# Anand Kulkarni

> Anand Kulkarni is the CEO and co-founder of CoreStory, a Berkeley-based AI company that decodes legacy enterprise codebases - turning decades-old COBOL and other ancient software into living, queryable specifications. A Forbes 30 Under 30 honoree and NSF PhD fellow out of UC Berkeley, he previously co-founded LeadGenius (Y Combinator S11) and built Crowdbotics into a platform serving Fortune 500 companies and U.S. government agencies. In October 2025, CoreStory raised a $32 million Series A to modernize the world's mission-critical legacy software.

- **Role:** CEO at CoreStory
- **Organizations:** CoreStory, Crowdbotics, LeadGenius, Oasis Tooling, UC Berkeley
- **Nationality:** American
- **Education:** Graduate studies (NSF PhD Fellow) - Industrial Engineering and Operations Research, Mathematics, University of California, Berkeley, B.S. - Industrial Engineering & Operations Research, Mathematics, Physics, University of California, Berkeley
- **Known for:** Named Forbes 30 Under 30 Top Entrepreneurs, National Science Foundation Graduate Research Fellow in mathematics at UC Berkeley, Published 12+ peer-reviewed papers in ACM, AAAI, and IEEE on polytope theory, crowdsourcing, and robotics

## Career timeline

- **2001** — Received National Merit Scholar status
- **2005** — Won Outstanding Paper Award and Ben Fusaro Prize at Mathematical Contest in Modeling for polytope traffic analysis research
- **2006** — iCare project won Greatest Social Impact Award at UC Berkeley Technology Breakthrough Competition
- **2008-2011** — NSF Graduate Research Fellow in mathematics at UC Berkeley; published 12+ papers in ACM, AAAI, IEEE on polytope theory, crowdsourcing, and robotics
- **2011** — Co-founded LeadGenius (then MobileWorks), accepted into Y Combinator Summer 2011 batch; served as co-founder and Chief Scientist
- **2013** — Named to Forbes 30 Under 30 list
- **2014-2016** — LeadGenius raised $20M+ in venture funding; served Fortune 500 clients including Google, eBay, and Box with AI-powered account-based marketing
- **2016-2017** — Algorithms Scientist at Oasis Tooling, working on computational geometry algorithms and neural network architectures
- **2017** — Founded Crowdbotics, an AI-powered rapid application development platform
- **2020-2024** — Crowdbotics scaled to 200-300% annual revenue growth, $20.7M revenue, 175-person team, serving Fortune 500 and U.S. government agencies
- **2025-09** — Rebranded Crowdbotics to CoreStory; launched AI code intelligence platform publicly
- **2025-10** — CoreStory raised $32M Series A led by Tribeca Venture Partners, NEA, and SineWave Ventures

## Achievements

- Named Forbes 30 Under 30 Top Entrepreneurs
- National Science Foundation Graduate Research Fellow in mathematics at UC Berkeley
- Published 12+ peer-reviewed papers in ACM, AAAI, and IEEE on polytope theory, crowdsourcing, and robotics
- Co-founded LeadGenius (Y Combinator S11), raised $20M+, served Google, eBay, Box
- Founded Crowdbotics, scaled to $20.7M ARR with 175-person team and Fortune 500 clients
- Raised $32M Series A for CoreStory to modernize global legacy enterprise software
- National Merit Scholar (2001)
- Won Ben Fusaro Prize and Outstanding Paper Award at Mathematical Contest in Modeling (2005)
- iCare project won Greatest Social Impact Award at UC Berkeley Technology Breakthrough Competition (2006)

## Latest updates

- **2025-10** — CoreStory raised $32 million Series A led by Tribeca Venture Partners, NEA, and SineWave Ventures, with participation from Samsung Next, Singtel Innov8, Harrison Metal, Nimble Partners, and Alumni Ventures
- **2025-09** — Rebranded Crowdbotics to CoreStory and officially launched the AI code intelligence platform, announcing it had already signed enterprise customers
- **2025-09** — CoreStory announced integration with Cognition's Devin AI coding agent to unlock legacy code analysis capabilities

## Links

- Website: https://corestory.ai
- LinkedIn: http://www.linkedin.com/in/anandpkulkarni
- YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XFf1DzxqZBU

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Last updated: 2026-05-14