Sam Karu

Co-founder & CEO at Logical (YC F25) | Ex-NVIDIA

Co-founder

Logical· Fall 2025 🇺🇸 San Francisco, California, United States

in LinkedIn 𝕏 @SamKaru_

2025Co-founder· Logical (YC F25)

Founder · since 2025

Company

Logical (YC F25)

Role

Co-founder & CEO

current

Stage

—

no public source

Raised

—

no public source

Based

San Francisco, California, United States

current

Founder / co-founder — the company's markEmployee / research role

Source: LinkedIn work history

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Logical

A proactive desktop copilot. Clippy, but actually good.

Fall 2025

Experience

Career

Logical (YC F25)
Co-founder
Co-founder & CEO · San Francisco, California, United States · 2025 – Present
2025
NVIDIA
Senior Software Engineer, Deep Learning Inference Workflows · Santa Clara, California, United States · 2024 – 2025
2024
NVIDIA
Software Engineer, Deep Learning Inference Workflows · Santa Clara, California, United States · 2022 – 2024
2022
UCLA Henry Samueli School of Engineering and Applied Science
Graduate Student Researcher · Los Angeles, California, United States · 2019 – 2021
2019
Qualcomm
Research Intern - Wireless Systems R&D · San Diego, California, United States · 2021
2021
Nokia Bell Labs
Research Intern · Antwerp, Flemish Region, Belgium · 2017 – 2018
2017

Bio

Sam is a co-founder and CEO of Logical. He was a PhD dropout from UCLA before joining NVIDIA. At UCLA, Sam conducted research on AI applications in wireless and cellular domains, across both discriminative and generative models. At NVIDIA, he worked on AI inference and model optimizations for specific hardware. Sam is the best performing Sri Lankan in the history of both the International Physics Olympiad and Asian Physics Olympiad.