Maanit Sharma

Founder @ DevRipe | EECS @ UC Berkeley

Millbrae, California, United States

About

I'm a 22-year-old Berkeley student founder exploring one problem I keep hearing from sales leaders: figuring out which deals in your pipeline are actually going to close takes way more time than it should. Currently in discovery mode, talking to as many sales leaders as possible before building anything. If deal inspection is something you deal with, I'd love to hear about your experience. Let's have a 15-min chat: https://calendly.com/maanitsharma21/maanit-call Previously founded and scaled Avonian to 6 figures.

Experience

  • Co-Founder at DevRipe
    Jan 2026 - Present · 6 mos

    13 Hacks - 1st Place Winner Helping sales leaders spend less time figuring out which deals are actually going to close.

  • EPIC Lab Fellow at Santa Clara University
    Jun 2020 - Present · 6 yrs 1 mo

    GrapeSense: A Grape Aging Classifier Using Residual Transfer Learning On Drone Images Developed machine learning algorithms for image classification of grapes in vineyards for robotic harvesting. Ongoing research to develop drone-based classification of grapes in real life vineyard settings

  • Founder at Avonian
    May 2022 - Jan 2026 · 3 yrs 9 mos

    Help medical spas and wellness centers acquire new high-ticket customers for their aesthetic and wellness services through social media video ads and sms marketing. Generating over 30x ROI on ad spend.

  • Founder/Lead Instructor at Junior Robotics
    Jun 2020 - Jan 2026 · 5 yrs 8 mos

    A 501(3)(c) nonprofit that offers summer and school year courses on Python coding, OnShape CADing, and web design to low-income middle school students. www.juniorrobotics.org