# Karthik Srinivasan

> Karthik Srinivasan is the CTO of Studio at Forum Ventures, the AI venture studio co-building the next generation of B2B companies from concept to company. With 20+ years of product engineering across Travelocity, Getty Images, and his own startup Pixibo, Karthik brings a rare hybrid of hands-on builder instinct and startup architect thinking to a studio that has already launched 17 companies - helping domain experts turn ideas into fundable businesses at sprint speed without the usual technical debt hangover.

- **Role:** CTO (Studio) at Forum Ventures
- **Organizations:** Forum Ventures, Pixibo, Zuva.ai, Getty Images, Travelocity
- **Nationality:** Indian-Canadian
- **Education:** Master of Science, Computing Science (Big Data), Simon Fraser University
- **Known for:** CTO of the Forum Ventures AI Studio that has launched 17+ companies with 63% achieving follow-on funding within 12 months, Co-founded Pixibo, one of the early conversational AI personalization companies, acquired or wound down by 2020, Built and open-sourced SprayLearning (154 GitHub stars) - a Scala machine learning framework

## Career timeline

- **2007-2010** — Senior Software Engineer at Travelocity
- **2010-2016** — Full Stack Engineer at Getty Images
- **2016** — Co-founded Pixibo - Conversational AI personalized fitting adviser (Singapore)
- **2016-2020** — Co-Founder and CTO at Pixibo
- **2020-2022** — VP of Engineering at Zuva.ai
- **2022-present** — CTO, Studio at Forum Ventures (New York)

## Achievements

- CTO of the Forum Ventures AI Studio that has launched 17+ companies with 63% achieving follow-on funding within 12 months
- Co-founded Pixibo, one of the early conversational AI personalization companies, acquired or wound down by 2020
- Built and open-sourced SprayLearning (154 GitHub stars) - a Scala machine learning framework
- Developed a zero-to-one engineering playbook for AI-native B2B startups balancing speed with clean architecture
- Angel investor in at least one startup
- Forum Ventures raised $20M Fund II for AI Venture Studio expansion under his technical leadership

## Latest updates

- **2024-01** — Forum Ventures raised $20M to expand AI Venture Studio (Fund II), targeting 30 new AI-native B2B companies
- **2022-01** — Joined Forum Ventures as CTO of Studio, bringing VP-of-Engineering experience from Zuva.ai

## Links

- Website: https://karthik20522.github.io/
- LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/ks-dev/
- GitHub: https://github.com/karthik20522

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Last updated: 2026-05-06