Karthik Pelleti

Karthik Pelleti

Entrepreneur. Researcher. Builder.

About

Studying Finance and Math at The University of Texas at Austin. As a child, I loved to build entire empires from Legos. I now love building things slightly more advanced than Legos—like software, deeptech, and startups.

I've researched at Harvard Medical School. I sail with the Texas Longhorns Sailing Team. Currently building Ingenuity AI.

Constantly creating, learning, laughing, and connecting.

Experience

  1. January 2026 — Present

    Supporting procurement and operations through vendor evaluation, tooling requests, and supply chain documentation. Streamlining purchasing workflows and cross-functional logistics coordination. Incoming Spring '26.

    • Procurement
    • Operations
    • Vendor Management
    • Supply Chain
    • Logistics
  2. October 2025 — Present

    Founded a data intelligence company supplying trajectory and reinforcement learning (RL) training data to AI teams. Built a data engine and quality pipelines, leading engineering, product, operations, and customer delivery.

    • Data Labeling
    • ML Ops
    • Operations
    • Product
    • Hiring
  3. October 2025 — Present

    Scaling a Coinbase Ventures–backed stablecoin savings platform handling $500M+ in user transactions. Monitoring cross-chain pipelines and DeFi operations to maintain ledger accuracy and support audit readiness.

    • Operations
    • Growth
    • Crypto
    • DeFi
    • Cross-chain
  4. July 2025 — Present

    Building multimodal patient embeddings from EHR data, notes, and imaging for LLM-based clinical reasoning. Designing a privacy-safe, ontology-aligned transformer for accurate zero-shot clinical prediction.

    • Multimodal Learning
    • EHR
    • Medical Imaging
    • Transformers
    • Medical Ontologies
  5. June 2025 — Present

    Modeling financial time series with stochastic processes to improve forecasts of asset returns. Built an Apple Watch tremor pre-detection model for early Parkinson’s indicators, outperforming LSTM and ARIMA baseline benchmarks.

    • Time Series
    • Stochastic Processes
    • Machine Learning
    • Apple Watch
    • Signal Processing
  6. March 2025 — Present

    Building AI-powered investment platform for crypto/Web3, developing LLM-based due diligence tools for pre-token projects. Backed by Dr. Sriram Vishwanath with $300K in credits from Google, Solana, and Avalanche.

    • Kite
    • Avalanche
    • AI/ML
    • Venture Capital
  7. December 2024 — March 2025

    Authored a 6k+ word research memo on Dataiku. Illuminated private markets through deep-dive research and analysis of the world's best private tech companies and startups.

    • Market Research
    • Technical Analysis
    • Private Markets
    • Venture Capital
  8. December 2024 — Present

    Launched nonprofit dedicated to protecting the last 73 endangered Southern Resident orcas native to the Seattle region. Leading efforts to secure funds, restore Chinook salmon streams, and combat habitat degradation.

    • Nonprofit Leadership
    • Environmental Conservation
    • Marine Biology
    • Fundraising
  9. November 2024 — Present

    Conducting technical due diligence on YC startups for investments between $10K-$50K. Analyzing AI infrastructure, developer tools, and enterprise SaaS companies. Sourced and evaluated $150K in deals across 15 startups.

    • Due Diligence
    • Market Analysis
    • Technical Evaluation
    • Y Combinator
  10. October 2024 — Present

    Launched a stealth startup building AI-assisted developer tooling to streamline workflows for distributed applications. Operating in stealth mode through Spring 2026.

    • AI/ML
    • Developer Tooling
    • Distributed Systems
    • Cloud Computing