Good Start Labs

Good Start Labs

We build reinforcement learning environments and world-model data from games. And we measure progress you can trust.

Fun is just another word for learning.

We learned a lot from games. Runescape taught us how to type, how markets work, statistics, and how to not get scammed. Games are also wholeheartedly human. We used to play on one of the first Minecraft servers, and someone we met spent four hours on Skype walking us through how to build our first computer. League taught us teamwork under pressure. Mafia taught us about our friends, and about ourselves.

Games can influence how we think of and see the world. They let anyone learn through experience.

AI needs that too.

Right now, aligning AI with human values takes PhDs and papers. But games make it visible. Through play we can show AI how we solve problems and the tools we use. If we do it right, AI can become better for us. Working with us, helping us each achieve our own dreams.

Games taught us. Now they can teach AI.

We believe life's better with play.

Tyler & Alex
Founders, Good Start Labs

Backed by

Lead investors

Inovia Capital
General Catalyst

Games + AI

Tirta Ventures
Ben Feder
Essence VC
Timothy Chen
Siqi Chen
Runway
Greg Kamradt
ARC Prize Foundation (A16Z Scout)
Kelly Clancy
Author: Playing With Reality, Ex-DeepMind

AI

Mark McQuade & Lucas Atkins
Arcee AI
Teresa Grandia
Cohere
Gian Segato
Anthropic
Zach Davidson
Presto
Gorkem Yurtseven
Fal.AI
Ian Barrett
Gensys
Yoland Yan
Comfy UI
Danny Aziz
Spiral
Yunyu Lin
Penrose AI
Paul Feghali
Axion Ray
Quinn Litherland
Revin AI
Natalia Quintero
Every

Content + AI

Weekend Fund
Ryan Hoover & Vedika Jain
Dan Shipper
Every (Sequoia Scout)
Ben Tossell
Ben's Bites / Factory (Sequoia Scout)

Operators

Kanan Rengaraju
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Aditya Naganath
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Varadh Jain
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Sam Felsenthal
Juno Travel
Will England
Walleye Capital
Drew Cousin
Cheers Cash
Mark Grinev
Lazer Consulting
Aanikh Kler
Lazer Consulting
Jack Parkhurst
Chestnut Carbon
John, Nathalie, and Camille Duffy
With Love

Work with us

Whether you train models or build games, we would love to hear what you are working on.

Talk to us