A couple of teens reminded us this week that age can be just a number when you’re a maker.

First SpaceHey, a MySpace-like site from 19-year-old developer An, hit 200,000 users. Then yesterday, on her fifteenth birthday, Pranjali Awasthi launched Delv, an AI-powered engine that summarizes and graphs information to help you learn about complex concepts faster.

“Let's say you're getting into AI..." Awasthi explained, "[Y]ou want well-researched information on a multi-layered concept like Classification Models, you plug in specific topics you want to know, [and] websites you like reading from. Delv will build you a knowledge graph of connected concepts, with each node representing a highly relevant article's summary.”

Delv has been backed by Backend Capital — Awasthi is an Entrepreneur In Residence at the early-stage VC firm that's founded by Lucy Guo and Dave Fontenot. In her LinkedIn description, Awasthi describes herself as an “AI/ML & Computational Neuroscience Enthusiast.” Articles online have called her a “child prodigy” and “superstar on the rise.”

Awasthi was previously a research intern at the Schwartz Center for Computational Neuroscience. She also interned at the Neural Dynamics of Control Lab at Florida International University where she worked in the overlap of neuroimaging and machine learning on a project that involved building a classifier to detect errors in cognitive tasks using EEG imaging, supported by a grant she received from the New York Institute of Technology.

Awasthi knows her age surprises and inspires and she credits her success to being exposed to academia at a young age via her mother and father, who brought her to the US from India four years ago. The young founder has been active in efforts to introduce more young students to AI.

“I feel we need to start even more early and introduce AI as a core subject even in elementary school starting from basic projects to increase their knowledge base.”

Shin Kim launched Eraser today, a new all-in-one tool that pairs a whiteboard canvas for visual ideas with a markdown-powered note editor.

The startup largely targets technical teams. At one year old, it’s raised $4M in seed funding and reached 1 million users, some of which discovered the product through partnerships with other remote-focused tools like Gather (which just raised $50M itself).

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