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Sequioa Arc

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Your Company Details Company Name * Date Founded * Company Website Total amount raised in USD as numeric value When did you raise your last round? From whom did you raise? Other Next

Which space is your company in? Please select a sector Pick up to three themes Add a theme not listed above - max 25 characters

What does your company do?

What does your company do in one sentence? - document analytics platform designed for privacy

What does your company do in one paragraph? - dwani.ai - discovery is a document analytics platform, built on top of the multimodal inference API. Interact with Documents, Images, Speech and Text with open source models. It is designed to be self-hosted for data security and privacy

Outlier Spike We want to understand your superpowers.

What are some examples from your life that demonstrate your outlier characteristics? This can be in any area of life and at any age where you were in a league of your own. Were you a video game champ? Popular streamer? Programming wizard? Elite athlete? Mathlete? Debate captain? Military leadership? Start a business as a kid? There's no right or wrong answer. We're just trying to appreciate your specialness. sachin shetty

Won 1st place in 2006, 2nd place in 2007 at District Level Science Exhibition, Dharwad India. For Carbon Nanotubes and Cloning showcase. Built android app in 2012 to automate Undergraduate Lab Entries for Students saving 10,000 pages per year. Won 1st place at BITS quark 2013 for the Android project.

Grit & Motivation What’s the hardest thing you have overcome? What did you learn about yourself? This could be professional or personal.

Identifying that ideas not pursued is a failure, Had prototyped multiple products over the years, but did not take it further. Android apps in 2012, RFID for toll-gates in 2015. Drones for Solar panel cleaning in 2018. Now dwani.ai is an idea that i am giving it all, bootstrapping it and scraping every cent to make it work. with or without investment will make it reach 700M users

Founder-Problem Fit Who is your customer and how do you know this problem is worth solving for them? 0/600 characters Required field What do your competitors do well? Why would they win? 0/600 characters Required field What is your unfair advantage in solving this problem? Why will you win? 0/600 characters Required field How do you plan on making money? How does this grow to a $X00M+ revenue business? 0/400 characters Required field Have you launched?

There's no wrong answer. You can apply with an idea and no lines of code, or an MVP with early customer traction. If you haven't launched, please enter 0 in the following fields. Yes No How many users do you have? Numeric Value How many users did you have 6 months ago? Numeric Value What is your current level of annualized revenue, in USD? What was your annualized revenue 6 months ago, in USD? What more can you share about your current level of usage and traction? 0/400 characters Next

Speed & Slope How have you made progress in the last four weeks on your company or idea? 0/400 characters Next

References Who would be your strongest advocate if we asked them about you? Please share up to three names per founder. We may reach out to them during the process. sachin shetty Reference 1 Full Name * LinkedIn URL Email Add reference Next check