About Us
Strum AI targets the critical nerve center of every enterprise—its supply chain. Rising complexity across products, markets, pricing, and regulations, coupled with higher customer expectations, has exposed the fragility in global supply chains. According to industry data, inventory levels have surged over 40% across sectors, while growth and return on capital have stagnated. While CEOs are demanding more from their supply chains, teams are bogged down by manual firefighting, coordination, and outdated tools—killing decision speed and quality. We are building an AI-first platform to address this problem with the mission to significantly lower the barrier for any enterprise to adopt algorithm-driven decision making for supply chain excellence.
Strum AI's differentiated, AI-first approach is designed to close a long-standing gap in enterprise supply chains—a unified environment for superior analytical modeling and seamless workflow orchestration. Our differentiation lies in our AI-native design with curated model libraries that end users can invoke with no intermediaries and no friction. We combine predictive AI, mathematical optimization, and generative AI, each applied thoughtfully where it creates real impact.
Leadership Team
Founded by former supply chain executives with 35+ years of combined experience operating and building advanced data science, simulation and optimization products for global supply chains. The founders bring complimentary skills in supply chain leadership and technology-building with a 6+ year history as peers at Amazon solving large-scale problems together.
Kedar Kulkarni
Co-Founder & CEO
Former Amazon & Microsoft Executive
Executive leader with 22+ years of experience leading global supply chains at Amazon and Microsoft across multiple industry verticals including consumer electronics, high-tech, manufacturing, grocery and e-commerce.
Most recently led the end-to-end supply chain for Amazon Fresh, scaling Amazon's Grocery Distribution and Store/Fulfilment Center network serving 100M+ US Prime Members.
Previously at Microsoft, led Supply Chain Planning, Executive S&OP, Procurement, Inventory Management, and New Product Introduction/Ramp for hardware devices from startup to scale.
From 2017-2020, had a hands-on role in designing the capacity of Amazon's North American Fulfilment Center network, optimizing $10B+ in annual capex dollars to serve more than 100 million products from hundreds of thousands of overseas third-party sellers.
Core expertise: supply chain planning, forecasting, S&OP, inventory optimization, network design and AI-powered analytical toolsets.
Vivek Subramaniam
Co-Founder & CTO
Former Amazon Executive
Supply chain technology executive with 15+ years of experience building supply chain technology solutions at Amazon, specializing in data science, simulation and optimization for global supply chains.
Had a seminal role in shaping Amazon's grocery supply chain across sourcing, inventory optimization, demand forecasting, operations and last mile route optimization. Brings deep expertise in building advanced analytical products and AI-powered solutions at scale, with a track record of solving hundreds of similar problems.