Nini Sarishvili
CEO and Co-founder
StudyCrowd.AI
I am the CEO and co-founder of an AI-EdTech startup on a mission to revolutionize higher education and career-building through AI. As a second-time founder with over 5 years of experience building tech startups, I share daily short videos documenting my journey and offering valuable insights on how to build a successful tech company based on my experience.
What I love about my job is that I always do new things every day. This is because building a startup is introducing something new to the world and we have to do many different things to make that happen. I love creating something new and changing the world for good. I strongly believe that the higher education system all over the world is broken and I created my startup to fix it. It is very exciting when I see that something I invented already helps hundreds of thousands of students around the world with their studies.
We have set agendas every week that my co-founder and I have to follow. These agendas change constantly, so I never do the same thing every day.
I am an immigrant female founder who came to the UK from a developing country to start her education. After years of being a student and observing problems that students experience, I came up with the idea of StudyCrowd.AI. Without having any connections or sufficient capital to start a business, I still managed to launch this educational technology company with passion, determination, and head work! With StudyCrowd.AI, we are building an AI-powered platform designed to help college students achieve top grades and build high-income, successful careers. Our platform addresses two critical challenges: 1) 40% college dropout rate resulting in losing hundreds of thousands of dollars paid in tuition fees. 2) More than half of college graduates are working in jobs that does not require a college degree. We're not just improving academic performance—we're transforming futures.
I aim to change the higher education system for good in the world. My startup will help students study better and become more successful. We are also helping students be prepared for what is coming after the university and make sure that they are employable. My startup will help the world have more educated and successful youth. I aim to donate more than half of the money I earn from my startup to charitable causes that I believe in. These charitable causes are helping young girls get education in developing countries and generally promote advancement of women in the society. Also, I love animals very much and I will be supporting charities fighting for ending cruelty against animals in the world.
I like to work out to take my mind off work and have some rest. Also, in my free time I love to dance with my partner. Dancing Latin American/Spanish dances is my passion and it helps me distract myself and have fun.
"If you don't build your dream, someone will hire you to help build theirs." ~ Dhirubhai Ambani