『Biography Flash: Sophia Kianni Lands $30M for AI Shopping App Phia at $180M Valuation with Phoebe Gates』のカバーアート

Biography Flash: Sophia Kianni Lands $30M for AI Shopping App Phia at $180M Valuation with Phoebe Gates

Biography Flash: Sophia Kianni Lands $30M for AI Shopping App Phia at $180M Valuation with Phoebe Gates

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Sophia Kianni has spent the past few days not just as a climate activist turned entrepreneur, but as the cofounder at the center of one of the hottest AI consumer startups on the planet. Multiple outlets from Bloomberg, picked up by the South China Morning Post and the Times of India, report that Phia, the AI shopping assistant she built with Phoebe Gates out of a Stanford dorm room, has just secured around 30 million dollars in new funding at a valuation of roughly 180 million dollars. According to India Today and the Times of India, the app and browser extension now help users hunt best prices, surface secondhand options, and highlight lower-impact alternatives across thousands of retailers, positioning Phia as both a fashion tool and a sustainability play that fits squarely with Kianni’s climate roots. Entrepreneur Loop adds that Phia has reached about 750,000 downloads in eight months, a scale milestone that cements this funding round as a long term biographical turning point for Kianni, transitioning her from youth climate phenom into a serious AI founder.

Coverage in India Today and Entrepreneur Loop revisits her backstory: an Iranian American climate activist, founder of Climate Cardinals, former youngest UN climate adviser from the United States, now applying that advocacy credibility to build an AI platform that pushes greener consumer choices. Those pieces also note that the original concept she and Gates kicked around was a so called smart tampon before they pivoted to fixing the chaos of online shopping, a detail that has been widely repeated and appears to be part of the confirmed origin myth of Phia rather than rumor. Vogue and other lifestyle outlets, referenced in Times of India and Entrepreneur Loop, underscore that Kianni even paused her studies to learn the fashion and retail world quickly, reinforcing the narrative of a high conviction founder betting her career on this company.

Looking ahead, TechCrunch has already billed Kianni and Gates as featured speakers at TechCrunch Disrupt 2025, where they are set to talk about scaling consumer AI and winning Gen Z trust, signaling that her next major public appearance will be on one of the industrys biggest stages. There are no credible reports in the last 24 hours of scandal, controversy, or major shifts in her climate work; social coverage right now is dominated by excitement about Phias celebrity backed cap table, with names like Hailey Bieber, Kris Jenner, Sheryl Sandberg, and Sara Blakely repeatedly cited in mainstream tech and business press. Any whispers about tensions between climate activism and consumerism are, at this point, mostly speculative commentary rather than documented conflict involving Kianni herself.

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