Entefy Inc.
Brienne Ghafourifar is a full-stack entrepreneur on a mission to build disruptive technologies that can help people live and work better. She set a world record at the age of 17 as the youngest college graduate to raise $1 million in venture funding; that figure has since grown to more than $25 million. Brienne and her brother, Alston, co-founded Entefy, an AI software and hyperautomation company. After investing 250,000+ hours in advanced R&D (with more than 100 scientists and engineers contributing to its AI platform), Entefy is serving enterprise customers across a number of industries, including financial services, healthcare, retail, and manufacturing. Entefy’s customers vary in size from SMEs to $100+ Billion US and global public companies. Brienne is also a published inventor with 18 patents (in intelligent agents, multi-agent systems, search, communication, data privacy, and more) awarded by the USPTO and a key contributor to Entefy’s IP portfolio.
As a leader among young entrepreneurs, she has been covered by international media including Fast Company, CNN Money, Forbes, NBC, and The Huffington Post, among others. With a deep passion for entrepreneurship and courageous innovation, Brienne has been a guest lecturer at several top universities in the U.S. (including Santa Clara University, Stanford, UC Berkeley, and UPenn) as well as a frequent speaker at conferences and workshops internationally in support of entrepreneurship and STEM. She is also featured in the award-winning documentary film, “She Started It,” highlighting women tech founders around the globe.