AI · San Francisco, United States
Attention Engineering
Develops a desktop app that continuously observes computer activity, screen, context, apps, and people to create a deep personal context layer and drive proactive agents (briefs, meeting prep, summaries), positioning as an augmented operating system defined by proprietary user context.
Backed by Village Global, Liquid 2 Ventures
- Location
- San Francisco, United States
- Team size
- 1-10
- Founded 2025
- Total raised
- $2.5M
- Seed · last round Nov '25
About Attention Engineering
The company is a Palo Alto-based organization whose mission is to close the gap between how the top 0.001% of people use AI today and how everyone else uses it. It aims to be one of the most important companies of the decade. The company has seven full-time employees based in Palo Alto. Its team includes IOI gold and silver medalists, ex-Citadel Securities and Optiver engineers, and ETH and Cambridge graduates.
Culture & values
The team is small and talent-dense.
Team members come from MIT, CMU, Harvard, and Cambridge, including ex-Citadel and Optiver quants, ML researchers, and IOI medalists.
The work is done in-person in Palo Alto.
The culture is research-aware but shipping-obsessed.
There is a low-ego about scope and a high-ego about quality.
Decisions happen fast because there are no layers and people own the work.
Seven full-time employees work in-person in Palo Alto.
Several people have dropped elite offers to join the company.
You are expected to own infrastructure, agent behavior, or product surface end-to-end within your first month.
The environment is collaborative and kind.
People move fast without external validation.
The company values taking the research frontier seriously while still shipping products.
Funding
$2.5Mtotal raised
- Nov 2025 · Pre-SeedVillage Global, Liquid 2 Ventures$1.3M
- Oct 2025 · Pre-seed$1.3M
- Village Global
- Liquid 2 Ventures
Company at a glance
The team at Attention Engineering
1-10 peopleSee everyone on LinkedIn
Team breakdown
Team Distribution
- Design33%
- Engineering33%
- Leadership33%
Location
Team Composition
3 people- Engineering1 senior2
- Business Development1
Life at Attention Engineering
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