Here to solve AI’s image problem

At Coco AI, we believe design should be as fundamental to AI as text and images are today.

As an applied AI research lab, we’re building the models to get us there, taking visual AI beyond image generation to understanding and constructing finished designs.

Meet the team

Anusha Ramesh

CEO & Co-founder

Anusha founded Coco after helping turn some of Google Brain and DeepMind’s earliest generative image and video research into real-life products.

That work included launching Imagen and Google’s first video generation model for YouTube Shorts. But her fascination with visual creativity started long before generative AI. She’s worked in fashion tech, started her own jewelry line, and built a beauty subscription business. Coco brings those worlds together: deep AI experience and a lifelong eye for design.

David Zats

CTO & Co-founder

Before Coco, David spent years at Google Brain and YouTube turning ambitious AI research into systems that could perform in the real world, at enormous scale.

He developed and deployed models across Google products before leading applied ML for YouTube Ads, with a focus on model quality, efficiency and performance. He also helped bring some of Google Brain’s early generative research into production, giving him firsthand experience of both the breakthroughs behind today’s generative AI and the limitations still left to solve.

Rob Bevan

Founding Engineer

Rob combines hands-on engineering with creative direction, drawing on a career that spans BAFTA-winning interactive storytelling, fashion personalization and tools for designers.

He co-founded digital agency NoHo, later acquired by Ogilvy, and online drama company XPT. At Dressipi, he led frontend engineering, creative direction and brand. At Coco, he brings an engineer’s discipline and a designer’s eye to making new capabilities clear, expressive and useful, while keeping people in control of the work.

Expertise across disciplines

Our founding team brings together deep experience across generative AI, production machine learning and creative technology.

Pioneers in generative AI

Helped launch Google’s first-ever image generation model, Imagen.

Production AI & systems experts

Built and deployed high-quality ML systems at Google Brain, DeepMind and YouTube.

Designers & creative technologists

Experience across fashion tech, product design and BAFTA-winning digital work.

A future where AI understands design

We’re building intelligence that carries creative intent across every expression of a brand — from static design to motion and video — while preserving the human creativity that makes great work distinct.

Backed by investors and industry leaders

Supported by leading investors and many Googlers who share our belief that design is the next frontier for visual intelligence.

JEFF DEAN