← All companies

AthenaHQ

ActiveHiring

Be the Answer in AI Search - AI SEO across SEO, GEO & AEO

W25·Winter 2025·B2B·San Francisco, CA, USA·Team of 12·Founded 2025

About

Make sure your brand doesn’t get left behind as search shifts from traditional SEO to generative AI search. AthenaHQ is an AI SEO platform for GEO (Generative Engine Optimization) and AEO (Answer Engine Optimization), helping brands show up in AI-generated answers across ChatGPT, Perplexity, Claude, Gemini, and more. AI search is expected to overtake traditional search within the next few years. AthenaHQ fills the gap with a system to measure visibility, identify what AI engines cite and recommend, and help your team improve content and brand presence for AI-first discovery. Team of former product manager on Google Search's information acquisition team, Deepmind Generative Media team, and ChatGPT superusers.

Founders

  • Andrew Yan· Co-Founder, CEO

    Co-founder AthenaHQ--helping brands get discovered on ChatGPT. Formerly @googlesearch @deepmind @usarmylab @columbia In previous life, played in the band that inspired the Oscar-winning movie Whiplash.

  • Alan Yao· Co-Founder

    Co-founder & CTO at AthenaHQ, formerly a jazz trombonist

Product launches · 1 launch

Change history · none recorded

No changes recorded yet. Subsequent syncs will populate this timeline as fields drift.