Berkeley, California

Fatimah
Hussain

Creator & builder helping students afford college. Founder of Fatimah's Guide and finnie. EECS at UC Berkeley.

200M+: content views
250K+: followers
NYT · USA Today: featured in

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About

Currently

Second-year studying electrical engineering & computer science at UC Berkeley.
Founder of Fatimah's Guide, helping high school & college students pay for college and find unique extracurriculars. 200M views, 250K followers, partnered with OpenAI, Notion, Adobe, Microsoft and more.
Building finnie, a tool that helps students afford college through simpler scholarship search. Recent winner of the ChatGPT Futures grant.
Building a mentorship program through Fatimah's Guide.

Previously

Building since age 14, starting with children's business fairs in her hometown.
Founding cohort of FoundHer House, the all-female hacker house in SF covered by The New York Times and USA Today, where residents raised $7M by the end of the cohort.
Ran 2minmaths, breaking down difficult math concepts in two minutes, reaching 25K subscribers across TikTok and YouTube.
Founded perky3dprints, a five-figure 3D-printing business in high school, and shipped Blackjack Jackpot Cards to the App Store, hand-coded pre-AI tools.
Two TEDx talks (London and her hometown) and part of the Founders Inc offseason cohort.

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Press

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The New York Times · Aug 23, 2025

In an All-Female Hacker House, Women Build the Next Wave of AI Startups

Inside FoundHer House, the SF live-in incubator where 18- to 21-year-old founders from Stanford, Berkeley, Cornell, and USC are racing to ship AI products.

OpenAI · May 6, 2026

ChatGPT Futures 2026 Awardee

Recognized in OpenAI's inaugural ChatGPT Futures Class of 2026: 26 students and young builders honored for shipping with AI.

Times Square · 2025

Featured on a New York Times Square billboard

Karat × fatimahs.guide: 300M views and 200K followers as an educational content creator, lit up in Times Square.

Fast Company · May 2026

OpenAI awards students $10,000 prizes for innovative use of AI

Fast Company covered OpenAI's ChatGPT Futures program, highlighting the students receiving $10,000 grants for building ambitious projects with AI.

USA Today · Aug 20, 2025

Their rent is VC-backed and they're blasting Taylor Swift: Inside this all-female hacker house

USA Today goes inside the all-female hacker house in Silicon Valley redefining what a tech founder looks like.

All People Power · 2026

APP Accelerator First Place Winner: $15K Grant

Won first place in the All People Powered Accelerator pitch competition for finnie, awarded a $15,000 grant from HiiiWAY.

CodeTV · S3 · E3

Web Dev Challenge S3E3: An app to bring people together

Featured on CodeTV's Web Dev Challenge: building an app to make us less lonely, maybe.

Tech Roast Show · 2025

Pitching a meme app on the Tech Roast Show

Got roasted (and pitched) live on the Tech Roast Show podcast.

TEDx Talks · London

Breaking the feedback loop from Hell

TEDxYouth @ Shaftesbury School · Fatimah Hussain.

KTVU FOX 2 · 2023

Contra Costa Shark Tank Youth Competition

Bay Area teen entrepreneur kickstarts a local youth competition, live in-studio on KTVU with the first-place winner.

The Wildcat Tribune · Oct 10, 2023

Learning by Doing: A First 3D Printing Business

Profile on starting Unicorn Lock, a child-safe lock business, and the lessons of consistency, failure, and impact across four early ventures.

City of San Ramon · 2022

2022 San Ramon Outstanding Teen Citizenship Award

Honored by the City of San Ramon Parks & Community Services for community service and leadership.

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Work

finnie

Founder · now

A scholarship search tool that helps students afford college through simpler, less overwhelming discovery. Winner of an OpenAI ChatGPT Futures grant and a $15K APP Accelerator grant.

Fatimah's Guide

Creator · now

Educational content helping high school and college students pay for college and find unique extracurriculars. 200M+ views and 250K+ followers across platforms, with a mentorship program on the way.

Stan Store

Templates & resources

Templates and resources for high school and college students, all in one hub: college apps, scholarships, productivity and more.

Earlier ventures

Since age 14

perky3dprints, a five-figure 3D-printing business in high school · Blackjack Jackpot Cards, an iOS game hand-coded pre-AI tools · 2minmaths, a math channel with 25K subscribers · children's business fairs · two TEDx talks · founding cohort of FoundHer House and the Founders Inc offseason cohort.

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