Dhravya Shah's Supermemory just raised $3M to build memory for AI. But the funding is the least interesting part of his story.

Supermemory is Dhravya in company form.

I jokingly suggested Dhravya write “Unforgettable” on the backside of sweatpants with the Supermemory logo and give them out as swag. He took it seriously. A few weeks later, the sweatpants arrived.

When people talk about solo founding, they often incorrectly focus on “100% ownership,” but the thing that makes solo founded companies different is the level of authorship that a single individual has on their company. This authorship is what caused solo founder (and Supermemory angel investor) John Andrew Entwistle to reflect that, “candidly speaking, [my startup] Wander is my soul, but as a company.”

Authorship causes solo-founded companies to move faster and make higher variance decisions — from funny examples like “Unforgettable” ass sweatpants to much more impactful ones like when to pivot to something more promising.

Earlier this year, Dhravya dropped out of ASU to go all-in on Supermemory, a company creating an interoperable memory layer for AI applications. While at ASU, he had been working part-time at Cloudflare, reporting directly to their CTO, Dane Knecht, who would later become one of Supermemory’s first angel investors.

Dhravya recalled, “I shipped 15+ different small products and got [online] fame” the year before starting Supermemory. “I decided that in 2024, I wanted to focus on one thing and make it good.”

Supermemory began as a hackathon project in 2024 — a consumer “second brain” app that rocketed up the GitHub charts, surpassing 10k stars and becoming one of the fastest-growing OSS projects of the year.

Not long after launching the consumer version of Supermemory, Dhravya started getting inbound from other startups asking for help setting up memory systems for their own products. When Dhravya started pulling the thread, he saw that if he really wanted to have an impact improving memory for AI he would need to start serving other developers. He’s been pursuing it ever since.

- Memory is important for AGI.
- Devs want to switch models without lock-in
- Memory needs to be fast and scalable.
Supermemory is that layer.

If you ask other founders in the Solo Founders Program cohort about Dhravya, the first word they use to describe him is energetic. That energy is applied to everything he does: from same-minute replies to customer emails, to a discipline of near-constant launches, and an enthusiasm for new experiences and ideas.

Supermemory is Dhravya in company form. His teammates all possess the same energetic focus and customer commitment, operating at an unparalleled level of speed and care. There's no room for people who do anything less. The company seems to reinvent itself every week to better serve customers.

During the Solo Founders Program, Dhravya coined a new mantra: ABCDLFG (Always Be Closing Deals, Let's Fucking Go). It represents him well: focused on customers with remarkable enthusiasm. This is the formula for success. I'm excited to be on this journey with Dhravya and Supermemory.

Dhravya inspired the Solo Founders Program.

In many ways, the story of Supermemory is the story of Solo Founders Program.

Meeting Dhravya during ODF23 was one of the moments that made me believe solo founding was inevitable. I believed solo founders would benefit from building together and having someone who they could turn to as a confidant. He was the first person I told we were launching SFP. If it resonated with Dhravya, I suspected it would resonate with other great builders.

Dhravya has mentioned my belief in him — and especially Noémie Federico's belief and support in helping him obtain his O-1 visa. But the reality is he believed in us, too. He said yes to joining Solo Founders Program before we had a website — before we had anything but a belief that solo founders were underestimated and we wanted to do something about it. His enthusiasm for SFP helped us kickstart "solo, together."

P.S. If you’ve made it this far, check out what other solo founders think about Dhravya (+ footage a comms team would not like)

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