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This 15-Year-Old Built an AI Platform

Nick Dobroshinsky runs a startup with 50,000 monthly users. He also has homework.

By day, the 15-year-old from the US is a sophomore in high school. By night, he’s building BeyondSPX - an AI finance platform now used by investors.

What it does: BeyondSPX generates research reports on small firms - explaining to investors what a company does, how it makes money, recent performance, and key risks. This kind of coverage is routine for large corporations, but often missing for smaller ones.

“I wanted to make some sort of business,” Dobroshinsky says. “I spent a long time thinking about problems that could be fixed with AI.”

He’s written only about 10 lines of code himself. Most of the platform is built by orchestrating AI tools. Growth didn’t come from a marketing team either - he used Reddit bots to pitch BeyondSPX when users asked about investing tools.

Dobroshinsky isn’t an outlier. Teens are building real companies: Raghav Arora runs GetASAP, an AI inventory company that forecasts demand for retailers in the US and Asia. Another teen founder turned a school candy-selling business into a logistics startup after learning how distribution works.

Building serious software once required years of training, teams of engineers, and significant capital. AI has lowered those barriers, and investors say they’re increasingly hearing from founders who are still in school.

(Source: The Wall Street Journal - by Katherine Bindley)

No Swipes. No Games. Just Dates.

What if dating apps stopped making you swipe, and started asking you questions instead?

San Francisco-based startup Known uses voice AI to interview users instead of making them fill out profiles or prompts. The AI asks follow-ups, picks up on nuances, and uses that to suggest matches - then nudges both people to meet.

The idea is that people reveal more when they speak than when typing - the AI asks questions such as “what does a perfect day look like for you?“ or “if I asked your ex, what would they say dating you was like?“.

In early tests, Known says 80% of its introductions led to real, in-person dates, far higher than swipe-based apps. Once matched, users have limited time to schedule a date - no endless chatting, no ghosting.

Meet Dr. Sara Saeed, co-founder of Sehet Kahani

Celebrating this week’s Woman in Tech 🥳: Meet Dr. Sara Saeed Khurram, the doctor who helped build Sehet Kahani, one of Pakistan’s largest telemedicine platforms.

Saeed grew up in Pakistan and trained as a doctor, working in hospitals across gynecology and psychiatry. But early on, she saw two gaps: millions of patients who couldn’t access doctors, and thousands of qualified women doctors forced to leave medicine due to marriage or pregnancy.

After moving into community health and insurance, that reality became impossible to ignore. In 2017, she co-founded Sehat Kahani, a telemedicine platform that connects patients to an all-female network of doctors through a mobile app.

The idea was to bring healthcare to underserved communities, while bringing women doctors back into the workforce. Under Saeed’s leadership, Sehat Kahani has delivered millions of consultations, scaled rapidly during COVID-19, and partnered with governments and major companies across Pakistan.

The mission is personal: Saeed has spoken openly about losing her own job during pregnancy and struggling with postpartum depression.

Saeed’s work shows how tech, when designed through lived experience, can unlock both healthcare access and women’s economic participation.