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Rishi Kulkarni

Co-Founder at Pitcrew

Product ManagementSaaSAI/Agentic workflowsFinTech/WealthTechGo-to-Market strategyBusiness process orchestration
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About

I'm Rishi Kulkarni, Co-Founder at Pitcrew, where we're building AI-agent platforms to automate grunt work in regulated financial services. My career has been all about founding and scaling SaaS companies—I've led two startups to acquisition by Freshworks and LegalZoom, and now I'm focused on transforming RIA compliance from a chore into a competitive advantage. I'm passionate about using AI as leverage to grow businesses, not cut teams, and I believe in intuitive UX like Kanban and tickets for human-AI collaboration. I love connecting with folks in FinTech, WealthTech, and AI strategy to build the future together.

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What I can offer

  • ›Expertise in building AI-agent platforms for regulated financial services workflows
  • ›Product leadership and go-to-market strategy for SaaS
  • ›Experience founding and scaling companies to acquisition

Looking for

  • ›expanding my professional network
  • ›exploring mutual opportunities in FinTech/RIA market

Best fit for

Co-founders and team membersIndustry influencers and platforms (Michael Kitces, Kitces.com, Garry Tan, Y Combinator)Business development and partnership contacts in US FinTech/RIA market

Current Interests

AI Agents and AI strategy for enterprisesWealthTech, RIA operations, and complianceOperational excellence and workflow automationHuman-in-the-loop paradigm for AIGoogle Cloud platforms and scaling infrastructure

Background

Career

Started as Technical Specialist at Alcatel-Lucent, moved to Product Leader at LifeSize Communications, founded and led 1Click (acquired by Freshworks), Director of Product Management at Freshworks, founded and led Revvsales Inc. (acquired by LegalZoom), Vice-President & Managing Director - India at LegalZoom, now Co-Founder at Pitcrew.

Education

Bachelor of Engineering from the University of Mumbai (1993 – 1997)

Achievements

  • ›Selected for Google Cloud Market Access Program as one of 30 startups
  • ›Founded and led 1Click to acquisition by Freshworks
  • ›Founded and led Revvsales Inc. to acquisition by LegalZoom
  • ›At PitCrew, analyzed over 400+ RIA workflows with insight that over 50% is grunt work automatable via AI
  • ›Built AI Compliance Calendar Builder generating custom schedules from Form ADV

Opinions

  • AI should be used as 'leverage' to grow businesses, not reduce team sizes
  • 'Not taking risk is the risk now!' for enterprise CTOs evaluating AI
  • Chat as UI for AI has downsides; advocates for Kanban, tickets, documents as better UX
  • Compliance should be converted from manual chore into competitive advantage