Summary
Anand Kulkarni is a founder and CEO with 11+ years building AI-first companies that turn complex workflows and legacy code into actionable specifications and production software. As founder of CoreStory and previously Crowdbotics and LeadGenius, he has repeatedly combined crowd computing, machine learning, and rigorous optimization to automate requirements extraction and accelerate development cycles by roughly 50%. A former NSF graduate research fellow and UC Berkeley PhD candidate, Anand has published widely in ACM, AAAI and IEEE and helped pioneer agentic workflow design through projects like Turkomatic and MobileWorks. His startups have served Fortune 500 customers and created fair digital work for hundreds of globally distributed contributors. Comfortable at the intersection of theory and product, he pairs deep expertise in algorithms, operations research, and computational geometry with hands-on CEO leadership. Based in Berkeley, he is known for applying academic rigor to solve practical engineering bottlenecks in software modernization.
11 years of coding experience
9 years of employment as a software developer
PhD Candidate Industrial Engineering and Operations Research Computer Science, PhD Candidate Industrial Engineering and Operations Research Computer Science at University of California, Berkeley
Entrepreneurship, Entrepreneurship at Y Combinator