Purva Tendulkar
CEO & Founder, Quest
Purva Tendulkar is the CEO and founder of Quest, a dating app based in San Francisco. She builds technology that helps people connect and express themselves authentically.
Previously, Purva was a Computer Science PhD student at Columbia University, where she worked on generative models of how people move, interact and behave, and published at top-tier computer vision conferences (CVPR, ICCV, ECCV). She was an Apple Scholar in AI/ML and a Columbia Presidential Fellow, and dropped out in 2025 to build Quest.
Before Columbia, she earned her master’s in Computer Science at Georgia Tech, where she first explored AI as a creative partner for people, in projects ranging from artistic typography to dance.