Founded 2026
Founders Aryan Shah, CEO Waris Reshi, CTO

hug is an AI friend that texts back on iMessage, Telegram and Discord. It remembers each person, has its own opinions and checks in first, offering companionship that feels like texting a real friend.


Founders

Aryan
Shah

CEO

Aryan dropped out at 16 after closing $8K over the summer. By 17, he built a 15-person sales team, lost the company, then started again. Since then he’s closed $17K in 10 days from his consulting firm, generated 3.8M views from his first week on X.

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Waris
Reshi

CTO

Waris is the youngest EF India founder, learnt programming at eight (in a small village in Kashmir). He cold emailed his way into studying at college at age 10, then built and scaled a sales company to $40k ARR while being in high school.

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