Our latest Startup Radar spotlight features founders from the Seattle region using AI to help automate the assessment of medical records, video game production, and much more.
Read on for brief descriptions of each company — along with pitch assessments from “Mean VC,” a GPT-powered critic offering a mix of encouragement and constructive feedback.
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AttorneyAide
Founded: 2025
The business: AI tool for personal injury law firms to automate the review of medical records. It ingests records and produces structured outputs like patient chronologies, expense summaries, and draft case narratives. The product launched publicly in February, with early users in small and mid-sized personal injury firms across the U.S.
Leadership: Founder Rohit Kundaji was an engineering leader at DoorDash and a software engineering manager at Facebook and OfferUp.
Mean VC: “Solid wedge — medical record review is brutal — but the bar for accuracy and traceability is high, and one confident mistake will get you tossed. Win by being obsessively verifiable (page-level citations, redlines, review workflow), integrate with case management, and price per matter so firms can justify it instantly.”
Flightline
Founded: 2026
The business: Building a verification layer for financial decisions, starting with mortgages. Designed to help banks pressure-test decisions against documentation and rules or standards. The company is pre-launch and working with banks and independent mortgage lenders as design partners.
Leadership: Founder and CEO Jesse Collins previously co-founded Friday Harbor, a mortgage automation startup based in the Seattle region. He was also a senior engineer at Affirm and led engineering at the United States Senate Federal Credit Union.
Mean VC: “Mortgage underwriting is full of painful, expensive errors, but ‘verification layer’ can easily become a slow compliance tax that no one owns internally. Pick one must-fix point (doc-to-rule validation), make every decision fully auditable, and integrate directly into the Loan Origination System (LOS) so it saves time instead of adding steps.”
Liminary
Founded: 2024
The business: AI-native storage and memory layer that automatically recalls material from various sources when they’re needed. Initially targeting independent strategy consultants. The company spun out of Madrona Venture Labs and has raised funding from Crosslink Capital, ex/ante, and two Seattle funds: Pack VC and TheFounderVC.
Leadership: CEO Sarah Andrabi previously was a head of engineering at Dropbox and a security engineer at Microsoft.
Mean VC: “The promise — pull the right snippets from all your sources at the right moment — is real, but consultants won’t adopt another tool unless it saves hours every week and never leaks or mis-cites. Make it obsessive about provenance (citations, permissions, versioning), and package it as a ‘client-ready brief generator’ that turns scattered material into something billable in under an hour.”
Makko
Founded: 2025
The business: Game development platform aimed at helping studios and indie creators make games faster and cheaper. Its AI tools accelerate production but is designed to let humans steer creative decisions. More than 3,000 people joined its beta that wrapped up last month.
Leadership: CEO and co-founder Jeremy Bird spent more than a decade at Amazon across gaming and Prime Video. Co-founder Tony Valcarcel previously led marketing at Seattle gaming startup Shrapnel and was a digital marketing director at Convoy, and co-founder Mike Fehlauer Hayes helped create Penny Arcade Expo (PAX) conference.
Mean VC: “The risk is you become a grab bag of features when studios really want one tool they can rely on every day. Build a couple opinionated, end-to-end workflows that output production-ready assets in a consistent style, then showcase creators who shipped and will publicly say you sped them up.”
Pipeshub
Founded: 2025
The business: Open-source “workplace AI” that uses enterprise context graphs to enable search and Q&A for internal company information across existing software tools. It also lets users deploy AI agents that triage tickets, generate insights, and trigger workflows. Pipeshub is pre-revenue and recently relocated to Seattle from San Francisco after raising funding from the AI2 Incubator.
Leadership: CEO and co-founder Rishabh Gupta spent four years at Adobe working on cloud infrastructure. Co-founder Abhishek Gupta — Rishabh’s brother — was previously a vice president at Goldman Sachs leading global trading infrastructure.
Mean VC: “The space is crowded, and the quickest way to lose trust is confident answers built on stale or unauthorized data. Lean hard into permissions, citations, and freshness guarantees, then anchor adoption through an IT/helpdesk deployment with a managed option so it doesn’t turn into an internal maintenance project.”
