20-YO from Mumbai, who once wanted to go to IIT, raises Rs 26 Cr seed funding for his AI Startup

Dhravya Shah, a 20-year-old from Mumbai, has captured global attention by raising $3 million for his AI startup, Supermemory, a platform designed to enhance memory capabilities for AI systems. 

Shah, who gave up his IIT aspirations to study in the U.S., described the venture as “my life’s work” in a recent tweet, sharing that hundreds of enterprises and developers are already building applications on Supermemory.

20-Year-Old Gets His AI Startup Funded

Shah began developing technology projects in his teens, including a bot that converted tweets into formatted screenshots, which was acquired by Hypefury. 

Encouraged by early success, he moved to the U.S. for higher studies at Arizona State University and later interned at Cloudflare, gaining experience in AI and infrastructure.

Reflecting on the origins of Supermemory, Shah tweeted, 

“Memory is one of the hardest challenges in AI right now. I realized this when building the first version of Supermemory, which was merely a bookmarking and notetaking tool I was building as a side-project in dorm two years ago when I was 18.”

The startup has now secured $3 million in seed funding led by Susa Ventures, Browder Capital, and SF1.vc, with notable investors including Cloudflare CTO Dane Knecht, Google AI chief Jeff Dean, and executives from OpenAI, Meta, and Google.

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About Supermemory

Supermemory is designed to help AI systems retain and recall information from unstructured data. 

Shah explained, “There weren’t many good solutions, so I built my own vector DB, content parsers and an engine that works like the human brain.”

The platform supports text, emails, files, and app data, and integrates with Google Drive, OneDrive, and Notion. Developers can also build on top of Supermemory using its universal memory API.

 According to Shah, the tool has become one of the best and fastest memory products in the world and the startup is hiring across engineering, research, and product roles.

Dhravya Shah’s journey from a middle-class student in Mumbai to a funded AI entrepreneur in San Francisco highlights the growing impact of young innovators in AI. 

By solving one of the field’s most difficult challenges, Shah has built a platform that is already being used by hundreds of enterprises, marking a significant step in AI memory development.

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