Shaping Tomorrow's Innovations, Today
Empowering business models with trusted AI, expert infrastructure knowledge, and global strategic partnerships to ensure and scale critical infrastructure for rapid expansion of AI.
Mission
Autonomous systems and AI are transforming the globe and creating a great shift in human capability. GenLab sees an incredible opportunity to build companies that enable the growth of AI. Enterprises desire to adopt, and integrate these tools requires an entire rebuild of our modern systems.
Data will become an anchor point, and governance and control will be required to properly take advantage of the competitive edge that AI promises. GenLab will be building incredible companies, to take advantage of this growth and focus on sustainable business models to deliver real value creation in this new era of Artificial Intelligence.
Portfolio
Leela AI provides real-time visual insights for manufacturers, boosting productivity, safety, and efficiency.
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Kubiya AI automates DevOps tasks with AI-powered assistants, enhancing productivity through simple chats.
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Psionic’s technology improves performance, safety, and precision in the most challenging environments on Earth and in Space
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Coalition for
Secure AI
GenLab Venture Studio, a founding member of the Coalition for Secure AI, is committed to enhancing threat mitigation strategies and driving security advancements that can be shared across the AI ecosystem to build trust in secure AI systems.
Innovation Through Collaboration
Meet the visionaries and experts driving GenLab's mission to revolutionize critical infrastructure through AI and strategic partnerships.
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Daniel Riedel
Managing Partner & CEO
Daniel Riedel is an entrepreneur with a strong track record of founding multiple companies in the media and technology sectors. He has extensive experience in building large-scale, secure technologies and businesses, with a broad background in engineering, operations, security, analytics, and product development. He is particularly passionate about the intersection of technology and user experience, creating engaging solutions that blend excellent UX/UI design with media and entertainment, all while ensuring security and privacy are maintained.
Brady Forrest
Managing Partner
Brady Forrest is the co-founder and Managing Partner of GenLab Venture Studio, where he leads efforts to build companies in the Critical Infrastructure sector. He is also the founder of Ignite Talks, a global talk series featuring five-minute presentations using a dynamic format of 20 slides that auto-advance every 15 seconds. Ignite has seen over 10,000 talks delivered and is used by organizations like the Gates Foundation, World Bank, Amazon, and Google.
Additionally, Brady serves as a director at two non-profits: Community Arts Stabilization Trust (CAST), which supports art organizations in the San Francisco Bay Area, and Ideas Beyond Borders (IBB), which promotes access to books and information in the Arabic world. He is a Kauffman Fellow, a Loomis Council member at the Stimson Center, and an active angel investor.
Sarah Novotny
CTO & Partner
As CTO and partner of GenLab Studio, Sarah leverages her experience in leading cross-industry open-source collaborations as a critical component of building secure, scalable products within critical infrastructure. An Open Source champion, Sarah has lead governance and contributor experience work in projects such as Kubernetes, OpenTelemetry, NGINX and MySQL.
Sarah’s 20+ years of expertise extends beyond technical realms to encompass the human and social sides of technology.
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