Huie

Daniel Paredes

Danita Delce

Darius Clair

Darren Mcgee

Darsh Iyer

Dasha Yefymenko

Dave Mathews

Daveed Benjamin

David Bryckine

David Corbitt

David Cushman

David Kanter

David Rodriguez

David Santana

David Wood

Deborah Jacob

Deep Barot

Deepak Kothule

Devanand B

Diksha Pandey

Dillon Kermani

Dilyana Ocetova

Dishant Ghai

Disleve Kanku

Distefano Palma

Dominic Waltz

Donna Coxon-McCory

Dylan Humphreys

Dylan Seng

Ed Kim

Egi Troka

Eileen Fuller

Eleanor Donovan

Elena E.

Elias Benchekroun

Elizabeth Farrell

Emily Giddings

Emmanuel John

Eric Brown

Eric Harlan

Erynn Kirshner

Esther Kim

Ethan Elenberg

Eugenie Makharadze

Eunji Jeong

Fabian Binz-scharf

Fahad Hossain

Federico Jarach

Feridoon Malekzadeh

Fran Wiet

Francesco Amighetti

Francesco Favaro

Gabriela Gresenz

Galen Kim Davis

Ganesh Raut

Gary Leung

Gary Shamshoian

Gautam Srikrishna

Gavin Doughtie

GenAI Collective

George Dimitrijevic

George Eastwood

Gillian Balanoff

Gina Levy

Godwin Chan

Greg Madison

Greg Oehmen

Greg Twemlow

Grégory Bonnet

Guc Ozenci

Hari Devanathan

Hari Neupane

Harington Telford

Harish Guragol

Haroun Ahmed

Harsh Kataria

Harshal Hirpara

Harshita Gupta

Harshvardhan Sanghavi

Hasini Liyanawadu

Hendrik Krack

Henrique Jongh

Henrique Rodrigues

Hilary Gustave

Homer W.

Honest Create Team

Hussain Abbas

Ian Derrington

Ian Eisenberg

Ian Kennedy

Igor Dostanic

Igor Eydman

Irina Astrovskaya

Iris Liu

Jabari Grubb

Jackson Davies

Jagadesh Varma

Jake Crowley

James Colgan

James Pimentel-Pinto

James Shaw

Jay Dembani

Jay Kumar

Jayakrishnan JR

Jayant Subramanian

Jeannette Hanna

Jeff Berkowitz

Jeff La Tourette

Jeffrey Vique

Jennifer Chow

Jennifer Ybarra

Jenny Ge

Jenny Hamilton

Jeremiah Owyang

Jeremie Gluckman

Jeremy Boss

Jeremy Vince

Jerin Hiatt

Jesse Strober

Jessie Chen

Jieq Jerrick Lim

Jignesh Jain

Jill Briggs

Jim Tyhurst

Jim White

Jinesh Sonawala

Jiyae Choi

Joe Contini

Joe Del Callar

Joe Jordan

Joey Castro Spartz

John Hopkins-Gillispie

John Kaufhold

John Kennedy

Jolene Chan

Jon Chang

Jon Farland

Jonathan Hendler

Jonathan Lau

Jono Ridgway

Joseph Abraham

Joseph Yeh

Josh Blanaru

Josh Reini

Joshua Lamerton

Joshua Templeton

Joy Dong

Juan Peredo

Jude Sacramenthas

Julian Boralli

Julian Forero

Juliana Chyzhova

Julie Price

Justin Jacobson

Justin Simpson

Jyoti Bankapur

Kaivalya Gandhi

Kara MacDonald

Karman Singh

Kate Bunina

Kate Yan

Katherine Carr

Katherine Vittini

Kathleen Ross

Keir Skoel

Keith Echevarria

Kelly Salloum

Ken Decanio

Kevin Geck

Kevin Kunze

Kevin Morris

Kevin Tucker

Kif Leswing

Kim Chia

Kirill Brodski

Kirthi K.

Koran Munafo

Kothandaraman Sikamani

Kristen Bornstein

Kristen Mirenda

Kristin McDonald

Kristin Wolff

Krzysztof Kosman

Kuldeep Tanwar

Kunal Goel

Kurt Hamm

L Berson

Lakshmi Narayanee

Lana Guernsey

Laura- Florentine

Lauren Clark

Laurence Sy

Layan Kutob

Leon Herszon

Leslie Koch

Liam O'driscoll

Liana Louie

Lila Selin

Lilah Brander

Lisa Fagen

LouAnn Conner

Lucas De La Torre

Luis Poveda

Lukasz Lysakowski

Lukáš Pitter

Lydia Dejesus

Lydia Flocchini

Lyonna Lam

Lyssette C.

Maanas Taneja

Madison Smith

Magda Prichodko

Maggi Xu

Mahak Kaur

Mamta Suri

Mandapati Lakshmankumar Reddy

Manish Agrawal

Manuel Rodriguez

Manzoorul Hassan

Marc Freiman

Marc Luna

Marcelo Labre

Marcia Hutchinson

Marek Miltner

Maria Singh

Marianne R.

