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内容总结：

西雅图初创圈迎来了一场罕见的活动。本周三，AI House在其位于70号码头的孵化器与风投基金办公室举办了一场演示日，旨在为本地创始人引入外部资金。来自波士顿、纽约、科罗拉多和湾区的投资人专程飞抵西雅图参加。AI House董事总经理张一帆表示，大家一直在抱怨本地资金不足，却没人采取行动，于是他们动用自身人脉邀请全美各地投资人前来。出席的投资人包括旧金山Conviction合伙人Mike Vernal、Threshold Ventures创始人兼管理合伙人Emily Melton，以及波士顿NextView Ventures联合创始人Rob Go，西雅图本地众多知名风投也到场参与。

共有25家早期初创公司登台路演，其中许多并非AI House自身投资组合中的企业，这是刻意安排。张一帆希望展示西雅图的多面性：既有围绕真实问题和营收构建的初创公司，也有在做“疯狂大胆之事”的技术人员。西雅图房贷科技初创公司Friday Harbor的CEO Theo Ellis称其为“西雅图版的YC演示日”。他说，本地许多初创公司“未必身处最光鲜的赛道”，但它们有真实客户且增长迅速。他以自身为例表示，房贷放贷技术“虽不是登陆木星的核动力机器人，但这是一个巨大市场，众多企业愿意为此付费”。Ellis在路演中透露，Friday Harbor在8月份承保了全美住宅房贷申请量的0.6%，公司已开始启动A轮融资。

参与路演的公司中许多曾被GeekWire报道过，除Friday Harbor外，还包括Optimly、Vantari、Jinn Labs、GateIn、Casium、Orbital Robotics、Viata、Ridge AI、Caddi、Lev、Aria（前身为Alpyne Labs）和Synthesize Bio。另一些则是新面孔：Moria利用AI为矿业公司生成技术研究报告，联合创始人Jimmy Voorhis称一位客户在两个月内将合同从10万美元扩大到90万美元；Hubble是Y Combinator 2026夏季批次公司，正在构建获取患者医疗记录的API；Atlas由前Ai2研究员Chandra Bhagavatula联合创立，正在开发可承担企业日常运营的AI；Reflection Robotics由前英伟达机器人研究经理Arsalan Mousavian领导，构建让工厂机器人通过单次演示学会精确任务的AI模型；Eidol是AI House投资组合中一家洛杉矶公司，其软件可监听现场歌手演唱并使预录人声轨道与表演保持同步，创始人兼CEO Clayton Janes与公司首席艺术家官、Letters to Cleo主唱Kay Hanley一同登台；Comment.io由前微软和Textio产品负责人Jon Gordner联合创立，正在打造供人们审核和批准AI代理产出的工具；Axel是一款AI旅行代理，创始人兼CEO Stephen Grabowski称其年化旅行预订额约3000万美元；Suede由西雅图零售商Pipe and Row前商品总监Danielle Dantche创立，为独立精品店自动化产品上架和采购订单，过去90天处理了990万美元库存；Ergoly由AJ Gleser和Dan Moore联合创立，帮助小型服务企业为每个客户训练和部署AI员工；Finch由前Brightflow AI CEO Jeffrey Priebe创立，构建用于策划和运营线下客户拓展活动的AI。

活动尾声，AI House联合创始人兼董事总经理Jacob Colker向外地投资人发出呼吁。他表示，该地区充满“太空、科学、技术、生物、健康、创业建设者”，好点子远超本地投资人的出资能力，“现实是太平洋西北地区资金就是不够”。他说，这正是外地投资人的机会，预计他们将发现“绝佳的投资机会和优质交易”。Colker说，西雅图“值得你们投入时间、资金、关注和精力”。

中文翻译：

AI House本周把来自波士顿、纽约、科罗拉多和湾区的投资人请到了西雅图，目的是一件这座城市创业圈很少尝试的事：举办一场demo day，帮助本地创始人对接外部资金。

活动于周三在AI House位于70号码头的创业孵化器和风投基金办公室举行，共有25家早期初创公司登台路演。其中许多公司并不属于AI House自己的投资组合，而这是有意为之——活动创意的提出者、AI House董事总经理张一凡（音译）如是说。

