SCALE at GMI: Spooky Demo Day [Cohort 2]

Six weeks ago, 25 teams walked into SCALE with an idea and a deadline. They built through the night on GMI Cloud GPUs with NVIDIA under the hood. Some ideas died. Some came back stronger.

On Oct 23, the survivors take the stage at AGI House, Hillsborough 🎃

Cohort 2 at a glance

• 14 teams on stage from 6 countries (US, Canada, Mexico, Netherlands, India, Singapore)
• 8 teams already earning revenue, plus more in paid pilots.
• Real usage already: 30K+ users on Retriever, 700K+ agent executions at Asteroid, 350K+ automated call minutes at Conbiz.
• Early backing from YC, Antler, Cornell Tech and the NVIDIA Inception program.
• Six themes: agents, security, healthcare, infrastructure, robotics and 3D, vertical AI.

Why come

• Investors: see 23 pre-seed and seed teams with live products, real usage and a clear ask, all in one afternoon. Meet any of them 1:1 on the startup floor. Many are actively raising.
• Founders and builders: watch what is shipping right now in agents, security, healthcare and robotics, and try the products yourself at the demo stations.
• Partners and mentors: meet the people who watched these teams build.

The day (PT)

• 12:00 Arrival, lunch, early networking
• 1:00 Opening remarks: GMI Cloud x NVIDIA
• 1:15 Live founder demos: 23 teams, six minutes each
• 4:00 Partner and Mentor Signals, featuring Barack Liu (GMI Cloud) and Shikha Kansal (angel investor, ex-Scotiabank)
• 4:30 Startup floor: meet every team up close
• 5:30 Evening reception: drinks, music, the house after dark

Meet the Founders:

🕷️ Agents that do the work

• Retriever AI · Arjun Chintapalli: web agent platform for builders
• Conbiz · Aaron Jiménez: voice and messaging agents for high-volume operations
• AgentGrid · Souren Khetcho: all your coding agents in one visual workspace
• Atlas · Drew Dawson: an AI-native Mac browser with a built-in research agent
• Whentor AI · Diogo Moreira: an AI that comes back until you actually do the thing

🧪 Healthcare and life sciences

• Veriqa · Harris Dalal: catches pharma manufacturing quality failures before they happen
• Advanced Imagination Labs (Lumo) · Simon Rötzer: daily nutrition guidance between dietitian visits

🧠 Infrastructure for agents and AI labs

• Align AI · Spandana Govindgari: eval infrastructure to test and ship reliable agents
• RapidReview (Merv) · Gural Nuriyev: coding agents as autonomous ML researchers
• Proofpress · Richard Tang: an intelligence ledger for AI research teams
• Noah Labs · Murat Can Isik: the first AI IDE for regulated industries

🤖 Atoms and pixels

• Flinter · Dave Zhang: dirty data to robotics-ready pipelines
• Glovebox · Kareem Amin: AI-native game studio building games that run in your browser
• Luphra · Faruk Catak: prompt to editable 3D design to manufacturing

Parking
Please park on the golf course side of Eucalyptus Street. DO NOT park on the house side, the walkway, or anywhere else on Floribunda. Any parking violations could jeopardize the event’s operation and may also result in your car being towed.

Transportation & Shuttle

Provided by Corgi: free shuttle from Corgi Cafe (Claude Lane, SF). Departs 11am and 11:30am, returns from AGI House at 7:00pm and 8:00pm. First come, first served.

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