Ushering in the next generation of artificial intelligence

Rain was founded by a small group of passionate individuals outside of Silicon Valley who have brought together world class investors and industry leading technologists to achieve their goal of brain-scale artificial intelligence.

Our team

We are a multidisciplinary team spanning materials science, electrical engineering, data science, neuroscience, and other diverse fields.

Jack Kendall

CTO and Co-founder

Gordon Wilson

CEO and Co-founder

Juan Nino

Chief Scientific Advisor and Co-founder

Alek Conklin

Junior Fabrication Engineer

Nikita Gaur

Device Fabrication Engineer

Kalpana Manickavasagam

Principal Chip Architect

Ross Pantone

Data Scientist

William Passo

Head of Operations

Ilya Rumyantsev

Principal Scientist

Our investors

Here are some of the people supporting our endeavors.

Y Combinator S18

Airbus Ventures

Sam Altman CEO, OpenAI

Daniel Gross Founder, Pioneer

Liquid 2 Ventures

Loup Ventures

Board members

Our board brings decades of experience in the semiconductor and cloud computing industries.

Jackson Hu, PhD Former CEO of SiRF Technology, former CEO and Chairman of UMC.

Mike Miller, PhD General Partner at Liquid 2 Ventures, former founder of Cloudant.

Blog

01.

Building Blocks of a Brain-Inspired Computer

Peer-reviewed journals, 2019

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02.

Conversation with Loup Ventures

Podcasts, 2019

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03.

Inside AI: Live! Presentation

Videos, 2019

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04.

Building smarter, scalable hardware for artificial intelligence.

Peer-reviewed journals, 2019

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05.

How AI Processors Can Help us Understand the Brain

Videos, 2019

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