Priyaa K

Priyaa K

founder

I like turning AI models into things that spark joy for everyday people.

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Lica World

Founder and CEO

Oct 2023-July 2026

Acquired by Gamma.
Lica is a platform to train and evaluate creative AI models across taste expressions. The foundational graphic design models trained on our infra were deployed by large enterprises in fashion and CPG to scale visual marketing without losing their brand identity.

Raised $5.1M, backed by Accel, South Park Commons, Village Global, and amazing angels.

  • Built the largest graphic design dataset of 1.5 Million+ layered compositions across presentations, posters, social media, and other design formats. post | arxiv
  • Trained in-house graphic design models that generated structured, editable objects rather than flattened PNGs, enabling layer-level control and iteration. x
  • Deployed agentic systems tuned for large ecomm brands in fashion and CPG, with dynamic token allocation and routing across open- and closed-source models to automate creative production at scale.
  • Published Graphic Design Bench (GDB), the first benchmark evaluating frontier models on real-world design tasks drawn from professional creative workflows in enterprises. blog | github

Waymo

Product Lead

Nov 2022-Sep 2023

Autonomous driver behavior on multilane roads and highways.

Snap

Product Lead

Jan 2022-Nov 2022

Led 0 to 1 perception based monetizable AR experiences for creators and enterprises.

Microsoft

Apr 2019-Jan 2022

Created Microsoft Designer, an AI powered graphic design engine to generate visual artifacts of all types. Started with PowerPoint presentation design and grew it into an application of its own powering all visual creation in M365 suite.

iSPIRT

Jun 2021-Nov 2023

iSPIRT is the organization behind India Stack and other digital public goods. Worked with folks way smarter than me to define Data Empowerment and Protection Architecture (DEPA) for Model Training: a framework to unlock siloed, high-value proprietary enterprise and government data safely to train localized, context-aware AI models.

Misc.

July 2017-Mar 2019

Bunch of different startups in Prop Tech and AI for Ecomm that didn't work.

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