Divyansh Lohia

I’m the Co-Founder & CEO of Katalyst, a New York City-based startup where we’re building AI agents for enterprise sales teams. Our mission is simple: make every account executive dramatically more effective by giving them an AI colleague that understands their pipeline, surfaces what matters and automates admin. 
With a computer science background from Cornell and experience across cloud observability and GTM at companies operating at massive scale, I’ve seen firsthand how much revenue teams lose to slow complex sales admin and manual prep. Katalyst was born to fix this.

At Katalyst, we’re obsessed with clarity, speed, and impact. We take the most painful parts of selling - prep, research, messaging, CRM scribing, meeting readiness and automate the complexity behind the scenes. Our AI agents do the work so sellers can focus on what actually moves revenue.

If you ship fast and want to build something category defining, come help us push the boundaries of AI for enterprise sales workflows.

Co-Founder & CEO

Building a Direct-to-Consumer brand that makes lifestyle products ethically & sustainably. 

If you would like to work in setting the standard on how High Achievers live and move, please reach out!

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• Developed investor relations automation platform, culminating in successful acquisition by CrowdSurf for integration into their influencer equity platform
• Led development of automated lifecycle analysis platform, achieving product-market fit with initial customers and generating recurring revenue through three strategic pivots
• Architected end-to-end automation solution for SMB certification and grant applications, reducing processing time by 90% and securing early adopter revenue
• Built and managed cross-functional teams across product, engineering, and business development while bootstrapping operations

Founder and CEO

Sema

• Directed comprehensive due diligence assessments for $100B+ in VC/PE transactions, presenting findings to major firms including Thoma Bravo, Vista Equity, and Norwest
• Managed end-to-end business operations including finance, legal, HR, and growth strategy for 30-person organization
• Led 20+ cross-functional initiatives spanning product development, sales optimization, and customer success
• Spearheaded development and launch of new SaaS offering while maintaining core due diligence business

Chief Of Staff

• Leading the engagement with other IT&S resources, under defined confidentiality rules, to gather and analyze information
about the business/asset in order to define feasible IT options in relation to the deal
• Managing the relationship between bp leadership, M&A, and Legal alongside a counterparty’s IT organization to ensure that
the terms of a deal properly protect bp’s IT interests and ensures a robust risk management program is in place
• Developing the materials necessary to describe the IT environment that supports the business/asset to external bidders • Understanding the deal structure to contribute IT&S input to a deal’s marketing materials and legal agreements and to
provide feedback on potential ramifications, challenges, and required capabilities to successfully close

M&A Digital Associate

•	Incorporating machine learning techniques for anomaly detection and curve synthesis in big data analytics
•	Gathering requirements to develop a seismic application with inputs from a plethora of business units across bp
•	Parallelizing applications with respect to bp’s on-prem system configuration to dramatically reduce computation time - achieving performance improvements of 2 to 4 orders of magnitude
•	Developing comprehensive visualizations via HoloViews for more thorough analysis and interactivity
•	Organizing learning sessions with bp leaders and tours of vendor facilities for new graduates

Software Development Engineer - High Performance Computing (HPC)

West Monroe Partners

•	Trimmed Philadelphia Energy Company’s MRCs by $250,000 via a streamlined termination process for obsolete lines
•	Contributed to the company’s largest RFP by synthesizing case studies to highlight the firm’s past successes on similar projects and cross-referenced current line workers with project end dates to arrange potential teams for the project
•	Developed a budget tracker that checks data from the forecasted budget against the actuals from that month’s general ledger
•	Planned and implemented an office wide event in commemoration of Space Exploration Day with activities and snacks

Energy and Utilities Consulting Intern

C.D. Doyle Clinic

•	Streamlined clinic’s setup and operations saving Brackenridge Hospital on average $200,000 a year
•	Implemented a weekly outreach event at local homeless shelters to promote the clinic’s mission and available resources
•	Kick started an initiative program to promote STEM careers in underprivileged/underperforming schools

Outreach Director

Texas Health Physicians Group

•	Analyzed patient flow and bottlenecks for 30 days and found a way to reduce patient wait time by 20% via implementing a customizable online intake form a patient can fill out at home
•	400 hours of shadowing under Dr. Devanshi Gupta and recording new patient & follow-up patient vitals
•	Observed numerous electromyogram tests and nerve conduction studies

Medical Intern

CynEX Consulting

Consultant

Why? 

Possibly my favorite question as a child. Besides my affinity for grapes and passion for legos, I would always beg to know the reason or story behind the provided answer. This thirst for reason fueled my curiosity in two fields: technology and public speaking.

As a debater in high school, I was mesmerized by speakers who were able to convince judges of their arguments even when they were in contrast to the judge’s intrinsic beliefs. I developed my speaking skills to communicate my thoughts more effectively while still being respectful of others’ opinions. In university, I used my voice to motivate elementary students in underprivileged school districts to pursue careers in STEM by working with them on science projects – the intention was to convey complex natural phenomenon in a more intuitive way. I was also an outspoken advocate of mental and physical health services available to the city of Austin’s homeless population. As part of a student run volunteer clinic, we raised awareness of free resources available to them and offered a preliminary assessment of their vitals.

Meanwhile, my passion for learning and understanding how things work drove me to a degree in engineering. I believe there is a curiosity within us that bellows to be let out when you see a new gadget or piece of tech. It’s maddening to not know its capabilities and functions. Unfortunately, engineering taught me that there is an insurmountable amount of information in even one field for one person to traverse. My good fortune, grants me a job that allows me to wake up every morning knowing I’ll come home knowing at least a dozen new concepts. 

As a young professional, I always ask why are we pursuing an assignment and what value are we providing in the long term. I hope to learn more about people and what drives them in conjunction with technology and the breakthroughs being made every day behind the scenes. I am confident my passion in these areas will drive me to explore possibilities that will create value going forward.

Param Nayar

Honored to be joining StartX's Spring 2026 cohort!

Your network is your most valuable asset. Every customer conversation, technical validation, and commercial opportunity we've secured traces back to someone who made an introduction or took a chance on us.

StartX connects us with 2,700+ founders and 80 Stanford professors who've scaled companies and built repeatable commercial motion.

At Type 1 Compute, we're working to get our brain-inspired edge AI systems into the hands of our warfighters. I'm grateful for everyone who's gotten us this far. Stay tuned!

Building Edge AI for the Warfighter | Stanford StartX | Antler ATX | Ex-HPC

We're excited to share that our founders, Param Nayar and Murat Can Işık, have been accepted into StartX's Spring 2026 cohort!

StartX has built an incredible community of Stanford founders, with 2,700+ founders and 20+ unicorns. We're honored that Param and Murat will be part of this network of innovators and mentors who are building transformative companies.

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