Cofounder/CEO
Persist AI
Karthik is the CEO of Persist AI. A company that’s using AI x Robotics to accelerate drug formulation development. He previously received his PhD from the University of Utah, where his research focused on sustained drug delivery to the brain. Most recently he held an automation role at Zymergen, where he helped develop a modular and reconfigurable automation lab for synthetic biology. Persist AI is a venture backed company supported by YCombinator, Spero Ventures, 2048, Innospark.