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 — January 2026

    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 — September 2025

    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 — August 2025

    Built AI agents for real estate market intelligence, implementing ingestion and broker knowledge extraction pipelines. Led product marketing and growth, defining positioning and GTM strategy.

    • AI/ML
    • Product + Growth
    • Real Estate
    • Crypto/Web3
  6. 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
  7. 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
  8. November 2024 — July 2025

    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