At just 20, Mumbai-born Dhravya Shah has raised $3 million for his Silicon Valley-based startup, Supermemory. Once an IIT aspirant, he chose a different path, one that’s now earned backing from leaders at Google, OpenAI, DeepMind, and Meta.
His achievements don’t end there. Dhravya recently received the prestigious O-1 visa, granted to individuals with extraordinary ability, making him one of the youngest Indians ever to earn it.
His journey began during the Covid lockdown, when he convinced his parents to buy him a laptop. Soon after, he built and sold a Twitter automation tool that caught the attention of Hypefury, a popular social media platform. That success inspired him to drop out of college and move to Arizona State University, where he challenged himself to build one project every week for 40 weeks.
Those experiments became the foundation for Supermemory, an AI platform that helps applications remember and understand context across long-term interactions , something most AI tools can’t do. Instead of forgetting everything after each session, Supermemory allows apps to retain information, draw insights, and personalize responses over time.
Users can feed it data from documents, chats, or emails, or connect it with Google Drive, OneDrive, or Notion. The technology is already being adopted by AI startups and robotics firms looking to give machines human-like recall.
Dhravya’s goal is simple yet ambitious, to make AI systems that can actually remember. Investors see in him not just a bright coder, but a builder with vision, persistence, and a knack for turning big ideas into reality.
