Turbo AI
AI note-taking platform built by 20-year-old college dropouts that hit 5M users in 18 months with $300 startup capital
www.turbo.aiAnnual Revenue
$2M+ (subscription MRR), $21.1M reported by Getlatka
MRR
$167K
Team
192
Funding
Seed-stage (profit-funded with venture for optionality)
Founder
Sarthak Dhawan
Co-Founder & CEO
Built UMax to $6M ARR and 20M users before age 20. Launched Turbo AI with only $300 in startup capital and grew to 5M users while remaining profitable — 40+ TikToks in first 2 weeks, one went viral with millions of views.
What Turbo AI Does
Turbo AI (formerly TurboLearn) is an AI-powered note-taking and study platform that transforms lectures, videos, PDFs, and audio into structured notes, flashcards, quizzes, and podcast summaries. Users record lectures or upload content, and the AI generates fully editable, organized notes in ~30 seconds with 99% accuracy — including technical terms, math, code, and medical terminology. Supports 18 document formats with cross-platform sync. Has expanded beyond students to professionals at Goldman Sachs, McKinsey, and other Fortune 500 companies for meeting transcription and document summarization.
Revenue Highlights
- 5 million users in 18 months while remaining profitable
- Launched with only $300 startup capital — bootstrapped to profitability in first 2 months
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