Avi Patel is a 22-year-old serial entrepreneur and CEO of Kled AI, a decentralized data marketplace built on Solana that enables individuals and enterprises to license their data to AI companies.

Born in Los Angeles and raised in Somerset, New Jersey, Avi graduated from Rutgers Preparatory School and enrolled at the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign to study Computer Science before dropping out to pursue entrepreneurship full-time.

A Forbes Technology Council member, Avi holds a 2400+ chess rating, was a former top-ranked tennis player, and achieved his first startup exit at just 18 years old.

Avi previously founded Nitrility, the world's first IP marketplace working with over a billion dollars in assets from 34,000 rightsholders, before launching Kled AI as a new vertical under the Nitrility umbrella.

Kled AI has attracted 200,000+ data contributors, generated over 12,000 structured datasets, raised $9M in total funding at a $100M valuation, and secured partnerships with major AI labs including the team behind Google's NotebookLM.