RISHI CHOUDHARY

Rishi Choudhary is the Co-Founder and Chief Executive Officer of Kastle, an artificial intelligence software company based in San Francisco, California. Founded in 2024 alongside Nitish Poddar, the five-person startup participated in the Y Combinator Summer 2024 batch and won LendingTree's 2024 Innovation Challenge. Prior to establishing Kastle, Choudhary served at Redfin as the Founding Product Manager for the firm's Mortgage Marketplace, where he increased segment revenue from $3 million to $6 million within nine months. He additionally directed Redfin's Search Experience division, overseeing consumer-facing products that generated 80% of the real estate brokerage's total web traffic. Choudhary holds a Bachelor of Science in Systems Engineering from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. His current professional focus centers on deploying automated AI voice agents to streamline manual servicing operations for the mortgage lending industry.