Brienne Ghafourifar
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 $30 million. Brienne and her brother, Alston, co-founded Entefy, an enterprise AI company. Entefy has invested 300,000+ hours in advanced R&D, with contributions to its platform from 150+ scientists and engineers worldwide. Entefy’s enterprise customers vary in size from SMEs to $100+ Billion US and global public companies across industries, including financial services, healthcare, retail, and manufacturing. Brienne is also a published inventor with 19 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. Brienne serves as a member of the Advisory Board for Santa Clara University’s Leavey School of Business.
