Here to solve AI’s image problem

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

We’re an applied AI research lab. Our models go past images. They understand design and build finished designs you can edit.

Meet the team

Anusha Ramesh

CEO & Co-founder

Anusha co-founded Coco Labs after she helped launch some of Google’s first image models.

As a product lead, she helped turn Google Brain and DeepMind research into real products. That work included Imagen and Google’s first video generation model for YouTube Shorts. But her love of design started long before generative AI. She’s worked in fashion tech, started her own jewelry line and built a beauty subscription business. Coco Labs brings those two worlds together. It pairs deep AI experience with a lifelong eye for design.

David Zats

CTO & Co-founder

Before Coco Labs, David spent years at Google Brain and YouTube Ads. He turned big AI research into systems that work in the real world.

He built and shipped models across Google products. Then he led an ML team behind YouTube Ads. He also helped bring Google Brain’s early generative research into real products. So he has seen what generative AI can do, and what it still can’t.

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 the digital agency NoHo, later acquired by Ogilvy, and the online drama company XPT. At Dressipi, he led frontend engineering, creative direction and brand. At Coco Labs, he brings an engineer’s discipline and a designer’s eye. He makes sure each new thing the model does is clear and useful. People stay 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 some of Google’s first image models.

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 want AI that understands design in everything a brand makes, from a single post to motion and video. And we want people to stay in charge of the ideas.

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