A 17-year-old schoolboy from Almaty created the startup Pleep and attracted $100,000 in investments

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17-year-old Mark Inger from Almaty raised $100,000 from Impala Partners for his startup Pleep. The platform allows small and medium-sized businesses to create AI assistants in 15 minutes by answering seven questions, without requiring specialized knowledge. The raised funds will be directed toward marketing and product improvement.

Mark Inger, a 17-year-old high school student from Almaty and the founder of the startup Pleep, has attracted $100,000 in investments from the Impala Partners fund. The young entrepreneur created an ecosystem for creating and managing AI assistants for small and medium-sized businesses, which has already attracted the attention of well-known Kazakh companies.

Pleep allows entrepreneurs to create a full-fledged AI assistant in 15 minutes without any knowledge of AI. All that an entrepreneur needs to do is answer seven questions about their business. Then, Pleep will independently configure the model, prompt, and everything else needed for the AI assistant to be high-quality out of the box.

The raised funds will be spent on marketing and product improvement.

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