Arian Hanifi is Co-Founder and CTO at Strawberry, a Stockholm-based agentic browser with built-in AI companions that automate web tasks for non-technical teams.

Arian studied Business and Economics at the Stockholm School of Economics and Computer Science at KTH. He worked as an Analyst at node.vc and interned as a Software Engineer at Handelsbanken.

Arian has been building software since age 13 and is nicknamed the LLM-whisperer by his team. His past projects include a graph neural network that predicts the smell of molecules, and he led a two-week rewrite of Strawberry's browser frontend from React to Svelte.

Strawberry raised a $6M seed round in October 2025, co-led by General Catalyst and EQT Ventures, with founders of Lovable, Supabase and Hugging Face participating. Arian leads the engineering behind a Chromium-based browser that runs many AI agents in parallel.

Strawberry's 12-person team took the product out of beta with version 1.0 in October 2026, targeting sales, recruiting, marketing and support teams. Early users earned it Product Hunt Product of the Day and Product of the Week.