# Amir Sadeghian

> Amir Sadeghian is the Co-Founder and CEO of Astrocade, the world's first agentic AI game creation platform that lets anyone build fully playable games from a text prompt. A Stanford PhD in Computer Vision and AI, Sadeghian previously co-founded Aibee Inc. - a Sequoia-backed AI unicorn - before teaming up with his brother Ali Sadeghian and AI pioneer Fei-Fei Li to build Astrocade. The platform has amassed 20 million users and 140 million monthly game plays across 80 countries within 8 months of launch, backed by $68M from Sequoia Capital, Sea, NVIDIA, Google, and Eric Schmidt.

- **Role:** Co-Founder & CEO at Astrocade
- **Organizations:** Astrocade, Aibee Inc., Stanford University
- **Nationality:** American
- **Education:** PhD, Computer Vision, Robotics, and AI, Stanford University, Research Internship, EPFL (Swiss Federal Institute of Technology)
- **Known for:** Co-founded Astrocade, the world's first agentic AI game creation platform with 20M+ users in 8 months, Raised $68M total funding from Sequoia Capital, Sea, NVIDIA, Google AI Futures Fund, and Eric Schmidt, Co-founded Aibee Inc. (Founding Director of AI), which raised $200M and reached unicorn valuation

## Career timeline

- **~2013** — Began PhD at Stanford University in Computer Vision, Robotics, and AI at the Computational Vision and Geometry Lab
- **2018** — Completed PhD at Stanford; selected as one of 10 Greylock X Fellows
- **2018** — Research internships at EPFL and Nokia during PhD years
- **2018** — Co-founded Aibee Inc. as Founding Director of R&D/AI; company backed by Sequoia Capital, raised $200M, reached unicorn valuation in VR/AR/tracking AI
- **2019** — Published SoPhie (CVPR 2019) and Social-BiGAT (NeurIPS 2019) - landmark papers on pedestrian trajectory prediction
- **2020** — Published JRMOT multi-object tracker (IROS 2020)
- **2022** — Co-founded Astrocade (initially Astroblox) with brother Ali Sadeghian and Fei-Fei Li
- **2024** — Raised $12M seed round led by AME Cloud Ventures and NVIDIA Ventures, with Eric Schmidt and others as angels
- **2025** — Launched Astrocade 2.0 - agentic AI game creation platform; platform surpasses 20M users and 140M monthly game plays
- **2026-05** — Raised $56M in combined Series A (led by Sea) and Series B (led by Sequoia Capital), bringing total funding to $68M

## Achievements

- Co-founded Astrocade, the world's first agentic AI game creation platform with 20M+ users in 8 months
- Raised $68M total funding from Sequoia Capital, Sea, NVIDIA, Google AI Futures Fund, and Eric Schmidt
- Co-founded Aibee Inc. (Founding Director of AI), which raised $200M and reached unicorn valuation
- Stanford PhD in Computer Vision, Robotics, and AI (2018)
- Selected as one of 10 Greylock X Fellows (2018)
- 26 research publications with 9,682+ citations; cited by 14,000+ researchers
- Named Best Gaming Platform at GameChangers 2024 (Astrocade)
- Published landmark AI papers at CVPR 2019, NeurIPS 2019, IROS 2020, and IEEE PAMI 2023
- Co-invented Generalized Intersection Over Union (GIoU) - now a widely used metric in object detection

## Latest updates

- **2026-05** — Astrocade raises $56M in combined Series A (Sea) and Series B (Sequoia Capital), bringing total funding to $68M. Platform launches $10M creator fund.
- **2025-07** — Astrocade 2.0 launches with agentic AI game creation, featuring multiple specialized AI agents working collaboratively on game development.
- **2025** — Platform reaches 20M+ total engaged users, 5M monthly active users, 140M monthly game plays, and 75,000+ games created across 80 countries.
- **2024-06** — Raised $12M seed round led by AME Cloud Ventures and NVIDIA Ventures, with angels including Eric Schmidt, Jerry Yang, Niccolo De Masi, John Riccitiello, and David Baszucki.

## Links

- Website: https://www.sadeghian.us/
- LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/amirabs/
- Twitter/X: https://x.com/_amirabs
- GitHub: https://github.com/amirsadeghian

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Last updated: 2026-05-23