US AI founders list

The US AI founders list includes 169 people in the United States, collected Oct 12, 2026, including Aaron Edwards, Aayush Tyagi, Abhijeet Parida.

Current founder or co-founder role with no end date; named company; US person location with a city and state. Sector phrase match in the selected company name, title or industry (quoted per row), not a product check; headlines and non-operating organization labels excluded. The evidence quotes a stored company, title or industry field; a phrase match does not verify a product.

States: California (75), New York (24), Texas (13), Massachusetts (9), Florida (6), Illinois (5), Georgia (4), Colorado (3), District of Columbia (3), Minnesota (2), Missouri (2), Nevada (2), New Mexico (2), North Carolina (2), Tennessee (2), Washington (2), Connecticut (1), Delaware (1), Hawaii (1), Idaho (1), Indiana (1), Kentucky (1), New Hampshire (1), New Jersey (1), Ohio (1), Oregon (1), Pennsylvania (1), South Carolina (1), Utah (1). Cities: San Francisco (40), New York (22), Boston (5), Los Angeles (5), Atlanta (4), Austin (4), Chicago (4), Dallas (4), San Jose (4), Mountain View (3), Palo Alto (3), Washington (3), Berkeley (2), Denver (2), Minneapolis (2), Redwood City (2), San Diego (2), Seattle (2), Sunnyvale (2), Albuquerque (1), Altamonte Springs (1), Amherst (1), Anaheim (1), Aurora (1), Avon Park (1), Boca Raton (1), Brookline (1), Brooklyn (1), Charlotte (1), Cisco (1), Cleveland (1), Danville (1), Del Mar (1), Egg Harbor (1), El Segundo (1), Happy Valley (1), Henderson (1), Hilo (1), Houston (1), Kansas City (1), Las Vegas (1), Liberty (1), Lindon (1), Long Beach (1), Louisville (1), Lynn (1), Manchester (1), Marina del Rey (1), Maryville (1), Meridian (1), Miami (1), Myrtle Beach (1), Nashville (1), New Braunfels (1), New Haven (1), Oakland (1), Philadelphia (1), Raleigh (1), Richmond (1), San Anselmo (1), San Carlos (1), San Mateo (1), Santa Fe (1), Sarasota (1), Saratoga (1), Skokie (1), South Bend (1), Spring (1), St. Petersburg (1), Tappan (1), Westford (1), Wilmington (1), Yorba Linda (1). Locations describe people, not company headquarters.

158 companies. Repeated companies: Artificial Intelligence Underwriting Company (3), Artificial Intelligence Identification, Inc. (2), Artificial Intelligence Multidisciplinary Society (AIM) (2), Atlanta Generative AI Group (2), Generative: AI Art and Culture Series (2), Hema AI (2), Recyclers Artificial Intelligence Services Corp (2), Simbie AI (2), Simple AI (2), Stevens Society of Artificial Intelligence (2)

Last collected Oct 12, 2026. Individual collection dates are included in downloads. No refresh is scheduled; confirm current roles on LinkedIn.

No. These 169 published profiles come from 169 qualifying records in a query-selected pool of 5481 candidates. All qualifying cached records are included. Display order is A–Z by name, not a ranking. Counts describe this sample, not the market.

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