
Ex-Twitch CEO Emmett Shear Founding AI Startup Backed by Andreessen Horowitz
In a significant development in the world of artificial intelligence, TechCrunch has learned that Emmett Shear, the former CEO of Twitch, is launching a new AI startup called Stem AI. The startup is currently in stealth mode, but public documents reveal that it was incorporated in June 2023 and filed for a trademark in August 2023.
The Founding Team
Stem AI’s founding team includes Emmett Shear as the CEO, along with Adam Goldstein, who is best known for founding travel search and booking site Hipmunk. After selling Hipmunk to Concur in 2016, Goldstein became a visiting partner at Y Combinator and founded an incubator called Astonishing Labs to back bio
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