Anand KulkarniFounder

United States - Berkeley, California

Anand is CEO and founder of CoreStory, the world’s leading AI modernization and spec-driven development agent. CoreStory enables enterprises to reverse-engineer legacy codebases into specifications, and continuously accelerate software development.

Corestory outperforms leading foundational models at the core problem of extracting requirements from code, and accelerates development cycles by 50% via AI-driven requirements-driven development.

Anand has been named as one of Forbes Magazine's "30 under 30" Top 30 Entrepreneurs Under 30. Anand has published over a dozen papers in ACM, AAAI and IEEE magazines, journals, and conferences. Anand previously held a National Science Foundation graduate research fellowship in mathematics. He holds degrees in Industrial Engineering and Operations Research, Mathematics, and Physics from UC Berkeley.


Anand was previously co-founder of LeadGenius, a Y Combinator-backed startup using human computation and deep learning to automate account-based marketing (ABM). LeadGenius poweres the sales and marketing organizations of Fortune 500 customers like Google, eBay, and Box. In conjunction with nonprofits like the World Bank, LeadGenius generates fairly-paid digital employment for over 500 individuals in 40 countries.


Specialties: Crowd computing, machine learning, theory of algorithms, operations research, linear and nonlinear optimization, microwork, computational geometry, mathematical modeling, robotics, telerobotics