Pranjali Awasthi is an Indian entrepreneur, known for raising $450,000 (₹3.7 crore) for her artificial intelligence startup called Delv.AI at the age of 16.
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Pranjali Awasthi was born in the year 2007 (age 16 years; as of 2023) in India. Her family moved to Florida, USA when she was 11 years old. When she was just 7 years old, she started learning coding. At the age of 13, he began his internship in the university research laboratories at Florida International University. They simultaneously attended high school, Doral Academy Charter High School, and majored in linear algebra and calculus, while working on machine learning projects.
Physical Appearance
Hair Color: Black
Eye colour: black
Family
parents and siblings
His father is an engineer.
husband and children
Pranjali is not married.
livelihood
Pranjali Awasthi started her company Delv.AI while interning in university research laboratories. He was accepted into the September 2021 HF0 Residency where he launched his product. His responsibilities included conducting searches, data extraction, and preparing literature reviews. In 2020, when OpenAI unveiled its ChatGPT-3 beta, it recognized its potential to promote and enhance research data extraction and summarization. Although Delv.AI was in its budding stage, she was determined to establish a company that would use machine learning to extract data and remove data silos. His time at HF0 came to an end when he secured seed investment from On Deck and Village Global. Seed funding received in early 2022 enabled them to recruit their first engineer and begin work on a minimum-viable product. Throughout her fellowship, she was able to build strong relationships within the AI community. Additionally, due to her winning Product Hunt launch, these connections proved invaluable during subsequent fundraising efforts. She managed to raise $450,000 from a combination of funds and angel investors such as Lucy Guo and Village Global, resulting in a valuation of around $12 million.
Pranjali’s passion for social entrepreneurship began during her childhood in India. While visiting her farmer grandfather, she would watch him mentor village children on developing their artisan skills. She remembers the handmade fashion items she created as both chic and modern. Recognizing their global appeal, he planned to sell them without the interference of middlemen, who often took a large cut, leaving the creators with little money to earn. This inspired him to set up ‘Indic Valley’, an online portal showcasing these artistic creations. Pranjali’s ambition is to empower these artisans by providing them ownership and control over their work on this platform.
Pranjali interacting with artisans in India
Despite challenges heightened by the pandemic, they successfully secured external investment. With these funds, she was able to assemble an initial group of about 30 artisans for her site, streamline the company’s structure, and straighten out logistics. Indic Valley offers a range of eco-friendly, handmade wooden bangles, shawls, shoes and more, originating from the heart of the villages of India.
Awards and achievements
Associate Member – Released by Mesasan Foundation (June 2023)
IEEE Rising Star 2022 – Released by the IEEE Canada Young Professionals Committee (November 2021)
HF0 Fellow – Released by Backend Capital (September 2021)
AIME Qualifier – Released by the Mathematics Association of America (February 2021)
Favorite
- Indian Snacks: Parle G, Momos
Facts/General Knowledge
- Pranjali always looked up to her father, who believed that computer science should be included in the school curriculum along with other fundamental subjects. His passion for the subject inspired him to get into coding at the young age of seven.
- During the Covid pandemic, the shift to virtual learning in schools enabled him to pursue internships. He devoted about 20 hours weekly to the Schwartz Center for Computational Neuroscience, part of the Institute for Neural Computation at the University of California San Diego.
- During her research internship, Pranjali became aware of the increasing difficulty in identifying specific information on search engines. This realization inspired him to think about how AI could overcome this challenge. This eventually gave birth to his company, Delv.AI. Delv.AI’s primary mission is to help researchers easily find specific details among the vast universe of online content.
- In 2021, Pranjali attended Miami Hack Week where she met Lucy Guo and Dave Fontenot, both partners at Backend Capital. The duo also founded HF0 Residency, a live-in startup accelerator based in San Francisco and Miami.
Pranjali at HackerFellows
- She secured a spot on their September 12-week program in exchange for a minority stake in her future venture. After taking the advice of his parents, who believed in the invaluable networking opportunity, he took a leave of absence from high school. Residency covered her daily commute home via Uber.
- One of the highlights of his residency was the launch of the beta version of Delv.AI on Product Hunt, which also coincided with his 15th birthday. Their product became the third most sought after product of that day.
- His Indian heritage meant that education was a family priority. Although she considered pursuing a GED, she succeeded by completing her high school credits online. She completed her school in June 2023. Her parents supported her in her decision to leave college for now to focus on her business.
- Pranjali has been a spokesperson for several events such as Rising 2021: Women in AI, where she spoke about inspiring youth to pursue careers in AI. He also spoke at the AI Summit in New York where he spoke on ML in Modern Healthcare.
A hoarding of Pranjali as spokesperson
- She said she might consider going to college later to learn new professional skills, such as law and psychology.
- She has remarkable test scores in competitive exams. He got a score of 35 on his ACT in 2022 and a score of 5 on AP Calculus BC, Computer Science, and Physics in 2021.
- His batch mates and team members call him ‘P’.
- His hobbies include playing piano and badminton.
- Inspired by Prajali, her old high school opened an entire building for AI enthusiasts to learn blockchain and cyber security courses.
Pranjali’s tweet about her old high school
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