Kartik is a Co-founder of EPIC World, leading system design and data initiatives. Kartik aims to elevate the economic vibrancy of Entrepreneurial Households on their behalf. His expertise in achieving scale leveraging data and products is critical to EPIC World’s vision to deliver value based on bottom-up insights, rather than outdated top-down models or subjective perspectives.
Over the last 25 years, Kartik has been deeply involved in the entrepreneurship ecosystem, both as an operator building and growing multiple start-ups and as an equity investor in the global tech space. He has deployed his experience in product building, business development, analytics, design thinking, and technology strategies at EPIC World.
Prior to EPIC World, Kartik was Co-founder at Adori where he helped create patented technology spanning signal processing to artificial intelligence to deliver products that reimagined new media experiences, monetization, and analytics. Kartik established Zephyr Peacock India, an equity investment fund focused on emerging Indian enterprises, where he played a pivotal role in supporting rapidly growing small businesses across multiple sectors. Previously, he was part of the investment teams at Ventureast TeNet, a first-of-its-kind incubation VC fund that focused on technology solutions for rural India, and at Toucan Capital, a US-based seed stage fund that commercialized deep tech.
He began his career as a data and systems engineer at NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory analyzing and visualizing the Solar System. In the late 90s, he took his first step as an entrepreneur founding one of the earliest internet-driven transaction processing companies in India focused on family businesses.
Kartik graduated with a Masters in Computer and Electrical Engineering from the University of Maryland. He obtained a Bachelors in Computer Science and Mathematics from Drake University. He passionately explores space, media, architecture, and cuisine.
