
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!
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- 📍San Francisco, CA
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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 at Ignition
- Product
- Tech
- Entrepreneur
- 📍San Francisco, CA
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!
read more
LET'S TALK ABOUT PRODUCT MANAGEMENT
- 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.
BOOK NOW FOR your podcast
Karthik Suresh
Co-Founder at Ignition
- 📍San Francisco, CA
- Product
- Tech
- Entrepreneur
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!
read more
LET'S TALK ABOUT PRODUCT MANAGEMENT
- Entrepreneurship
- Venture funding
- NFTs & Crypto
- Tech
- B2C
- High Growth Startups
- Big Tech
--
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.
As seen on
Timeline
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
Ask me
What is it like building a company from Zero to One. |
What is the difference between building products at an early stage company vs an established one? |
How do you position a company for venture funding? |
Why are product launches hard and what tools exist to make the GTM process easier? |