Christine Bagarino
Founder & CEO
Google Launchpad Accelerator for AI/ML startups alumna. Former English Instructor turned Curriculum Developer turned Silicon Valley PM. Launched Japan's first AI English learning chatbot for K12 public schools.
AI native.Social technology.
Founded in Tokyo, Japan
THESIS
Building at the frontier of AI and impact
Some of society’s most important problems remain underserved not because they lack solutions, but because those solutions have traditionally been too costly to deliver at scale.
AI is now changing what can be delivered, to whom, and at what cost.
Social AI was founded to build for that shift, developing AI that can fundamentally change the economics of access while creating outsized value.
Service
WHAT WE DO
Social AI is tackling the problem of education inequality in non-English speaking countries, where English has become a formal education requirement yet many students lack opportunities to use English in their daily lives and affordable, effective learning resources to prepare for standardized testing.
Our AI powered edutainment platform PLAYTEST motivates kids to study and succeed through online gaming. Starting with English language assessment, we’re launching in Japan, with plans to expand globally to 1 billion students across the non-English speaking world.
Company
- Company name
- Social AI Co., Ltd.
- Established
- April 30, 2026
- Representative Director
- Christine Bagarino
- Address
- Higashi 1-chome 29-3, Shibuya, Tokyo 150-0011
- Banking institution
- Mizuho Bank
Founders
Declan Clowry
Co-founder & CTO
Declan leads technology at Social AI, building the AI, speech and game systems that power PLAYTEST. Before co-founding Social AI, he built large-scale data and AI platforms for governments and Fortune 500 companies, and he holds a patent for a word-graph method used in fast text search and language processing.
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