We build tools that put software under your control - Imbue
We build tools that put software under your control
Today, the software and agents in our lives don’t work for us—they work for the company that built them. Closed platforms lock you into their ecosystems, limit what you can do, and serve their incentives over yours.
We're building the alternative: an open agent ecosystem where you can understand, modify, and verify your agents, so they work only in your interest.
Our mission
Make
tech
serve
humans
create, invent, influence, coerce
1technology itself
2the tech industry at large
fully beholden to—
with no ulterior motives
1individual human experience
2collective humanity
Built by people who care, for people who build
We founded Imbue in 2021 to build an AGI future where humans remain at the helm, shaping powerful AI systems rather than being subordinated to them.
Josh showcasing Avalon Nov 2022
Imbue team Feb 2023
Selected advisors and investors
Lead author on GPT-3, Cofounder of Anthropic
Professor of Psychology at UC Berkeley
Tim Hanson
Cofounder of Neuralink
Kyle Vogt
CEO of Cruise Automation
Simon Last
Cofounder of Notion
Drew Houston
CEO of Dropbox
Author of Neural Networks and Deep Learning
Jensen Huang
CEO of NVIDIA
Eric Schmidt
Former CEO of Google
Meet the Imbumans
Marketing
Amy Hsueh
Operations
Engineering
Talent
Marketing
Engineering
Brandi Hagle
Office of the CEO & CTO
Engineering
Chief of Staff
Engineering
Talent
Engineering
Darren Jia
Engineering
Product
Gabriel Guralnick
Engineering
Engineering
Engineering
Research
CTO, Co-founder
CEO, Co-founder
Brand
Engineering
Engineering
Policy & Safety
Engineering
Marketing
Engineering
Talent
Nancy Kwon
Operations
Engineering
Engineering
Engineering
Engineering
Zack Polizzi
Engineering
Work from our office
We open Imbue's San Francisco space to small teams building honest or punk software: tools that are loyal to users, not platforms. Free for the right fit.
Join us
We aim to increase human agency in the world, beginning with how we work: with radical openness, freedom, choice, and play. We’re looking for people who build from first principles, question the status quo, and operate with conviction and care.
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Built by people who care, for people
who build.
Building the alternative.