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Startup radar: Seattle companies apply AI to space imagery, security cameras, marketing automation
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From top left, clockwise: Vinay Ahuja; Chris Jones; Vikash Kodati; and Ian McAllister.
We're back with another quick spotlight on some up-and-coming Seattle-area tech startups.
Our latest cohort spans space, security, marketing, and productivity.
Read on to learn more about the startups and their founders, and check out past startup radar spotlights here. Email us at tips@ to flag other companies and startup news.
Airloom AI
Founded: 2024
The business: Video operations platform for businesses.
Its first product, Airloom Video Search, helps companies search their existing security camera footage using natural language.
The startup has raised cash from angel investors in Seattle, Silicon Valley, and New York City.
Leadership: Founder and CEO Ian McAllister spent more than 12 years at Amazon in various director roles, and was a director of product management at Airbnb.
More recently McAllister was COO at Seattle startup Crowd Cow and a senior director at Uber.
Last month the company hired Emily Danielson as its CTO and founding engineer, and William Price as a software engineer.
Artemis Software Works
Founded: 2025
The business: Longtime Microsoft leader and former Amperity exec Chris Jones is cooking up something secretive in Seattle.
'We're building a tool for builders, for creators, for experts, for anyone who has felt held back by the systems they use and believes there has to be a better way,' Jones wrote on LinkedIn last week.
He's keeping additional details under wraps for now.
Leadership: Jones spent more than 25 years at Microsoft in various corporate vice president roles, overseeing products such as Windows and Outlook.
He joined customer data startup Amperity in 2018 as chief product officer and took over as interim CEO in 2024.
Jones co-founded Artemis with Calvin Tong, a former research engineer at Meta.
Genmark
Founded: 2024
The business: Marketing automation software.
Genmark is building an 'agentic platform' that helps automate end-to-end campaign planning, content creation, analytics, and optimization across multiple channels.
It's targeting companies of all size, from startups to enterprise.
Leadership: Founder and CEO Vinay Ahuja was senior director of engineering for more than four years at Seattle-area recruiting software startup SeekOut.
He previously spent nearly a dozen years at Microsoft in various engineering leadership roles.
Ahuja has a few employees and is bootstrapping Genmark.
Godel Space
Founded: 2024
The business: AI-native geospatial intelligence platform that runs on satellites, drones, and sensors.
Godel wants to help governments, defense teams, and emergency responders turn raw imagery into real-time observation.
Its first use case is post-disaster recovery — helping state and local agencies track debris removal and infrastructure repair.
Leadership: CEO and founder Vikash Kodati spent two decades as an engineering leader, including stints at T-Mobile and Capital One.