“我们都在抱怨这里资金不够，但没有人采取行动，”张一凡说。于是AI House动用了自己的人脉，联系了全美各地的投资人，她说，“人们从四面八方飞过来参加。”

到场投资人包括旧金山Conviction的合伙人Mike Vernal、Threshold Ventures的创始人兼管理合伙人Emily Melton，以及波士顿NextView Ventures的联合创始人Rob Go。许多西雅图本地知名风投人士也出席了活动。

张一凡说，她希望这份路演名单能展现西雅图的多面性：既有围绕真实问题和营收建立的初创公司，也有在做“疯狂大胆之事”的技术人。

西雅图房贷科技初创公司Friday Harbor的CEO Theo Ellis称这场活动是“西雅图版的YC Demo Day”，指的是Y Combinator在湾区举办的展示日。

他说，这座城市许多初创公司“未必处在最光鲜的赛道上”，但它们有真实客户，且在快速增长。就他而言，Ellis说，房贷放贷技术“不像是核动力机器人登陆木星那么酷炫，但它是一个巨大的市场，有大量企业愿意为之付费。”

Ellis在路演中告诉观众，Friday Harbor在8月份承保了全美所有住宅按揭申请中0.6%的份额，公司已开始启动A轮融资。

许多参与路演的公司此前已被GeekWire报道过。除Friday Harbor外，还包括Optimly、Vantari、Jinn Labs、GateIn、Casium、Orbital Robotics、Viata、Ridge AI、Caddi、Lev、Aria（前身为Alpyne Labs）和Synthesize Bio。

其余公司对我们来说较为陌生，至少以其目前的面貌而言：

• Moria，由Chris Mutzel和Jimmy Voorhis联合创立，利用AI为矿业公司制作技术研究报告。Voorhis说，有一家客户在两个月内将合同金额从10万美元扩大到90万美元。
• Hubble，Y Combinator 2026年夏季批次公司，由CEO Prabha Dublish和CTO Aaron Leon联合创立，正在构建一个用于调取患者医疗记录的API。
• Atlas，由CEO Chandra Bhagavatula（前Ai2研究员）和Martín Ramírez联合创立，正在开发AI来承担公司大量日常运营工作。
• Reflection Robotics，由联合创始人兼CEO Arsalan Mousavian（前英伟达机器人研究经理）领导，正在构建让工厂机器人通过单次演示即可学会精细任务的AI模型。
• Eidol，AI House投资组合公司，总部位于洛杉矶，其软件能实时聆听现场歌手演唱，并让预先录制的声轨与表演保持同步。创始人兼CEO Clayton Janes与公司首席艺术家官、Letters to Cleo乐队主唱Kay Hanley一同登台路演。
• Comment.io，由CEO Jon Gordner（前微软和Textio产品负责人）和CTO Max Winderbaum（Textio资深工程负责人）联合创立，正在打造一款供人们审核和批准AI智能体产出工作的工具。
• Axel，由创始人兼CEO Stephen Grabowski领导，是一款AI旅行代理，声称能找到低于公开价格的机票和酒店。Grabowski表示，其年化旅行预订额约为3000万美元。
• Suede，由Danielle Dantche创立，她曾是西雅图零售商Pipe and Row的商品总监，公司为独立精品店自动化商品上架和采购订单流程。Dantche说，过去90天已处理了990万美元的库存。
• Ergoly，由AJ Gleser和Dan Moore联合创立，帮助小型服务公司为每个客户培训和部署AI员工。
• Finch，由前Brightflow AI CEO Jeffrey Priebe创立，正在构建AI来策划和执行企业用于结识潜在客户的线下活动。

活动尾声，AI House联合创始人兼董事总经理Jacob Colker向远道而来的投资人做了推介，延续了他近期在GeekWire客座专栏中的主题，以及他在7月西雅图科技周上发出的号召。

他说，这个地区到处都是“航天、科学、技术、生物、健康、创业建设者”，好点子远多于本地投资人能资助的数量。“现实就是，太平洋西北地区资金就是不够。”他说，这正是到访投资人的机会所在，并预测他们会发现“极好的投资机会和极好的交易”。

Colker说，西雅图“值得你投入时间、投资、关注和精力。”

