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Time is our most valuable and least appreciated asset. Like bankers we spend time; spendthrifts waste time; speculators may be living on borrowed time. But no one has figured out how we can make time.

What’s interesting about time is that unlike every other scarce resource (soybeans, oil reserves, flu vaccines), nobody has any more of it than anybody else. Business executives and bus drivers have exactly 24 hours between sunrises. Working moms and deadbeat dads have seven days in their week—no more, no less. Young or old, rich or poor, post-doc or high school dropout, time is the great equalizer.

What if that changes? What if time can finally be on your side?

It’s impossible to bend the rules of physics to lengthen the working day, but we can eliminate the redundancies and overlaps, the break points and transitions. Imagine if being in Point A and being in Point B did not require commuting between them? If we never had to log off of one system in order to log on to another? Or wait for the copy machine to warm up or the coffee cup to cool down? It might seem like no more than a few seconds here and a few minutes there, until you add them up.

The biggest time sink of them all (after traffic jams and jury duty) is communications. The speed with which we can fire messages around the globe has been offset by the amount of time we spend accessing, organizing, and switching back and forth among them. In the old days, when we checked our messages once as we woke up and once again at bedtime, it didn’t matter. But when information flows into multiple devices continuously throughout the day, the game-changer becomes guiding them into a single channel.

Entefy is unlocking the technology that will add a 25^th hour to your day, an eighth day to your week, an extra month to your year. How will you live it?

Two Entefyers joined this year’s panel of judges at The California Program for Entrepreneurship (CAPE) Business Pitch Competition 2015 at Santa Clara University. The annual competition is a culmination of CAPE’s intensive education course and a wonderful opportunity for participants to showcase the results of their hard work before a distinguished panel of Silicon Valley leaders, venture capitalists, and investors.

Congratulations to this year’s emerging entrepreneurs! We wish you every success in your future endeavors.

We were delighted to host The British School of Brussels at Entefy. Our entire team had a wonderful time engaging with the bright audience, and were truly impressed by their advanced level of understanding and thoughtful questions. There isn’t a doubt in our hearts that these young technologists are well on their way to incredible achievements.

It’s our hope that our new supporters have gained new inspiration and an everlasting passion for cutting-edge technology.

Santa Clara University’s Center for Innovation & Entrepreneurship (CIE) recently hosted its Annual CIE Advisory Board Meeting. Always true to its goal of better serving its community, the CIE offers opportunities such as this for board members, faculty, and select alumni to network, educate, and advise.

Since last year’s meeting, Entefy has made incredible strides. We were thrilled for this year’s invitation to update CIE alumni and advisors.

Entefy’s momentum recently caught the eye of Creative Convergence Silicon Valley (C2SV) organizers, but it was our story that really sparked their interest in having Entefy at The C2SV Technology Conference.

C2SV is an annual 2-day event dedicated to celebrating the nexus of cutting-edge technologies and creative arts by featuring renowned keynotes and live performances such as industry legends Steve Wozniak and Nolan Bushnell. Needless to say, Entefy is delighted for the opportunity to take part this year.

Brienne Ghafourifar, Entefy’s co-founder, participated in the recent Founders Forum in New York on October 7-8 to discuss the role of technology in how we communicate and interact.

Founders Forums, dubbed “The Davos of Tech” by The Guardian, are highly selective invitation-only gatherings of leading digital and technology entrepreneurs from around the world.  The events are an opportunity for great minds such as Arianna Huffington, Richard Branson, and Reid Hoffman to engage in open debate, brainstorming, and problem solving alongside those on a similar journey.

PALO ALTO, Calif., September 8, 2015 – Entefy, the company that is rewriting the code of communication to simplify your digital world, announces the closing of a new round of funding, and is now valued at $50 million pre-Series A. The capital will be used to add key hires, expand the company’s IP portfolio, and accelerate development of Entefy’s core technology platform.

Since Entefy’s founding, the company and its sibling co-founders have experienced strong momentum and growth. Brienne Ghafourifar had initially raised $1 million for Entefy. At 17, that made Brienne the world’s youngest college graduate to raise $1 million in venture funding. Today, this figure has grown to $9.7 million, and the co-founders have gone on to author several key pending patents—in communication, privacy, security, and data intelligence—and to attract a world-class board of directors and group of strategic advisors.

“We are incredibly humbled and honored by the tremendous support from our investors and advisors in this round,” said CEO and co-founder Alston Ghafourifar. “Most importantly, we’ve gained high-profile partners who share our vision of simplifying the way people communicate and interact in the modern world.”

Currently, smartphone owners interact with others through an average of 7.4 social/communication applications. In addition, the applications required to interact with IoT devices are growing at a phenomenal rate, forming an increasingly chaotic digital world that is becoming more challenging for people to manage. Entefy will free people from devices, protocols, and services that dictate the way we communicate by providing a more unified and natural way to interact.

“Entefy is thrilled by the excitement from our investors,” says co-founder Brienne. “Their support is testament to Entefy’s vision—changing digital communication and interaction forever.”

ABOUT ENTEFY
Entefy is rewriting the code of communication and digital interaction. We’re introducing the first technology to give you seamless access to your conversations, connections, smart things, and services from all of your favorite devices. Our Universal Interaction Engine provides a simple, focused communication experience that puts you at the heart of your hyper-connected world. Entefy is based in Palo Alto, California.

Brienne Ghafourifar, Entefy’s co-founder, keynotes Rotary’s ELC 2015, a conference that provides young entrepreneurs hands-on understanding of building a business in the free enterprise system.

We were all thrilled by the opportunity. At Entefy, we know young entrepreneurs are essential to solving some of the world’s most pressing problems and creating a new age of global engagement. After all, it’s today’s entrepreneurs who are most poised to take the first crucial steps to change tomorrow.

Highlights from VLAB’s Young Women Entrepreneurs Under 30 event. You can catch the full video here.

What does it take to build a product? Lead a team? Raise capital? Handle setbacks? What does it take to change the world?

Chosen as one of VLAB’s Young Women Entrepreneurs Under 30, Entefy’s co-founder, Brienne Ghafourifar, shares her unique experience as a female entrepreneur and the passion that it takes to propel Entefy forward.

About VLAB: VLAB is a joint project of the MIT Enterprise Forum and is sponsored by the Stanford University Office of Technology Licensing, and the Alumni Association of Stanford’s Graduate School of Business. VLAB is officially called the MIT Enterprise Forum of the Bay Area and is part of an international organization with 26 chapters throughout the U.S., Canada, Europe, and Asia.