Glade

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Build games at the speed of thought

Summer 2023Founded 20233 peopleSan Francisco, CA, USA

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About

Glade is helping everyone build games with AI. GladeCore powers hundreds of studios and developers with locally powered AI NPCs that include TTS, STT, emotional tuning, and RAG. GladeKit is Cursor for Games - an AI agent that lives directly in your game engine and builds games for you.

From their website

as of Jun 7, 2026gladestudio.ai ↗

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Glade is building AI-enhanced game technology, offering GladeKit to turn ideas into playable worlds and GladeCore, a small on-device LLM with built-in multimedia capabilities, aimed at accelerating the creation of AI-powered games and features.

GladeKit is an AI agent designed to turn ideas into playable worlds, built for makers at all levels to reduce complexity and speed up development. GladeCore is a sub-1 GB LLM with built-in text-to-speech, speech-to-text, emotional tuning, and retrieval-augmented generation (RAG) to power dynamic AI NPCs, companions, and other game features directly within games, with on-device operation.

Who it’s for: Game developers and makers looking to infuse AI into gameplay, ranging from individual developers to teams building AI-driven worlds and NPCs.

Features

AI agent for turning ideas into playable worlds
On-device LLM with sub-1 GB footprint
Built-in text-to-speech and speech-to-text
Emotional tuning for NPCs
RAG (retrieval-augmented generation) capabilities
AI NPCs and dynamic game features integration
Engine-level integration to directly modify projects

Product launches and active community channels (GladeKit launch, team and investor-backed messaging) indicating early traction and development activity

Founders · 1

Daniel FangFounder

Goldman Sachs

Daniel is the CEO and co-founder of Glade. He has years of experience working in banking, strategic finance, and venture capital. He has previously worked at Navan, Ocean Tomo, and Goldman Sachs.

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Launch

Launched on Y Combinator · Jun 2023

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We helps companies build, manage, and visualize their financial plan in real-time

Glade launches a real-time, AI-powered financial planning platform that fully integrates with apps like Netsuite, Workday, and Snowflake to automate data flows into Google Sheets and Excel models. It targets enterprises and scaling companies, offering a centralized source of truth for financial data to speed planning, improve reporting, and align leaders.

From the original launch (Jun 2023) — may be outdated.