Saketh Kesiraju
learning by doing. doing something new everyday
- senior at nyu. hobbies: photojournalism and playing poker.
- took leave from nyu and started a tech-enabled fund formation service and ended up building SwiftLaw, then CarbonPaper, AI-powered document editor for lawyers that replaces Microsoft Word; bootstrapped to mid 5 figs ARR
- visiting researcher at Stanford CodeX, built and presented LLM-based applications to automate complex document preparation (LPAs & PPMs) and to predict litigation outcomes.
- founded NYU EEG's Entrepreneurs in Residence program. helped the best NYU startups launch and fundraise with 10 weeks of programming from General Catalyst, a16z, and top operators in AI.
portfolio companies
- Flite (backed by Jason Calcanis)
- Synaptrix Labs (backed by Underdog Labs and top neurotech angels)
- Blockhouse (backed by Soma Capital, Antler, and top operators)
- Terra (backed by Y Combinator, Floodgate, and Kyber Knight)
- PE due diligence software (founders now work at top banks)
- IRL (backed by Princeton Alumni Angels, Broad Street Angels)
- prev. founded art tech startup backed by Sotheby’s execs, built 3D sites for A$AP Rocky’s creative director, founding designer at Vienna Hypertext (now Aqua Voice, YC W24)
projects
people I admire: steve jobs, kanye west (pre 2022), martin margiela, quentin tarantino, dieter rams, marco pierre white, zlatan, john mcafee, zuck, parker conrad and masayoshi son.