英文来源：

AI House brought investors from as far as Boston, New York, Colorado and the Bay Area to Seattle this week for something the city’s startup scene has rarely tried: a demo day meant to help bring outside money to local founders.
Twenty-five early-stage startups pitched at the event, held Wednesday at the startup incubator and venture capital fund’s offices on Pier 70. Many of them weren’t part of AI House’s own portfolio, and that was by design, said Yifan Zhang, an AI House managing director, who came up with the idea for the event.
“We all complained about not having enough capital here, but no one was doing anything about it,” Zhang said. So AI House tapped its own connections to investors in other parts of the country, she said, and “people flew in from all over for this.”
Investors in attendance included Mike Vernal, a partner at San Francisco-based Conviction; Emily Melton, founder and managing partner of Threshold Ventures; and Rob Go, co-founder of Boston-based NextView Ventures. Many well-known Seattle-based venture capitalists also attended the event.
Zhang said she wanted the lineup to show multiple sides of Seattle: startups built around real problems and revenue, and technologists doing “crazy ambitious things.”
Theo Ellis, CEO of Seattle mortgage-tech startup Friday Harbor, called it “Seattle’s answer to YC Demo Day,” a reference to Y Combinator’s showcase in the Bay Area.
Many of the city’s startups are “not necessarily in the flashiest spaces,” he said, but they have real customers and are growing fast. For his part, Ellis said, mortgage lending technology is “not exactly nuclear-powered robots landing on Jupiter, but it’s an enormous market with a lot of businesses willing to pay for it.”
Ellis told the crowd during his pitch that Friday Harbor underwrote 0.6% of all U.S. residential mortgage applications in August, and that the company is starting to raise its Series A round.
Many of the companies that pitched have been covered by GeekWire. In addition to Friday Harbor, they included Optimly, Vantari, Jinn Labs, GateIn, Casium, Orbital Robotics, Viata, Ridge AI, Caddi, Lev, Aria (formerly Alpyne Labs) and Synthesize Bio.
Others were new to us, at least in their current incarnations:

• Moria, co-founded by Chris Mutzel and Jimmy Voorhis, uses AI to produce technical studies for mining companies. Voorhis said one customer expanded a $100,000 contract to $900,000 in two months.
• Hubble, a Y Combinator Summer 2026 company co-founded by CEO Prabha Dublish and CTO Aaron Leon, is building an API to retrieve patients’ medical records.
• Atlas, co-founded by CEO Chandra Bhagavatula, a former Ai2 researcher, and Martín Ramírez, is developing AI to run much of a company’s day-to-day operations.
• Reflection Robotics, led by co-founder and CEO Arsalan Mousavian, a former Nvidia robotics research manager, is building AI models that let factory robots learn precise tasks from a single demonstration.
• Eidol, an AI House portfolio company based in Los Angeles, makes software that listens to a live singer and keeps pre-recorded vocal tracks in sync with the performance. Founder and CEO Clayton Janes pitched alongside the company’s chief artist officer, Letters to Cleo singer Kay Hanley.
• Comment.io, co-founded by CEO Jon Gordner, a former Microsoft and Textio product leader, and CTO Max Winderbaum, a longtime Textio engineering leader, is building a tool for people to review and approve work produced by AI agents.
• Axel, led by founder and CEO Stephen Grabowski, is an AI travel agent that says it finds flight and hotel deals below public prices. Grabowski said it has about $30 million in annualized travel bookings.
• Suede, founded by Danielle Dantche, a former merchandising director at Seattle retailer Pipe and Row, automates product listings and purchase orders for independent boutiques. Dantche said it has processed $9.9 million in inventory over the past 90 days.
• Ergoly, co-founded by AJ Gleser and Dan Moore, helps small service firms train and deploy AI workers for each of their clients.
• Finch, founded by former Brightflow AI CEO Jeffrey Priebe, is building AI to plan and run in-person events that companies use to meet potential customers.
  Closing the event, Jacob Colker, AI House co-founder and managing director, made his pitch to the out-of-town investors, building on the themes in his recent GeekWire guest column and a rallying cry he delivered during Seattle Tech Week in July.
  The region is full of “space, science, tech, bio, health, startup builders,” he said, with far more good ideas than local investors can fund. “The reality is there’s just not enough capital in the Pacific Northwest.” That’s where the visitors come in, he said, predicting that they’ll find “great investment opportunities and great deals.”
  Seattle, Colker said, “is worth your time, your investment, your focus, your energy.”