Startup Radar: Seattle-area startups are applying AI to medical records, gaming, mortgages, search, and more.
Our latest Startup Radar spotlight features startups from the Seattle region using AI to help automate medical records, video game production, and more.
Read on for brief descriptions of each company — and a pitch assessment from “Mean VC,” a GPT-sponsored critic who offers a mix of encouragement and constructive feedback.
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AttorneyAide
Established: 2025
Business: An AI tool for personal injury law firms to conduct medical record reviews. Imports records and produces structured outputs such as patient timelines, cost summaries, and draft case reports. The product launched publicly in February, with early adopters at small and mid-sized personal injury firms across the US
Leadership: Founder Rohit Kundaji was an engineering lead at DoorDash and a software engineering manager at Facebook and OfferUp.
VC said: “Solid wedge – medical record review is brutal – but the bar for accuracy and traceability is high, and one confidence error will get you thrown. Win with over-validation (page-level citations, red lines, review workflow), include case management, and price per case so firms can justify you quickly.”
Flight line
Established: 2026
Business: Building a layer of certainty for financial decisions, starting with mortgages. It is designed to assist banks’ stress testing decisions against documents and laws or standards. The company is pre-launch and works with banks and private mortgage lenders as design partners.
Leadership: Founder and CEO Jesse Collins previously founded Friday Harbor, a mortgage automation startup based in the Seattle area. He was also a senior engineer at Affirm and lead engineering at the United States Senate Federal Credit Union.
VC said: “Mortgage underwriting is full of painful, expensive mistakes, but the ‘verification layer’ can easily be a slow compliance tax that no one has inside. Pick one point to fix (doc-to-rule verification), make every decision fully auditable, and integrate directly with the Loan Origination System (LOS) to save time instead of adding steps.”
Liminary
It was established: 2024
Business: AI-native storage and memory layer that automatically remembers things from different sources when needed. Initially targeting independent strategic consultants. The company spun out of Madrona Venture Labs and raised funding from Crosslink Capital, ex/ante, and two Seattle funds: Pack VC and TheFounderVC.
Leadership: CEO Sarah Andrabi was previously head of engineering at Dropbox and a security engineer at Microsoft.
VC said: “The promise – pull the right snippets from all your sources at the right time – is real, but advisors won’t use another tool unless it saves hours every week and doesn’t leak or misrepresent. Make it intuitive in terms of exposure (citations, approvals, conversions), and package it as a ‘customer-friendly brief generator’ that turns a scattershot into something in less than an hour.”
Makho
Established: 2025
Business: A game development platform aimed at helping studios and indie creators make games faster and cheaper. Its AI tools speed up production but are designed to let people guide creative decisions. More than 3,000 people joined its beta that ended last month.
Leadership: CEO and founder Jeremy Bird spent more than a decade at Amazon across games and Prime Video. Co-founder Tony Valcarcel previously led marketing at Seattle gaming startup Shrapnel and was director of digital marketing at Convoy, and co-founder Mike Fehlauer Hayes helped create the Penny Arcade Expo (PAX) conference.
VC said: “The danger is that you become a grab bag for features where studios really want one tool they can rely on every day. Build a multi-concept, end-to-end workflow that delivers production-ready assets in a consistent style, then show the creators who submitted them and they’ll publicly say you’ve sped them up.”
Pipeshub
Established: 2025
Business: Open source “workplace AI” that uses business context graphs to enable search and Q&A on internal company information across all existing software tools. It also allows users to deploy AI agents that check tickets, generate insights, and trigger workflows. Pipeshub is an income startup and recently moved to Seattle from San Francisco after raising funding from the AI2 Incubator.
Leadership: CEO and founder Rishabh Gupta spent four years at Adobe working on cloud infrastructure. Founder Abhishek Gupta – Rishabh’s brother – was previously a vice president at Goldman Sachs leading global trading infrastructure.
VC said: “The space is crowded, and the fastest way to despair is to trust answers built on outdated or unverified data. Focus more on approvals, citations, and new assurances, then strengthen acquisitions with IT/help desk implementations with a managed option so it doesn’t turn into an internal maintenance project.”
