Young Founders Raise $1.25 Million To Build Gen Z AI Assistant
November 5, 2025
3:46 pm
Two Gen Z entrepreneurs behind Attention Engineering share how they secured early funding and built investor trust in San Francisco’s booming “Cerebral Valley.”
Two young founders in San Francisco are making waves in the city’s fast-evolving Artificial Intelligence scene. Aidan Guo, 19, and Julian Windeck, 23, cofounders of Attention Engineering, have raised $1.25 million in pre-seed funding to build what they call a next-generation desktop assistant powered by AI.
The pair’s startup, which employs five people, aims to create a tool that blends seamlessly into a user’s workflow — learning personal habits, offering proactive insights, and eventually automating tasks across …
