Living Forever — AI | Selected to Exhibit and Pitch at Startup Grind 2026 in Silicon Valley
In one generation, you'll be forgotten. Your voice, your stories, your personality — gone. Your grandchildren may know your name, but your great-grandchildren almost certainly won't. That's not a guess. That's how family memory works. Every generation loses a little more until there's nothing left but a name on a document no one reads.
Living Forever — AI was built to change that. And this April, we're bringing that mission to one of the biggest startup stages in the world.
We're proud to announce that Living Forever — AI has been accepted to exhibit and pitch at the Startup Grind Global Conference 2026 in Silicon Valley, April 27–29. Out of thousands of applicants, we were selected as one of the top 150 startups to showcase our technology to over 5,000 attendees and more than 500 venture capital investors from firms like Sequoia, Bessemer Venture Partners, Menlo Ventures, and many others.
What Living Forever — AI Does
We capture living people as interactive AI video avatars — real voice, real personality, real stories, real video — so their families can have actual conversations with them for generations to come. Not a chatbot. Not a digital scrapbook. A living, breathing representation of who you are that your grandchildren, great-grandchildren, and beyond can sit down and talk to.
Think about what Ancestry.com has already proven. Three million people pay every month to search through old photos and dead documents. Over a billion searches a month — all to feel connected to family members they never met. Now imagine those photos and documents could talk back. That's what we're building.
Our platform uses a combination of structured personality capture, voice cloning, and AI video avatar generation to preserve the people you love — while they're still here to participate. This isn't about grief or loss. This is about capturing life while it's happening and making sure it never disappears.
Why Startup Grind Matters for Our Mission
Startup Grind is the world's largest startup community, with chapters in over 120 countries and a conference that brings together the people who are building what's next. Their annual Silicon Valley conference is where investors, founders, and technologists come together to find the companies that are creating new categories — not just iterating on old ones.
That's exactly what Living Forever — AI is doing. We're not improving an existing product. We're creating a category that didn't exist before: interactive family legacy. The technology to do this only became possible in the last 18 months, and we're the first and only company applying it specifically to preserving family stories for future generations.
Being selected for the exhibition and pitch program means we'll have our own booth on the conference floor, a guaranteed pitch slot on stage to investors who are specifically curated for our industry, and access to private events and investor meetings throughout the three-day event. Last year, exhibiting startups booked over 600 meetings with investors on-site. Since 2020, Startup Grind's top exhibitors have raised over $1.5 billion in funding — and one company announced a $1.2 billion SPAC merger just five months after the conference.
What We're Building Toward
Living Forever — AI is currently in development with our V1 launch targeted for May 15, 2026 with our first 100 users. We have a growing waitlist and a technical pilot that has successfully demonstrated our core technology: a retrieval-grounded conversational AI that ensures every avatar only speaks from verified, personal content — never hallucinated, never generic.
Genealogy enthusiasts and family historians are our entry point. It's a natural fit — these are people who already spend time and money preserving family connections. According to a 2024 Kings Research report, the genealogy and family history preservation market is valued at $6.6 billion and projected to reach $16.6 billion by 2032. But the applications go far beyond that. Funeral pre-planning, assisted living and memory care facilities, and enterprise partnerships represent massive distribution channels where interactive legacy preservation solves real problems for real families.
We are currently raising our seed round to bring V1 to market, convert our beta waitlist into paying families, and secure our first distribution partnerships. Startup Grind will be a meaningful milestone as we expand investor and partner conversations in Silicon Valley.
The Bigger Picture
Over $31 million has been invested in the "digital people" technology category in the last two years. Every dollar of it went to companies targeting creators, coaches, or professionals. Not a single funded company is applying this technology to families. The best-funded player in the space, backed by Sequoia Capital, publicly stated they deliberately avoided the family market. Another raised $10 million, started in legacy, and then abandoned it entirely to chase the creator economy.
They left the door wide open. We walked through it.
The Bottom Line
Living Forever — AI is heading to Startup Grind 2026 to show Silicon Valley that the people we love shouldn't be forgotten in a generation. If you're an investor, a potential partner, or someone who believes that preserving family stories for future generations matters, we'd love to connect with you this April. Visit us at our booth, catch our pitch, or reach out directly.
Because the people you love have stories worth keeping. And those stories deserve more than a box in the attic.
Learn more at Living Forever — AI.
About the Author
Brian Will is the Founder and CEO of Living Forever — AI. A serial entrepreneur with 10 companies and 4 successful exits, Brian is a 2x Wall Street Journal bestselling author and a former City Council member. He is the founder of Brian Will Media and Living Forever — AI, where he is building the future of interactive family legacy — preserving memory, voice, and perspective through AI.