About Good Start Labs

Good Start Labs aligns AI through entertainment. The company builds gaming environments and partners with popular existing games so that millions of players naturally help evaluate and train AI models just by playing. Public leaderboards surface which models best handle both subjective human skills (e.g. humour, preference) and objective ones (e.g. strategy, planning). Over time, this helps create AI tools that are better aligned with human tastes and values.

Company Information

Headquarters: Brooklyn NY

Global Offices: Toronto ON

Founded in: 2025

Investment Information

Investment year: 2025

Inovia Team Members: Steve Woods Noah Nagle

Good Start Labs' Journey with Inovia

Aug. 2025

[Noah] meets [Alex and Tyler] after they built out AI Diplomacy and started working with major labs.

Oct. 2025

Inovia co-leads the company’s pre-seed round.