Karthik is a Partner at IVP, a venture firm that leads early and growth stage rounds in startups across B2B software, consumer, fintech, and digital tech. IVP has backed companies like Twitter, Snap, Discord, Datadog, CrowdStrike, UiPath, and Dropbox. Some companies that Karthik works with include DeepL, Dream Games, Niantic, CrowdStrike, Attentive, and Numeric. In his free time, Karthik is a big sports fan (Brooklyn Nets and New York Giants), loves to play any racquet sports, and enjoys spending time with his wife. And he is recently a first time dad. Karthik was also a 30 under 30 Forbes list winner.