Kunal Chopra

Three-time CEO · Board chairman

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Three-time CEO · Board chairman

Every company is about to become an AI company. I've rebuilt three.

Three-time CEO across public markets, private equity and venture. I create enterprise value by rebuilding companies around the technology shift their industry hasn't absorbed yet: a Nasdaq turnaround from $2 to $52 a share, a PE platform re-rated from 10× to 25× EBITDA, and now an AI-native company built from zero. I write about what AI changes in the operating model and work with the boards and operators doing it.

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Kunal Chopra
Nasdaq CEO · $2 → $52PE platform · 10× → 25× EBITDA$270M+ raised · 5 acquisitionsBoard chairmanMicrosoft · Amazon GM · P&L to $500MAI-native CEO, built from zero

The three chairs

Transformation across ownership models.

01

Public markets

Kaspien · Nasdaq: KSPN · CEO 2019–2022

$2 → $52

Share price

  • Revenue from −28% to +20% growth
  • Built the software platform that became the margin engine
  • Four consecutive profitable quarters
  • $1B+ lifetime marketplace sales
  • Became CEO of the Nasdaq-listed parent
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02

Private equity

Beckett · PE-backed · CEO 2022–2024

10x → 25x

EBITDA multiple

  • $200M+ capital secured
  • Five products launched: Collect, Vault, data platform, beckett.com, NFT
  • ~$40M SaaS ARR built
  • Recurring revenue mix 5% → 20%+
  • Card-grading share 5% → 10%
  • Three acquisitions
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03

Venture

Certivo · CEO 2024–Present

$6.3M

Raised

  • Investors: Fortive, Suffolk Technologies, Pioneer Square Ventures, AI Studio Fund
  • Built CORA, the AI compliance assistant, from the first line
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$270M+ raised across debt and equity · 5 acquisitions · Amazon, Microsoft, Groupon and Unikrn before that.

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Core point of view

AI will reorganize the enterprise — not simply automate its tasks.

01

AI and industrial transformation

02

Building AI-native products

03

Building technology companies through change

Featured insights

Ideas from the work in progress.

Split share card: on the left 'A better model' struck through in gold over warm paper; on the right, on navy, 'The workflow it encodes' with 'workflow' in gold italic.

Boring AI

AI startups win boring industries by encoding workflows, not by owning better models

What the forward-deployed engineer does mechanically inside a manufacturer or a freight yard, and the one test that separates a product company from a consultancy with a nicer front end.

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kunal-chopra.com

AI returns show up only in decisions the P&L already prices

Why hours saved never reach the income statement, what the attribution problem looks like in the field's own terms, and the rollout design that lets a CFO book an AI return without spinning a story.

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GSD Venture Studios

Turning AI from a pilot into a measurable driver of enterprise value

Where the profitable automation projects actually sit in a physical-industry company: the unglamorous back-office workflows, starting with supply-chain compliance, and how to run them to the P&L.

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All insights

Current 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.

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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.