Glimmer

AI search for massive PDFs

Y CombinatorWinter 2024InactiveB2BSearchAI

What they do

Problem

Searching and extracting specific information from massive PDFs is slow and inefficient with traditional keyword search.

Solution

Glimmer uses AI to index large PDFs and enables natural-language search that returns answers with cited page sources.

Who it's for

Professionals and teams in construction, law, finance, and healthcare who regularly work with very large PDFs.

Founders

Praneeth Guduguntla

Founder

Praneeth is the co-founder and CEO of Glimmer. Previously, he built computer vision widgets at Palantir and launched the first AI video editing tool for Facebook Reels at Meta. Praneeth graduated from UIUC with a computer science degree where where he and his co-founder built software for nonprofits together.

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Arman Rafati

Founder

Arman is the co-founder and CTO of Glimmer. Previously, he worked on corporate cards at Mercury, the first-ever BNPL debit card at Affirm, and helped launch AWS's Heroku competitor, AppRunner. Arman studied Computer Science & Economics at UIUC. He spent most of his free time in college building software for nonprofits, and most of his free time in high school reselling sneakers and building an app that he sold to his high school.

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