On Lounge since Oct 2026
Vishvesh Bhat
PaidMember #220FounderL1Co-founder & CEO, CoreThink AI
Modular distillation that beats RL and SFT on the same data
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Achievements
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About
Vishvesh Bhat is Co-founder and CEO of CoreThink AI, a San Jose company that builds explainable, multi-step AI reasoning workflows for enterprises, including tasks like diagnostics, clinical trials and supply chains. Before that, Vishvesh worked on AI capabilities such as factuality and instruction-following at Primer AI and Pebble Finance, and contributed to an AI textbook. He is focused on neuro-symbolic large reasoning models that are reliable and transparent.
Raises & exits
Member Raises$1.3M
CoreThink AI has raised about $1.3M in a pre-seed round backed by Alumni Ventures (2025).
Experience
NLP and Software Engineer
Machine Learning Engineer · Pebble Finance
Nlp/ml Engineer · TextMyBot.ai by Coolness.ai
Data Scientist · Primer.ai
ML and Software Developer · Tangible AI
NLP and Software Engineer · Viva Translate
NLP Intern · Tangible AI
