The AI landscape across the United States is being shaped by Indian immigrants, including CEOs, startup founders, college goers, and American Dream aspirants. 15-year-old Siddharth Nandyala is using AI for early detection of heart diseases; Google roped in AI coding startup CEO Varun Mohan for $2.4bn; 22-year-old Adarsh Hiremath and Surya Midha became the world’s youngest self-made billionaires. Dhravya Shah, a college dropout building a critical AI memory solution, is a new arrival in the elite club of Indian-origin innovators shaping the AI-driven US economy.
Who is Dhravya Shah, CEO of Supermemory?
Dhravya Shah is a 20-year-old Indian-origin entrepreneur in the AI ecosystem of Silicon Valley and Einstein visa holder. His AI infrastructure company, Supermemory, in the San Francisco Bay Area has recently raised $3 million in seed funding. Born and raised in Mumbai, Shah grew up in a middle-class Indian household where parents dream of IIT education for their children. Like scores of Indian students, Dhravya initially prepared for competitive engineering entrance exams for IITs. During the pandemic when social distance became a new normal, he convinced his parents to buy him a laptop.
When he got a laptop, he quietly embarked on a journey to where he is today. Alongside focusing on IIT entrance exams, he began teaching himself how to build software. One of his earliest successful products was Tweets.beauty, a tool to create customizable and shareable images of tweets in no time. The tool gained strong traction and was eventually acquired by Hypefury, a popular social media growth platform. The acquisition not just got Dhravya Shah early financial independence, it propelled him to thrive further.
Like young Indians who make their first India to USA travel with big dreams and baggage, Shah arrived in the US to learn, build, and grow in a new ecosystem. He enrolled at Arizona State University for a degree in computer science. He once challenged himself to build a new project every seven days for 40 weeks. That experiment led to a prototype of what later became Supermemory. Realizing that building products taught him more than classrooms, Shah dropped out of college to focus completely on tech jobs and entrepreneurship.
His career in the US evolved over various roles, from a full-stack developer at Hypefury to an AI engineer at Mem0 to a developer relations role at Cloudflare, where mentorship from senior engineers enriched his knowledge of scalable systems. These experiences collectively prepared him for his biggest leap yet. In May 2025, Shah received the O-1 visa, which is popularly nicknamed Einstein Visa for individuals with extraordinary ability.
Announcing the milestone online, he wrote, “Officially recognised as extraordinary by the government of USA. Now, I can build a company freely in the US, self-employ and more.”
Today, Dhravya lives and works in San Francisco, his home away from home. Like Amit Kashyap, who took his parents to Las Vegas, and Shivangi Reja, who gave her parents a tour of her workplace at Microsoft’s headquarters in Seattle, Supermemory CEO Dhravya Shah invited his parents to his adopted home, America, and took them on tours in the south coast sharing his moments of gratitude to them who worked hard to pave the way for his journey from India to USA.
What is Supermemory? Dhravya’s AI Product
Dhravya Shah’s Supermemory is a leading AI company empowering LLMs to solve one of the biggest limitations of modern artificial intelligence – memory. Most AI systems are powerful but forgetful. They respond well in the moment but struggle to recall past interactions, preferences, and contexts. Supermemory provides a universal memory layer that allows AI systems to store, organize, and recall information over time. What started as a simple bookmarking and note-taking tool built in a college dorm is now a full-scale memory engine for AI applications.
