AI comes of age while some of its founders are yet to

Ahmad Abdur Rahman Khan, a 21-year-old from Kolkata, had just finished his second year at the University of Waterloo, Canada, when he co-founded Anytool, an AI vulnerability management platform. The startup was soon selected by the famed San Francisco-based accelerator –Y Combinator (YC)– for its winter 2026 batch, catapulting Khan into the fast-swelling ranks of twenty-somethings who are steering cool AI startups.

The average age of these newbie founders is dropping as AI models make it easier to develop applications, there is also the shrinking…