Opennote
Category: AI in Education
An AI-powered platform that creates personalized video lessons, practice problems, and interactive drawings to make studying engaging and collaborative. Opennote was founded in 2025. The company is led by Abhigyan (Abhi) Arya. Based in San Francisco, CA, USA. Team size: 3. Total funding raised: $850,000. Latest round: Pre-seed. Key investors include Afore Capital, Sancus Ventures, Script Capital, Untitled Ventures, Y Combinator.
- Founded
- 2025
- Headquarters
- San Francisco, CA, USA
- Team size
- 3
- Total funding
- $850,000
Value proposition
Transforms diverse study materials (notes, videos, slides) into interactive, personalized, and collaborative learning experiences.
Products and solutions
AI-generated personalized video lessons, Interactive quizzes and practice problems, Collaborative whiteboards and shared workspaces
Unique value
Opennote uses multimodal AI to convert various study materials into interactive, personalized video content and integrates collaborative environments, shifting from passive to active learning.
Target customer
Students and educational institutions.
Industries served
Education Technology (EdTech)
Technology advantage
Its core advantage is the platform's ability to generate new, engaging educational content (video, animations) combined with social learning tools, backed by Y Combinator.
How they differentiate
Opennote focuses on generating new, interactive multimodal content (like videos) from user uploads and integrating real-time collaboration, whereas competitors often focus on existing Q&A databases, flashcards, or text-based summaries.
Main competitors
Quizlet, Course Hero, Socratic by Google
Key partnerships
Y Combinator, Desmo
Major milestones
Won 'Best Use of AI in Education' at LA Hacks 2024., Backed by Y Combinator., Successfully launched platform, achieving rapid global user adoption.
Growth metrics
Reached over 50,000 users across 110+ countries within four months of its 2025 launch.
Market positioning
An emerging AI-native challenger in the student study tools market, focusing on active and collaborative learning.
Geographic focus
Global
Patents and IP
N/A
About Abhigyan (Abhi) Arya
Abhigyan (Abhi) Arya is a co-founder of Opennote. He is a software engineer with a strong interest in AI, particularly in agent systems, model development, and real-time infrastructure. He is currently on leave from the University of California, Irvine, where he was studying Computer Science, Engineering, and Mathematics, to focus on building Opennote.
Official website: https://www.opennote.com/