Mariia Potupchik

Marilo Meta

Marina Wolters Rihani

Mark Michelson

Mark Mueller-Eberstein

Mark Rojas

Mark Woodward

Martin Gutierrez

Martina Matthews

Mary Grygleski

Maryam Daftarian

Matt Darling

Matt Lynch

Matteo Cariglia

Mauricio Teles

Max Kotov

Maya Matthews

Mayuk Reddy

Maziar Darvish

Meghan Booth

Melissa Alton

Melonie De Guzman

Mergen

Meru Sharma

Mi Call

Micah Adler

Michael Fox

Michael Gilchrist

Michael Hess

Michael Norman

Michael Raspuzzi

Michael Sherain

Michael Smith

Michał Krzyżanowski

Michał Kłak

Mike Chrabaszcz

Mike Hale

Mike Hickman

Mike Prince

Mike Robbat

Miles Wiesenthal

Milton Ren

Mitchell Rubinstein

Mohammad Jawad

Mouhammad J.

Mustafa Saeed

Nadia Eldeib

Naira Singh

Naman Anand

Namratha Dasalukunte Sridhar

Nancy Burditt

Nancy Zheng

Naron Triplett

Natalia Bielczyk

Nate Bek

Nate Holmes

Nathalie Brochstein

Nayul Kim

Nicholas Frangia

Nicholas Yebra

Nick Afonsky

Nickhil Tekwani

Niclas Comstedt

Nicole Doyle

Nicole Guo

Nikol Hayes

Nikola Markov

Nina Araujo

Noela Nakos

Olanrewaju AMUDIPE

Oleg Guryanov

Owen Terry

Pablo Serrallonga

Pancrazio Auteri

Parth Shukla

Patricio Quezada

Patrick Damaso

Patt Chokchainant

Paul Berman

Paul Ferguson

Paul Smith

Paulina Szyzdek

Pavankumar Goli

Payom Niazmandi

Pete Cheslock

Peter Corless

Phaedra Corrente

Phaneendra Gullapalli

Phil Rimmler

Philip Robertson

Pierre Ejiba

Piyush Kunjilwar

Poorna Ravuri

Popin

Prachi Sethi

Prag Batra

Prakhar Shakya

Pranjal Agarwal

Pratyush Shukla

Priya Shah

Priyanka Kulkarni

Qasim Wani

Quentin Reul

Rachel Herforth

Rachel Weissman

Radhika Malik

Raghu Chalasani

Rahul Gautam

Raj Sandhu

Raj Singh

Rajashekar Vennavelli

Rajat Pawar

Rajesh Govindarajan

Ramon Serrallonga

Ramy Elmallah

Ravindra M.k

Raymond Chik

Raymond Y.

Rayna Monforti

Reem Mukamal

Revanth Korrapolu

Richard Sheng

Rishabh Banga

Rishi Palriwala

Rishie Narula

Rishub Nahar

Riz Mithani

Rob Link

Robert Alvarez

Robert Edwards

Robyn Swick

Roger Kibbe

Rohan Varma

Rohit Khare

Rolanda Fu

Ron Thompson

Rose Hartwig

Roy Chan

Ruby Yeh

Rutger Van Faassen

Rutwij Devashrayee

Ryan Cavanagh

Ryan Malani

Ryota Sekine

Sabrina Dove

Sachin Muralidhar

Sako M

Salvador Carranza

Sam Lu

Sami Atiq

Sammy Cheung

Sandeep Todi

Sanjay Sathyapriyan

Sara Bettaieb

Sara Zan

Sarah Allali

Sarah Barner

Scott Austin

Scott Elder

Scott Goldman

Scott Susanto

Sean Barger

Sean Butler

Sean Le

Sebastian Fidilio

Sebastian Mourra

Seda Papoyan

Serena Nguyen

Sergii Serednii

Sesha Achyuta

Shane Sabine

Shantanu Agarwal

Shao Hang

Sharat Satyanarayana

Shaunak Ghate

Shaurya Narang

Shawn Reddy

Shawn Thornton

Sheena Hillier

Shikha Kansal

Shreyansh Agrawal

Shruti Mishra

Shub Argha

Shubham Chaudhary

Shuling Ding

Shweta Taneja

Sid Maestre

Sid Muralidhar

Simion Yoffe

Simone Flory

Slava Mirovsky

Sneha Vellelath

Snehaal Dhruv

Sofia Assab

Sohan Vallapureddy

Soung Low

Sreekanth Vamadevan

Stanley Chiang

Stefanie Miller

Stefano Carlini

Stephan G.

Stephen Diteljan

Steve Schultz

Steven Echtman

Sumaiya Noor

Sumeet Vermani

Supheakmungkol Sarin

Suresh Srinivas

Suresh Vallabhaneni

Susanne Friese

Susie Weitzman

Suyash Ram

Suzanne Welker Jurgens

Swapna Ravi

Talus Park

Tanya Svoboda

Tao Burga

Taylor Bartley

Taylor Donner

Taylor Gendron

Tejas Kanitkar

Thomas Ferner

Tia Clement

Tiana Robinson

Tiana T.

