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Zach Yadegari
Zach Yadegari Jan 13

Cal AI’s Velocity: How a High Schooler Built a $12M ARR Rocket Ship

How a 17-year-old student used computer vision and aggressive viral marketing to build a $10M+ ARR nutrition app in between classes.

๐Ÿ“ˆ Explosive (0 to $1M ARR in <30 days) ๐Ÿ’ฐ Undisclosed
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Tech
Arushi Jain
Arushi Jain Jan 12

Diamonds for the New Generation: How Arushi Jain Is Re-Engineering Luxury with EMORI

Arushi Jain built EMORI to disrupt the legacy diamond industry by merging lab-grown technology with modern fashion-tech retail.

๐Ÿ“ˆ 200% YoY (Post-Shark Tank) ๐Ÿ’ฐ Undisclosed
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Tech
Shivali Goyal & Pritish Gupta
Shivali Goyal & Pritish Gupta Jan 12

Trupeerโ€™s $3M Bet on the “No-Edit” Video: How Shivali Goyal and Pritish Gupta are Automating Enterprise Knowledge

Shivali Goyal and Pritish Gupta raised $3M to eliminate the "editing" bottleneck in enterprise video, transforming raw screen captures into polished tutorials.

๐Ÿ“ˆ Undisclosed ๐Ÿ’ฐ Undisclosed
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Tech
Nathaneo Johnson
Nathaneo Johnson Jan 12

From Yale Dorms to $3.1M: How Nathaneo Johnson is Re-engineering Social Mentorship

Yale student Nathaneo Johnson raised $3.1M to build Series, an AI-powered social platform designed to dismantle elite gatekeeping and automate professional mentorship.

๐Ÿ“ˆ Undisclosed ๐Ÿ’ฐ Undisclosed
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Tech
Shraman Kar & Shreyas Kar
Shraman Kar & Shreyas Kar Jan 12

From Stanford Dorms to $4M: How the Kar Brothers are Fixing the AI Video “Hallucination” Gap

Two teenage brothers dropped out of Stanford to build a $4.1M-backed AI engine that creates technically accurate 30-minute explainer videos at 45x lower cost than Sora.

๐Ÿ“ˆ 39,150% (growth in launch month) ๐Ÿ’ฐ Undisclosed
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Edutainment
Varun Duggirala & Pooja Jauhar
Varun Duggirala & Pooja Jauhar Jan 12

Emomeeโ€™s โ‚น2 Crore Bet on Emotional Intelligence: How Varun Duggirala and Pooja Jauhar are Gamifying Childhood

How Varun Duggirala and Pooja Jauhar secured โ‚น2 crore on Shark Tank India to build a storytelling universe focused on children's emotional intelligence.

๐Ÿ“ˆ Accelerated post-Shark Tank ๐Ÿ’ฐ Undisclosed
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Financial Technology
Jin Kim
Jin Kim Jan 12

LinqAlphaโ€™s $6.6M Bet on the “Institutional Alpha” Engine: How Jin Kim is Automating the Hedge Fund Analyst

Jin Kim and a team of Forbes Under 30 alums raised $6.6M to build an AI-driven research engine that processes 60,000 companies in 20 languages for hedge funds.

๐Ÿ“ˆ Undisclosed ๐Ÿ’ฐ Undisclosed
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