Zach Yadegari Launches Persona AI Startup With $10 Million After Cal AI Hit $30 Million Revenue
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Updated · TechCrunch · Oct 15
Zach Yadegari Launches Persona AI Startup With $10 Million After Cal AI Hit $30 Million Revenue
3 articles · Updated · TechCrunch · Oct 15
Summary
$10 million in fresh funding has backed Persona, a new AI agent startup launched this month by 19-year-old Zach Yadegari.
Persona aims to make computing “seamless with human life” through an assistant that works across iMessage, apps, email and phone calls, with a planned hardware ecosystem around it.
Yadegari arrives with a strong track record: his calorie-tracking app Cal AI, founded in 2024, generated more than $30 million in revenue in two years before MyFitnessPal acquired it in March.
At TechCrunch Disrupt, he said Cal AI’s growth came from aggressively recruiting influencers, after one early post brought about 1,000 new users in two days and validated the model.