Katherine Ivanova.
From Siberia to San Francisco.
I build things, hustle a lot, and love a good book and a good, deep conversation.
Slavic soul. Stoic by day, romantic by night.
Check out my book collection at the bottom.
HistAI
Tried to cure cancer. Failed halfway. Along the way, we built a massive pathology dataset, annotation pipelines, and open foundation models to speed up cancer diagnostics and research.
Models & datasets on Hugging FacePantio
Tried to make something of us last forever. Think Character.AI meets Replika, aiming for fewer existential hazards (read: no AI girlfriends, no suicide-related lawsuits). At Pantio, we were preserving voices, memories, and personalities while navigating grief and the funeral space. Tried to build something thoughtful. Learned some hard lessons.
- A loved one’s voice never disappearsConnecting Directors
- When a voice is what families missFuneralVision
Good Place
Turns out, death needed better infrastructure. I’m now building Good Place, a new generation of funeral homes. The plan: buy a funeral home, make it good, repeat. Better spaces, clearer choices, and goodbyes that feel like the person.
UGC queen
Big fan of brainrot and internet culture. Turned scrolling and trend-watching into a side hustle: making videos for Fluently.
A look at the wider Fluently campaign:
22 accounts, 200M views
Read for fun
One of my greatest treasures was the collection of books I’d read and couldn’t bring with me to America. This is its new home.
If you want to know me a little better, pick a book. Let it change you a little. And if you want to talk about any of them, I’m always up for a good book rabbit hole.