2x founder
Karan Grover
CEO at Kanu AI | Y Combinator & a16z speedrun Alumni | a16z speedrun Scout
Experience
Career
2025Speedrun
Scout · San Francisco Bay Area · 2025 – Present
2025Kanu AI
FounderFounder · Seattle, Washington, United States · 2025 – Present
2024Amazon
Senior Machine Learning Engineer · Seattle, Washington, United States · 2024 – 2025
- 2022
Amazon
Software Development Engineer II · Seattle, Washington, United States · 2022 – 2024
2021Stealth Startup
Co-founderCo-Founder (YC W22) · Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada · 2021 – 2022
2021DoorDash
Software Engineer · Seattle, Washington, United States · 2021 – 2022
- 2020
Amazon
Software Development Engineer II · Bellevue, WA · 2020 – 2021
- 2019
Amazon
Software Development Engineer · Seattle, Washington · 2019 – 2020
2018Deloitte Canada
Intern Business Technology Analyst · Toronto, Canada Area · 2018
- 2018
Amazon
Intern Software Engineer · Seattle, Washington · 2018
2016The University of British Columbia
Undergraduate Research Assistant; Computer Science · Vancouver, Canada Area · 2016 – 2017
2016Best Buy Canada
Software Engineer Intern · Burnaby, BC · 2016
- 2015
SoundVision
Software Engineer · Vancouver, British Columbia · 2015 – 2016
Bio
I’m a three-time founder, YC W22 alum, former Machine Learning Engineer. My first company, helped blind individuals “hear” their surroundings through 3D audio using mounted sensors. It beat MIT and 843 global teams to win the Ericsson Innovation Awards. After that, I co-founded Trueplace (YC W22), a proptech startup that worked with one of Canada’s largest banks. We helped Canadians buy their first home by providing a portion of their down payment in exchange for a share of future value. At Amazon, I worked on the AGI enterprise fine-tuning team, built custom ML models for large-scale recommendation systems, and was part of the team that delivered 4-hour Amazon delivery in the US and Japan. At DoorDash, I drove significant cost savings by automating refund decisioning between users and merchants. Now, I’m channeling everything I’ve learned into Kanu AI with the mission to make building and deploying software as easy as asking for it.