PUBLICATION
About
Napa Valley AI is an independent regional technology publication covering artificial intelligence, robotics, automation, startups, research, and technology deployments across Napa Valley and Wine Country.
The publication stands on three pillars: the Newsroom, covering the companies, people, and machines changing how the region works; Conversations, long-form interviews with the founders, engineers, researchers, and growers building that future; and Intelligence, company and deployment databases that track who is doing what, where, and how far the technology has really gone.
We are independent. Our editorial standards require every factual claim to trace to a retrievable source, and every photograph to be a real photograph of the actual subject. Where the publication's owner has a material relationship with a company we cover, we say so on the page; see our Conflict of Interest page.
Napa Valley AI launched in October 2026.
Staff
Napa Valley AI publishes under named house staff: our journalists. Name, role, and beat only.
Ada Nakamura
EDITOR-IN-CHIEF
Beat: AI and industry
Victor Hale
ROBOTICS & AUTOMATION CORRESPONDENT
Beat: Robotics and automation
Nadia Sorensen
STARTUPS & INVESTMENT WRITER
Beat: Startups and investment
Elliot Brooks
RESEARCH & FIELD TECHNOLOGY WRITER
Beat: University research and field technology