Public markets
Kaspien · Nasdaq: KSPN · CEO 2019–2022
$2 → $52
Share price
- Revenue from −28% to +20% growth
- Four consecutive profitable quarters
- $1B+ lifetime marketplace sales
- Became CEO of the Nasdaq-listed parent
Kunal Chopra
Three-time CEO · Board chairman
Three-time CEO · Board chairman
Every company is about to become an AI company. I've rebuilt three.
As CEO in public markets, private equity and venture, I've taken analog businesses to software and built an AI-native company from zero. The rebuild is the same whether you make things or already sell software: AI changes what the company is, not just what it automates. I write about what it takes and work with the boards and operators doing it.
Nasdaq-listed CEOPE platform transformation0-to-1 AI-native founderBoard chairmanAmazon · Microsoft34 countries launched
The three chairs
Transformation across ownership models.
Private equity
Beckett · PE-backed · CEO 2022–2023
10x → 25x
EBITDA multiple
- $200M+ capital secured
- ~$40M SaaS ARR built
- Recurring revenue mix 5% → 20%+
- Market share 5% → 10%
- Three acquisitions
Venture
Certivo · CEO 2024–Present
$6.3M
Raised · Backed by Fortive
- Investors: Fortive, Suffolk Technologies, Pioneer Square Ventures, AI Studio Fund
- AI-native from the first line
$270M+ raised across debt and equity · 5 acquisitions · Amazon, Microsoft, Groupon and Unikrn before that.
Covered in
Business WireGeekWireTech StartupsThe Spokesman-ReviewPR NewswireGlobeNewswireCNBCThe recordCore point of view
AI will reorganize the enterprise — not simply automate its tasks.
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AI and industrial transformation
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Product, data, compliance, and supply-chain intelligence
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Building technology companies through change
Featured insights
Ideas from the work in progress.
Shift AI Podcast
AI Agents as the Newest Members of the Team
How AI agents are evolving from assistants into teammates and automating product compliance for manufacturers.
Explore insightAI features and AI-native are not the same thing.
Systems where AI does the work, not just assists with it.
Explore insightForbes Technology Council
Hallucinations: Why You Might Be Using The Wrong Kind Of AI
Generative and deterministic AI are built for different work. In regulated environments, a system that can fabricate a plausible answer is the wrong kind of system.
Explore insightCurrent work
Building the intelligence layer for product compliance.
CEO · Certivo · 2024–Present
Building Certivo, an AI-native platform helping manufacturers transform product compliance from a manual process into an intelligent operating system.
Selected engagements
A practical voice for consequential moments.
Board and governance background is set out on the board page. For anything else, email kunal@kunal-chopra.com.