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- Sonali Pattnaik@sonalipnaikFounder/COO · Lighthouz AIS24B2B · Atlanta
- Srijan Kumar@srijankediaFounder/CEO · Lighthouz AIS24B2B · Atlanta
FOUNDERROLEBATCHINDUSTRYLOCATIONTEAMX_url
Sonali PattnaikLighthouz AIFounder/COOSummer 2024B2BAtlanta, United States8https://x.com/sonalipnaikSrijan KumarLighthouz AIFounder/CEOSummer 2024B2BAtlanta, United States8https://x.com/srijankedia
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Srijan Kumar
Founder/CEO·Lighthouz AI
PRIMARY INFO
RoleFounder/CEO
Team size8
BatchSummer 2024
LocationAtlanta, United States
Company statusActive
StageEarly
BIO
I'm an award-winning AI professor-turned-entrepreneur. Over the last 14 years, my AI systems have been used at Meta, Wikipedia, The Home Depot, and Flipkart. I have been a Georgia Tech professor and worked at Google, Stanford, CMU, and UMD, and IIT. I pioneered dynamic graph neural nets. I have written 60+ AI publications w 6000+ citations. Awards won: NSF CAREER, Forbes 30u30, Kavli Fellow. I'm building AI agents to do AP and AR in logistics, powered by dynamic knowledge graphs.
Ex-company, school and discipline below are derived from this bio. Nothing is inferred when the bio is missing.
BACKGROUND
CredentialsForbes 30U30
DisciplineResearcherKeyword match from the bio text, not a classifier.
TRACK RECORD
First YC company on record
COMPANY CONTEXT
Lighthouz AI
Freight bill audits, AP, AR automation for freight brokers with…
Co-foundersSonali Pattnaik@sonalipnaik
