A 15-Year-Old's Second Act: Building an AI Investing SaaS After a Failed NFT Startup
After his first startup collapsed, 15-year-old Vedant Verma started Segmentize, a pre-launch AI platform for investing discipline that is already growing monthly visits without paid marketing.
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Business snapshot
- Business model
- SaaS
- Started
- Sept 2023
- Team
- Solo founder
- Based in
- Nagpur, Maharashtra, India
- Founder age
- 15
- Monthly visit growth
- 8-10% monthly
- First startup valuation
- a million dollars
- First team size
- 5 people, 3 continents
- Paid customer goal
- 1000 by end of financial year
Tools
- Webflow
- OpenAI
- Zapier
- Stripe
- Notion
- Todoist
- GoDaddy
Founder-reported figures, not independently verified.
Who built it, and what they built
Vedant Verma is a 15-year-old founder based in Nagpur, Maharashtra, India. He runs Segmentize, an AI startup aimed at changing how people approach investing and building wealth.
Alongside the startup, he writes a blog on entrepreneurship and philosophy at his personal site, and he describes himself as an author with a book titled "Blockchain Mania" planned for release by the end of the year. He says he is also pursuing Investment Banking.
“My vision is just not to build a mere product but to create a whole ecosystem around investing.”
Where the idea came from
Vedant launched his first venture at 14: an NFT marketplace called Metabasket, built with a five-person team spread across three continents. He says it reached a million dollars in company valuation and gave him experience leading teams and fundraising, plus a network of angels, VCs, and blockchain developers.
The marketplace eventually shut down, which he attributes to market volatility and weak marketing reach. After taking a break, he started Segmentize, motivated by what he saw as low financial awareness in his country leaving people dependent on a single income.
He reports that Segmentize's monthly visits are climbing 8-10% each month with no official launch or marketing, driven mostly by his blog and Instagram.
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