Pranjali Awasthi has emerged as one of the youngest founders in the global tech sector, scaling her artificial intelligence startup, Delv.AI, to a valuation of nearly ₹100 crore. Introduced to computer science at age seven by her engineer father, Awasthi’s entrepreneurial journey accelerated during a university research internship at age 13. Confronted with the inefficiencies of traditional data retrieval, she recognized a solution with the release of OpenAI’s ChatGPT-3 beta. Reflecting on that pivotal shift, she noted, “In 2020, OpenAI released its ChatGPT-3 beta, and I knew we could use it to make extracting and summarising research data easier.”
At 15, after joining a 12-week startup accelerator cohort, she launched Delv.AI on Product Hunt, securing early investments from On Deck and Village Global. While scaling her venture and earning a Bachelor of Science from the Georgia Institute of Technology, Awasthi co-founded Salshy in March 2025—an AI-powered email automation platform designed as a digital executive assistant.
Navigating the volatile tech landscape as a young founder, she has managed both rapid industry pivots and skepticism from peers. “We’re dealing with a flood of new AI products – the competition is insane. In 2021, in Miami, everyone was talking about crypto. By the end of 2022, that had changed completely to AI,” she stated.
