Srikant Chakravarti

Srikant Chakravarti is a London-based entrepreneur and systems builder with deep expertise in artificial intelligence and distributed platforms. Born and raised in India, Srikant combined an early passion for technology and computing with a drive to build products that had genuine real-world impact. His background spans AI research, product engineering, and company building, with a particular interest in systems that can operate intelligently at scale and adapt to complex, real-world environments.

Srikant co-founded Curio in 2016 alongside Govind Balakrishnan, building the company into one of the UK's most recognised AI-powered audio journalism platforms over eight years. At Curio, he was the technical architect behind the platform's content recommendation systems and AI infrastructure, enabling the company to scale its partnerships with more than 50 major publishers while maintaining the personalised, high-quality listening experience that earned it two Apple keynote features. The company returned nearly $10 million to its publishing partners before its founders chose to wind it down in January 2025, having identified a deeper and more foundational problem to solve in AI.

That problem became Gibran, co-founded in 2025 with Govind Balakrishnan, evolutionary biologist Suzanne Sadedin, and generative systems researcher Edgar Duéñez-Guzmán. At Gibran, Srikant leads systems and platform architecture, building the technical infrastructure that enables the company's scale-free AI models to learn continuously from human interaction. The company's approach — fusing large language models with principles from evolutionary biology and complex adaptive systems — is designed specifically to address the limitations of static, data-hungry models in domains such as drug discovery, theoretical science, and personalised education.

Gibran secured $2.6 million in seed funding in July 2025, led by Together Fund and Mercuri. Together Fund's founders — Freshworks' Girish Mathrubootham and Eka Software's Manav Garg — described Gibran's architectural approach as one of the most original ideas they had encountered in AI. Srikant's contribution to both Curio and Gibran reflects a consistent philosophy: that the most valuable AI systems are those built not to replace human judgment, but to evolve alongside it, becoming more capable and more aligned the longer they are used.