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Frederick Kim Put the Dream Machine in a Spreadsheet
Before helping build Handshake AI, Frederick Kim turned the humble spreadsheet into a studio for exploring generative images. His quiet through-line is simple: powerful systems become useful when people can see what they are doing.
Leonardo AI Put the Whole Model Aisle in One Cart
The Sydney-born creative suite lets you shop Lucid, GPT Image, Nano Banana, FLUX, Kling, Veo and more without rebuilding your workflow. The catch is learning which model deserves your tokens.
The Image Machine That Learned to Spell
Most image generators can paint a dream and still misspell the shop sign. Ideogram built its business around that stubborn last mile - then opened the weights and handed designers a ruler.
Krea Is the Art Department With 64 Brains
The AI model carousel never stops spinning. Krea turns it into one roomy studio where designers can sketch, generate, edit, upscale and animate without collecting another dozen tabs.
Midjourney Still Has Better Taste Than You
V8.2 turns four seconds and a sentence into a wall of beautiful maybes. The trick is knowing when to trust its taste - and when to take the wheel.
Cheryl Liu
Cheryl Liu is the founder and CEO of Raspberry AI, a New York generative-AI platform that turns fashion designers' sketches into retail-ready, photo-realistic images, technical drawings, and CAD files in minutes instead of months. A former KKR retail private-equity analyst who later built product and machine-learning teams at Amazon and DoorDash, she spotted the opening for fashion-specific image generation the moment DALL-E and Stable Diffusion arrived in late 2022. Raspberry AI now serves brands including Under Armour, J.Crew, Tapestry, and Li & Fung, raised a $24M Series A led by Andreessen Horowitz, and was named one of CB Insights' 2026 AI 100 as the only creative-AI application on the list.
OpenArt AI
OpenArt AI is a San Francisco-based AI creative platform founded in 2022 by former Google engineers Coco Mao and John Qiao. The platform aggregates 100+ AI models - including DALL-E 3, Stable Diffusion, Google Veo 3, Kling, and Sora - under a single interface, letting creators generate images, videos, music, and 3D environments without switching tools. From hobbyists making tabletop RPG art to agencies building brand-consistent content at scale, OpenArt serves roughly 8 million monthly active users. The company reached $70M+ ARR in 2025 with a 20-person team, then closed a $30M Series A led by Canaan Partners in January 2026.
Victor Perez
Víctor Pérez is the co-founder and CEO of Krea.ai, a San Francisco-based generative AI platform that has raised $83 million and grown to 20 million users. A Barcelona native who studied audiovisual systems engineering at UPF, Perez received the prestigious laCaixa Fellowship (a scholarship from the King of Spain) to pursue graduate studies at Cornell University — but spent just one day on campus before convincing his co-founder Diego Rodriguez to drop out and build Krea instead. A researcher whose work has appeared at NeurIPS and ICCV, and a graffiti artist at heart, Perez leads a company whose mission is to put creators in control of AI — not replace them with it.