AI/Machine Learning

Annie Liao’s Build Club has launched an AI accelerator to tackle enterprise adoption in just 4 weeks

- December 17, 2025 2 MIN READ

Build Club, the US-based, Australian-born AI learning community, has launched Solaris AI, an AI accelerator for companies to reduce the time taken for organisational AI transformation from a year to a month. Founder Annie Liao said Solaris AI delivers fundamentally different approach to enterprise AI adoption, eschewing training programs that rely on generic use cases requiring… Read more »

Annie Liao
AI/Machine Learning

Australian startup Build Club teams up with AI unicorn Lovable to launch their Learning Academy

- July 29, 2025 2 MIN READ

One of the world’s fastest growing AI startups, Swedish “vibe-coding” unicorn Lovable, with A$2.75 billion valuation just eight months after its launch, has teamed up with Australia’s Build Club to launch Lovable Learning Academy. It’s a platform of Lovable’s hands‑on curriculum and designed to help anyone go from zero to launching a live vibe-coded app,… Read more »

Annie Liao
Funding

AI edtech Build Club prompts $1.75m pre-Seed

- October 11, 2024 2 MIN READ

AI-focused e-learning platform Build Club has raised $1.75 million in a pre-Seed round led by Airtree and Blackbird. Also hitting the PayTo button for the round were Archangel Ventures, Co Ventures and Treble VC, and angel investors including Startmate’s Small Bets Fund, Curious Thing founder Sam Zheng, Superpower’s Max Marchione, Eric Chan from Aura Ventures… Read more »

Accelerator

Here are the 15 amazing AI startups in Build Club’s first cohort – and the winners heading to San Francisco to pitch to US VCs

- June 22, 2024 6 MIN READ

If Build Club founder Annie Liao needs a motto, it should be “Move fast and make things”. This week, the 15 artificial intelligence (AI) startups accepted into the inaugural Build Club Accelerator graduated after an intensive six weeks, culminating in Monday’s Demo Day. Liao set out to create an accelerator program backing technical AI engineers… Read more »