Karthik Kumar
Founder of Amplify Data
Karthik Kumar
Founder of Amplify Data
New York, New York
Overview
Work Experience
Co-Founder and CEO
2022 - Current
Unlock the full value of data through data-sharing. Find out how with Amplify!
Advisor
2022
VP Finance & Operations
2017 - 2022
Founding executive-team member working to build, lead, and launch the Decision Intelligence company.
Board Member
2020
Catalyzing the fusion frontier!
Board Observer
2016 - 2017
Leading online-procurement and strategic sourcing platform. Acquired by Workday for $540M (Nov 2019).
Board Observer/Advisor
2015 - 2017
Market leading Sales Readiness platform
Venture Investor
2015 - 2017
Investor, Advisor, and Advocate for early stage enterprise software companies, with a focus on horizontal SaaS software, Big Data middleware, and AI enabling technologies. Worked closely at the Series A/B stage with breakout companies like Scout, Plaid, Mindtickle, Pilot AI, Appsheet and more. NEA is one of the largest VC firms in the world, with $24B+ under management and 600+ exits across four decades of history
Technology Investment Banking
2013 - 2015
Advised on multiple transactions in the software, communications, and semiconductor verticals
Independent Researcher & Facility Assistant
2009 - 2013
Published research on phase-change memory nanowire systems for use in electronic memory applications and trained users on Scanning Electron Microscopes (SEM) operating procedure
Co-Founder
2011 - 2012
Multi-campus platform to connect college students with local restaurants and student shows
Education
Latest Articles
Why I joined Georgia Tech’s OMSCS program
Talks about Education, Omscs and Georgia Tech
Design Patterns in Real Life
Talks about Software Development, Design Patterns and Creational Patterns
Indexing and Searching Tweets with Lucene
Talks about Apache Lucene, Tweet and indexing tweets