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Wilson Spearman
Wilson Spearman is the co-founder and CEO of CreativeMode (YC S24), an AI-powered, no-code platform that lets anyone build Minecraft mods without writing code. An MIT computer science graduate who worked on AI cloud infrastructure at Crusoe and procurement tools at Settle, he now leads a small San Francisco team that has helped players create hundreds of thousands of mods - by the company's account, more Minecraft mods in nine months than in the game's previous seventeen years combined. When he is not shipping software, he is an aspiring ski mountaineer chasing alpine glacier routes.
DreamCraft Entertainment, Inc.
DreamCraft Entertainment is a San Mateo-based startup building a code-free game creation platform that lets anyone design, publish, and monetize video games without programming or art skills. Its game editor handles the heavy technical lifting - multiplayer, cross-platform support, performance and memory management - while bundling a library of casual and cartoon-style art assets, so creators can focus on gameplay. Founded in 2018 by Tianyin Zhang and Veronica Yao and backed by Y Combinator, Tencent, Makers Fund and March Gaming, the company raised a $10M Series A in 2021 to democratize game development.
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.