Bill Gates’ Daughter Secures $30 Million For AI App Built In Stanford Dorm

Phoebe Gates, Bill Gates’ youngest daughter, has raised $30 million for the AI shopping app she built in her Stanford dorm room with classmate Sophia Kianni. The app is called Phia and is pitched as a way to simplify price comparison and secondhand shopping. “Its AI-powered search engine — available as an app and as a browser extension for Chrome and Safari — pulls listings from more than 40,000 retail and resale sites so users can compare prices, surface real-time deals,…