DigestAI’s 19-year-old founder wants to make education addictive

Quddus Pativada wanted an app that would summarize his books. Five years later, Pativada launched the Kado app, which turns photos, documents or PDFs into flash cards. As the 19-year-old founder takes the stage for Startup Battlefield, he wants to take his company to the next level by creating an artificial intelligence dialogue assistant that we can all carry around with us.

Pativada said that learning could be done as soon as you opened your phone. We want to put a teacher in everyone's phone.

Quddus Pativada is the founder of Digestai and pitches as part of the TechCrunch Startup Battlefield. The image was created by Haje Kamps.

To make sure that its responses are accurate and not thrown off by online chaos, the company's artificial intelligence is trained on data from the internet.

The actual use cases are called within the silo. Pativada said that they are calling itfederated learning, where it is sort of siloed in and language models operate on a use case basis. This is a good thing because of it.

Pativada said that this kind of product would be different from other smart assistants because it would be more detailed. For certain use cases, like asking for sources to use in an essay, the artificial intelligence will pull from academic journals to make sure the information is appropriate for a classroom.

Pativada isn't currently in school. He took a gap year before going to college to work on his startup, but as Digestai took off, he decided to keep building. He wanted to make his own game when he was a kid because he loved video games. His technological ambitions grew over time. Pativada built a platform to trace people. After making the app as a tool for his classmates, he was honored by the United Arab Emirates government.

The image is called Digestai.

The outlook is positive for the company in the Middle East. Pativada's SAT prep company, Prep Expert, has raised $600,000 from angel investors, including Mark Cuban, who invested in the company on the show.

One of the most well-known startup investors in the world is interested in a 19-year-old. An email. We are sorry if this admission makes your inbox even worse.

Pativada was watching a video of Cuban. I looked at the time in Dallas and saw that it was about 9 AM. I was wondering if I should just shoot him an email. He reached out to the founder of the educational startup. After jumping on a video call with the founder, he and Cuban both offered to invest in the company.

Pativada said that they raised their whole round through cold emails. No one can see my age in person.

Pativada was interviewed with an alumni before he decided to abandon college. He didn't get into Palo Alto but his interviewer invested in his company. GoFIGURE.

Pativada wants to work with universities. The company is targeting businesses. Digestai works with a number of clients, including a European law firm and some U.S. based universities. The law firm is testing a tool that will allow associates to text a number to quickly learn about legal terms.

He wants information to be so accessible that it's "addictive" and he wants a system where people can text the artificial intelligence to ask for help.

It is almost the best version of a human being.