Kedar Kulkarni is the co-founder and CEO of HyperVerge, an AI start-up specializing in customer onboarding and identity verification, backed by New Enterprise Associates (NEA), Milliways Ventures, and Dallas Venture Capital Group.

Under his leadership, HyperVerge has achieved $18M+ ARR, while raising only $1.1M in funding. HyperVerge Identity Verification have been used to process 1 billion digital KYCs and fraud checks across 381 clients.

An Indian Institute of Technology, Madras alumnus, Kedar founded the Computer Vision Group (CVG) in 2009, which represented India at the International Aerial Robotics Competition and collaborated with Indian industries. This team later evolved into HyperVerge. He also founded Lema Labs, an education group that has trained 15,000+ students in robotics, fostering future innovators.

Kedar has been learning yoga for 12 years is deeply committed to helping build atleast 100 conscious businesses in the world. These are businesses that are built to last beyond 1 generation and combine the motives of profit and contribution to community. Residing in Bangalore, he loves to mentor young entrepreneurs.