A 19-year-old from Mumbai has built an AI tool that helps applications actually remember things, and investors are paying attention.
TLDR:
- Mumbai teen Dhravya Shah raised $2.6 million for his AI memory startup, Supermemory
- Supermemory helps AI apps retain and recall context using knowledge graphs
- The tool supports unstructured and multimodal data like files, chats, and even video
- Backers include Cloudflare’s CTO, Google AI chief Jeff Dean, and executives from OpenAI and Meta
What Happened?
Dhravya Shah, a 19-year-old entrepreneur originally from Mumbai, has raised $2.6 million in seed funding for his AI startup Supermemory. The platform builds a universal memory API for apps, helping them retain long-term context by analyzing unstructured data. Backed by high-profile investors like Google’s Jeff Dean and Cloudflare CTO Dane Knecht, Supermemory is gaining traction among AI developers looking to add memory features to their applications.
Supermemory has raised $3M in pre-seed funding to build the best memory engine for agents.
— supermemory (@supermemoryai) October 6, 2025
Agents needs to be personalized. They need to learn and grow with the user. They need memory.
And that’s the future we’re building today.https://t.co/8fhhJ6tqHt pic.twitter.com/DuQXqzHbFv
From Mumbai to Arizona and Into AI
Shah’s tech journey began early. He sold a tweet-formatting bot to social media tool Hypefury, and instead of pursuing entrance into India’s elite IIT, he moved to the U.S. to attend Arizona State University. Once in the U.S., he set a bold challenge for himself: build a new project every week for 40 weeks. One of those weeks birthed Supermemory, originally called Any Context is a small tool that let users chat with their Twitter bookmarks. He posted it on GitHub, but it didn’t stop there.
After an internship at Cloudflare, where he later worked as a developer relations lead, Shah received advice from top executives who encouraged him to turn the prototype into a full-fledged product. In 2025, he committed to building Supermemory full-time.
What Is Supermemory?
Supermemory is a universal memory layer for AI apps. It allows applications to ingest and recall data across time, sessions, and formats. It does this by building knowledge graphs from unstructured data, including:
- Files
- Documents
- Emails
- PDFs
- Chat logs
- App data streams
The product can integrate with tools like Google Drive, OneDrive, and Notion, and features a chatbot and note-taking functionality. There’s even a Chrome extension for capturing website notes directly.
The tool supports multimodal inputs, which means it could help a video editor retrieve assets, or enable an AI email assistant to recall messages from months ago.
“Our core strength is to extract insights from any kind of unstructured data and give the apps more context about users,” Shah said.
Who’s Backing It?
The $2.6 million seed round was led by Susa Ventures, Browder Capital, and SF1.vc. Notable investors include:
- Jeff Dean, Google AI Chief.
- Dane Knecht, Cloudflare CTO.
- Logan Kilpatrick, DeepMind Product Manager.
- David Cramer, Sentry Founder.
- Executives from OpenAI, Meta, and Google.
Joshua Browder, founder of DoNotPay and head of Browder Capital, shared his impression of Shah:
I connected with Dhravya over X, and what struck me was how quickly he moves and builds things, and that prompted me to invest in him.
Who’s Using It?
Supermemory is already working with multiple startups, including:
- Cluely, an a16z-backed desktop assistant.
- Montra, an AI video editor.
- Scira, an AI search tool.
- Rube, a multi-MCP tool from Composio.
- Rets, a real estate startup.
- A robotics firm using Supermemory to retain visual memories from robots.
While the product is consumer-accessible, it is clearly built with developers in mind, serving as a toolkit for those integrating memory into their own AI applications.
Competition and Future
Supermemory is not alone in this space. Competing startups like Letta, Mem0, and Memories.ai are also tackling AI memory. Shah briefly worked at Mem0 before launching his own tool. Even one of Supermemory’s investors, Susa Ventures, has backed competing companies.
Still, Shah believes Supermemory stands out due to its low-latency performance and flexible integration across use cases.
What TechKV Thinks?
I love this story. It’s not every day you see a 19-year-old from Mumbai building something this advanced, with backing from some of the biggest names in AI. Supermemory tackles a real bottleneck in AI today: context and memory. Tools like ChatGPT can handle short conversations, but they lose track of what happened days ago. Supermemory wants to fix that.
Dhravya Shah is clearly not just another young founder. His track record of building, shipping, and scaling tools before 20 is impressive. And the fact that he skipped Y Combinator because he already had serious investors on board? That says a lot about his momentum.
I’ll be watching Supermemory closely. If it can deliver on its vision of a memory layer for all kinds of AI apps, it could become an essential building block in the next wave of smarter software.
