RemNote is an all-in-one learning platform that fuses note-taking, PDF annotation, and spaced-repetition flashcards into a single app, so students never have to bounce between Notion, Anki, and Quizlet. Born at MIT in 2020, it lets learners write notes and turn them into flashcards instantly - or let its AI generate cards, quizzes, and summaries from PDFs, lectures, and videos. Backed by a $2.8M seed round and used by hundreds of thousands of learners (especially medical and pre-med students), RemNote aims to reinvent how people learn, think, and remember.
Sophie Novati is the CEO and co-founder of Formation, an A16Z-backed engineering fellowship that helps underrepresented software engineers break into top-tier tech companies. A Carnegie Mellon computer science graduate who rose to staff engineer at Facebook and Nextdoor, she founded Formation in 2019 after recognizing that talented engineers from non-traditional backgrounds were being systematically excluded from elite tech roles. Formation pairs adaptive AI-driven learning with mentorship from senior engineers, and its graduates have landed roles at Meta, Google, Netflix, Amazon, and Dropbox, with an average first-year compensation increase of over $100,000. The company has raised $9 million in funding and Novati credits a 2am chess game with Mark Zuckerberg as one early spark for thinking about business models.