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title: Meet the Comcast NBCUniversal LIFT Labs Accelerator Spring 2026 cohort
description: Meet the Spring 2026 cohort of Comcast NBCUniversal LIFT Labs Accelerator, featuring innovative founders revolutionizing AI for real outcomes.
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# [Meet the Comcast NBCUniversal LIFT Labs Accelerator Spring 2026 cohort](https://blog.venturefuel.net/pov/meet-the-comcast-nbcuniversal-lift-labs-accelerator-spring-2026-cohort)

 Written by [VentureFuel Team](https://blog.venturefuel.net/pov/author/venturefuel-team) | May 8, 2026 2:55:36 PM

Comcast NBCUniversal LIFT Labs Accelerator has introduced its Spring 2026 cohort, a group of founders building beyond standalone tools and toward intelligent systems that learn, adapt, and drive real outcomes.

[1Mind](https://www.1mind.com/): AI-powered digital salesperson that engages, converts, and supports customers across the entire buyer journey online, in product, and on calls. Amanda Kahlow, CEO and Founder. 📍San Francisco, CA  
<https://aaru.com/>

[Aaru](https://aaru.com/): Predictive intelligence platform that uses AI to simulate and predict human behavior at scale to help organizations anticipate outcomes and make better decisions. Edward Koh, Co-Founder and President; Cameron Fink, Co-Founder and CEO; John Kessler, Co-Founder and CTO. 📍New York, NY

[Applied Compute:](https://www.appliedcompute.com/) Modular enterprise AI infrastructure that builds agentic workforces trained on proprietary data and institutional knowledge that improve with every interaction. Yash Patil, CEO; Rhythm Garg, CTO; Linden Li, Chief Architect. 📍San Francisco, CA

[Memories.AI](https://memories.ai/): Visual intelligence platform deployed across cloud, edge and hybrid environments using AI to interpret, remember, and query video, turning it into structured, actionable intelligence. Junxiao (Shawn) Shen, Founder; Enmin (Ben) Zhou, Co-Founder. 📍San Francisco, CA

[NEXTGRES](https://nextgres.ai/): A unified data platform for real-time individualization at scale, enabling teams to define audiences, build models, and deploy data-driven customer experiences in hours, without engineering support. Jonah Harris, Co-Founder & CEO; Joe Cotellese, Co-Founder & CPO. 📍Philadelphia, PA

[Thesys, Inc.](https://www.thesys.dev/): A generative UI company that enables AI apps to respond with interactive UI and rich artifacts like dashboards, charts, forms, slides, reports, and more. Rabi Shanker Guha, CEO Co-Founder; Parikshit Deshmukh, Co-Founder. 📍San Francisco, CA

These companies are working across predictive intelligence, agentic workflows, real-time personalization, and generative interfaces, with a focus on making AI operational, scalable, and impactful for complex organizations.

If you're building the next generation of AI, Concast NBCUniversal LIFT Labs wants to hear from you!

[Click here to learn more.](https://lift.comcast.com/accelerator/)

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