Napster co-founder leads secretive Seattle startup that just raised $3.5M to ‘supercharge productivity

• BySaksham Daga     |    January 7, 2022

A group of experienced entrepreneurs and technicians have come together to lead a new Seattle startup aimed at “improving productivity.” 

 Details: Augment AI Corp is still in stealth mode, but GeekWire has  just raised a $ 3.45 million seed for startups and Seattle’s Allen Institute for Artificial incubator Intelligence (AI2) is being phased out. I found out. 

 The company has not yet shared much information about the software. According to the company’s website, the founders gathered “on the basis of a strong common belief that all our devices and apps should work together to do  more for us.” 

 “The devices and apps we use every day know us very well, but we don’t make much use of that knowledge, so we have to repeat the same tasks every day,” said CEO and co-worker. Founder Jordan said. Statement liter. “Augment increases productivity and ultimately frees you from the details.” 

 Founder: Ritter was formerly co-founder of file-sharing company Napster and, with the help of Bill Gates, launched a  startup called Atlas Informatics in Seattle. It was running. There was a similar productivity orientation. Atlas has developed a personal search engine that runs in the background on your computer and records the activity of various apps and services. The idea was to allow users to quickly find information from files, emails, and other sources. Atlas was closed in 2017, two years after its launch. 

 Ritter also co-founded Seattle startups Cloudmark, Serbio and Ivy Softworks, which were closed in 2016. Other founders of 

  Augment  include: 

Daniel Ladvocat Cintra, a former Google employee and director of Axon.  Saurav Pahadia, a former engineer for Seattle startups Strike Graph and Madrona Venture Labs.  Shu Wu, a former leader of Facebook, Microsoft, Redfin and Wavii. Investors: Supporters are Flying Fish Ventures and JAZZ Venture Partners. 

 “We have a common vision that artificial intelligence and machine learning can make us all  more productive and, importantly, spend a lot of time,” said Flying Fish’s managing partner. One Geoff Harris said in a statement. “I started this vision when I was working on Cortana at Microsoft. I’m passionate about helping companies  want to  fully realize this vision.”

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