Tim Bish

Tim Olson

Tim Spann

Todd Nelson

Tony Lodge

Tracy E.

Ty Tolbert

Uladzislau Yanchanka

Ulrik Börjesson

Ursula Spencer

Uttam Kumaran

Valentina Maltese

Varun Bhalla

Victor Mijal

Victor Ramirez

Victor Shilo

Victor Wang

Vin Ahluwalia

Vincent Alessi

Vincent Peyrègne

Vinilir

Vinod Goje

Vishakha Gupta

Viv Luu

Vivek Pandit

Vojta Jna

Walid Nasrala

Walker Chavatel

Wei-han Hsu

Weston Ballard

Will Van Eaton

William Cutler

William Moran

William Suarez

William Zhu

Wolf Ruzicka

Wolfgang Lehna

Xian Ke

Yang Qu

Yann Leger

Yarramala Rohith

Yash Chitransh

Yash Mody

Yev Spektor

Yonatan Ellert

Yuri B.

Yurii Filipchuk

Zach Albertson

Zach Zinman

Zaire Wade

Zane Ruehrwein

Zeba Karkhanawala

Zhenbo Yan

Zulfiq Isaacs

Łukasz Gawroński
Founding Team Members

Kwami Ahiabenu

Khaled Alameldin

Anthony Alcaraz

Aqeel Ali

Ayman Ali

Carlo Almendral

Ken Aragon

Anne Arcelo

Chappy Asel

Billy Asel

Yehuda Atzmon

Zac Baker

Gilberto Balderas

Karan Balaji

Prasuma Balla

Naomi Chetrit Band

Aksshatt Bariar

Alex Barnes

Farid Bellameche

Ilias Benjelloun

Brett Berhoff

Bartek Borkowski

Jack Bookey

Andrew Brown

Camron Brown

Kyra Buffo

Rissa Cao

Rochi Cairo

Stephen Campbell

Tomas Canova

Lily Chambers

Suri Chen

Bhola Chhetri

Sylvain Cordier

Brandon Crooms

Todd Creek

Mary Daftarian

Akua Darkwah

Erick Davidson

Anna D'Aprile

Karan Deep

Eric DeChant

Yi Ding

Chris Dore

Chris O'Dore

Nori Donovan

Mark Drew

David Duguan

Patrick Eibl

Henni Espinosa

Jordan Feinstein

Fahmid Kabir

Anne Fernandez

Eric Fett

Shabs Findgrant

Andrew Forsyth

Luke Furnell

Anthony Garcia

Sebastian Molina Gasman

Sarah Gencarelli

Lakshh Gontla

Ruben Gove

AJ Green

Chris Guest

Supriya Gupta

Shivani Gupta

Samarth Gupta

Avinash Haridas

Jasmine Hasmatali

Brandon Hoffman

Janna Hong

Alice Huang

Matt Huang

Samantha Hughes

Tristan Ingold

Amal Irgashev

Ashwini Iyer

Rajesh Jain

Samridhi Jain

Kumar Jhuremalani

Jonathan Johnson-Swagel

Thomas Joshi

Jonan Junwikul

Fahmid Kabir

Simran Kanda

Pierce Kelaita

Roma Khan

Vansh Khosa

Neel Kishan

Akhil Kondepudi

Magnus Kubo-Allen

Ash Kumra

Akhil Kundhavaram

Randy Lariar

Sam Li

Dan Liberti

Rahul Lobo

Xavier Lopez

Joe Luber

Venkatesh Majji

Luna Maroun

Adelina Martiniuc

Paula McMahon

Catherine McMillan

Ed Melick

Wiktor Mijal

Akshay Mittal

Kristen Montesano

Ryan Murphy

Hormuz Nariman

Venkatesh Lakshmi Narayanan

Rin Nguyen

Roy Nissim

Michael Ogata

Ruben O'Malley

Hash Pakbaz

Carlo Paladino

Dhruv Pamneja

Markiesha Patrice

Alexander Pizzirani

Xinchi Qi

Atisha Rajpurohit

Prithvi Rajasekaran

Sriram Ramakrishnan

Enyu Rao

Bill Raymond

Rohit Reddy

Jessica Robinson

Alison Rooney

Louis-Nicolas Roussel

Souvik Roy

Jennifer Saeling

Divv Saxena

Kenneth Scott

Donovan Sell

Ananya Shah

Ravi Sharma

Aman Sharma

Ayush Shrivastava

Kulbir Singh

Craig Smith

Mihir Somaiya

Ori Striechman

Krishna Sudhir

Jonathan Johnson-Swagel

Idan Tamir

Augustin Tsang

Tian Yu (TY)

Kiran Vaidya

Jose Vargas

Pranav Velleleth

Saurav Velleleth

Rahul Verma

Shurti Wagle

Ivana Wang

Kevin Wang

Wanda Wang

Sam Warach

Patrick Ward

David Wegbreit

Roan Weigert

Matt White

Charles Whiteman

Brennan Woodruff

Claire Xue

Shaun Zhang

Liel Zino
