Kartikesh Mishra
FounderCofounder and CTO at Lamina Labs
San Francisco, California, United States
FoundedLamina Labs · YC
About
Kartikesh Mishra is a co-founder at Lamina Labs and holds a degree in Electrical Engineering and Computer Science from MIT, with both a bachelor's (2024) and master's degree (2025).
Cofounder and CTO at Lamina LabsYC X26
Intro paths
Kartikesh went through Y Combinator (Spring 2026) — any YC alum in your network can reach them through the YC community.
Their group partner at YC was Pete Koomen, General Partner at Y Combinator — the partner who ran Lamina Labs's batch and knows the company first-hand. YC profile ↗
In turn, Kartikesh can intro founders to Lamina Labs's investors below.
Lamina Labs's investors · 2
Co-founders at Lamina Labs
Experience
- Lamina LabsCofounder & CTOcurrent2026 — presentSan Francisco Bay Area
- Abacus.AISoftware Engineer2026San Francisco Bay Area
- INFINIRATE, INC.Founding Engineer2025 — 2026San Francisco, California, United States
- MIT Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence Laboratory (CSAIL)Graduate Research Assistant2025Cambridge, Massachusetts, United States
- MIT EECSGraduate Teaching Assistant - Intro to ML (6.3900)2024 — 2025Cambridge, Massachusetts, United States
- MIT EECSTeaching Assistant - Advances in Computer Vision (6.8300/1)2024Cambridge, Massachusetts, United States
- MIT EECSML Lab Assistant - Intro to Machine Learning (6.036)2023Cambridge, Massachusetts, United States
- Massachusetts Institute of TechnologyUndergraduate Research Assistant2022 — 2023Cambridge, Massachusetts, United States
- Open Learning Exchange (OLE) NepalMachine Learning Research Intern2022Kathmandu, Bāgmatī, Nepal
- MIT EECSLab Assistant2022Cambridge, Massachusetts, United States
- MIT Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence Laboratory (CSAIL)Research Assistant2021Cambridge, Massachusetts, United States
- Ek Kadam Aur - Foundation for Education and HealthHigh School Leadership Intern2021India
- Robotics Association of NepalResearch And Development Associate2020Bāgmatī, Nepal
- Robotics Association of NepalIntern2019 — 2020Nepal
- Trinity International College & SS KathmanduTeaching Assistant2018 — 2019Kathmandu, Bāgmatī, Nepal
Skills & more
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Mathematical AnalysisArtificial Intelligence (AI)Natural Language Processing (NLP)Deep LearningApplied MathematicsData AnalysisAlgorithmsRoboticsOptical Character Recognition (OCR)Computer VisionData StructuresPython (Programming Language)Languages English · Hindi · Maithili · Nepali
- Frontend Developer (React) Certificate — HackerRank
- Problem Solving (Intermediate) — HackerRank
- Practical High Performance Computing(SuperCloud): Self-Paced — MIT Lincoln Laboratory
- JavaScript — HackerRank
- SQL — HackerRank
- Responsible Conduct of Research for Engineers — CITI Program
- Python (Intermediate) — HackerRank
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Frequently asked questions
- Who is Kartikesh Mishra?
- Kartikesh Mishra is a co-founder at Lamina Labs and holds a degree in Electrical Engineering and Computer Science from MIT, with both a bachelor's (2024) and master's degree (2025).
- Where does Kartikesh Mishra work?
- Kartikesh Mishra is Cofounder and CTO of Lamina Labs.
- What companies did Kartikesh Mishra found?
- Kartikesh Mishra founded Lamina Labs.
- Where did Kartikesh Mishra go to school?
- Kartikesh Mishra studied at Massachusetts Institute of Technology (Master of Engineering - MEng, Computer Science); Massachusetts Institute of Technology (Bachelor's degree, Computer Science and Engineering); Trinity International College (High School Diploma, CIE ALevel).
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