
Karthik Suresh
Co-Founder at Ignition
Karthik Suresh is the Co-Founder of Ignition, a collaborative hub for Marketing & Product teams to plan, execute, and measure the GTM side of launching.
Karthik is a product and a technology leader with experience as a founder, an early startup hire, and a key player in defining product strategy, and finding a market fit. He has extensive experience building products in consumer, enterprise and the data domain across early stage and established companies.
Karthik’s reach is over 5k, and he would be happy to let his network know to listen in!
- Product
- Tech
- Entrepreneur
- 📍San Francisco, CA
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- Entrepreneurship
- Venture funding
- NFTs & Crypto
- Tech
- B2C
- High Growth Startups
- Big Tech
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Previously at Facebook, Karthik led acquisitions for Portal as a Product Manager for Growth at Facebook Reality Labs and before that, he built rich consumer product experiences for various trending and cultural moments such as Halloween, NFL Kickoff, Thanksgiving on the FB App as Product Manager for Hashtags/Cultural Relevance (FB Search).
Prior to Facebook, Karthik was the Head of Product at Craft (https://craft.co). He joined Craft  pre-seed (Employee #2), wore multiple hats, and led product and operations at the firm from zero to one.
Karthik also founded London-based fintech startup Alterest that was part of SeedCamp’s 2016 cohort, and spent six years as a VP for an algorithmic and high-frequency trading firm in New York.
Karthik is a graduate of the Carnegie Mellon and London Business School.
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Karthik Suresh
Co-Founder and CTO at DoubleO.ai
- Product
- AI
- Entrepreneur
- 📍San Francisco, CA
Karthik is the Co-founder and CTO of DoubleO.ai, a platform making it ridiculously simple for non-technical teams to automate complex workflows using AI agents.
He led products at Facebook and Craft, guiding them from initial concepts to widespread adoption. His approach is shaped by a blend of Silicon Valley’s creative culture, Wall Street’s rigor, and a global perspective gained from working across continents.
He specializes in translating complex technology into products people actually want to use and believes even the most intense product builds can be energizing and fun. Karthik is always up for conversations about AI innovation and product challenges.
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LET'S TALK ABOUT REVOLUTIONIZING PRODUCT SUCCESS:
- AI Agents and Workflow Automation
- Democratizing AI for Non-Technical Users
- Innovations in No-Code AI Solutions
- Entrepreneurship in the AI Era
- Transitioning from Product Management to AI Solutions
- Building AI-Driven SaaS Platforms
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Previously at Facebook, Karthik led acquisitions for Portal as a Product Manager for Growth at Facebook Reality Labs and before that, he built rich consumer product experiences for various trending and cultural moments such as Halloween, NFL Kickoff, Thanksgiving on the FB App as Product Manager for Hashtags/Cultural Relevance (FB Search).
Prior to Facebook, Karthik was the Head of Product at Craft (https://craft.co). He joined Craft  pre-seed (Employee #2), wore multiple hats, and led product and operations at the firm from zero to one.
Karthik also founded London-based fintech startup Alterest that was part of SeedCamp’s 2016 cohort, and spent six years as a VP for an algorithmic and high-frequency trading firm in New York.
Karthik is a graduate of the Carnegie Mellon and London Business School.
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Karthik Suresh
Co-Founder and CTO at DoubleO.ai
- 📍San Francisco, CA
- Product
- AI
- Entrepreneur
Karthik is the Co-founder and CTO of DoubleO.ai, a platform making it ridiculously simple for non-technical teams to automate complex workflows using AI agents.
He led products at Facebook and Craft, guiding them from initial concepts to widespread adoption. His approach is shaped by a blend of Silicon Valley’s creative culture, Wall Street’s rigor, and a global perspective gained from working across continents.
He specializes in translating complex technology into products people actually want to use and believes even the most intense product builds can be energizing and fun. Karthik is always up for conversations about AI innovation and product challenges.
read more
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LET'S TALK ABOUT REVOLUTIONIZING PRODUCT SUCCESS:
- AI Agents and Workflow Automation
- Democratizing AI for Non-Technical Users
- Innovations in No-Code AI Solutions
- Entrepreneurship in the AI Era
- Transitioning from Product Management to AI Solutions
- Building AI-Driven SaaS Platforms
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Previously at Facebook, Karthik led acquisitions for Portal as a Product Manager for Growth at Facebook Reality Labs and before that, he built rich consumer product experiences for various trending and cultural moments such as Halloween, NFL Kickoff, Thanksgiving on the FB App as Product Manager for Hashtags/Cultural Relevance (FB Search).
Prior to Facebook, Karthik was the Head of Product at Craft (https://craft.co). He joined Craft  pre-seed (Employee #2), wore multiple hats, and led product and operations at the firm from zero to one.
Karthik also founded London-based fintech startup Alterest that was part of SeedCamp’s 2016 cohort, and spent six years as a VP for an algorithmic and high-frequency trading firm in New York.
Karthik is a graduate of the Carnegie Mellon and London Business School.
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“During the discussion, Karthik shared insights into the following: How his role at Ignition has changed in the past year, his preferred AI stack, what AI features he’s currently working on, and the challenges with taking LLM applications from prototype to production.”
“Karthik Suresh, CTO, explains how Ignition uses MongoDB Atlas Vector Search to quickly go-to-market.”Â
Timeline
2025 - Present
DoubleO.ai
Co-Founder & CTO

2020 - Present
Multiple Startups
Advisor
2020 - 2021
Product Manager

2019 - 2020
Forbes Technology Council
Official Member

2016 - 2020
Craft.co
Head of Product

2015 - 2016
Alterest
Co-Founder & COO

2009 - 2015
KCG Holdings, Inc.
Vice President, Engineering

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