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Karthik Kannan

Co-founder & CTO, Envision

Karthik Kannan

Karthik is the co-founder and CTO of Envision, building AI that helps blind, low-vision, and elderly people navigate the visual world — from a scene-reading app to smart glasses now used across 200 countries in 50 languages. He built the entire AI and product stack from scratch over eight years, shipping across mobile, wearables, and web. Envision has reached 800K+ users, processed 300M+ documents through OCR, and counts Stevie Wonder among the people it serves.

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