An ex-Microsoft scientist is building an AI startup to change how companies handle work visas

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America's visa system is a labyrinth that Priyanka Kulkarni, a 34-year-old machine learning scientist, knows all too well. After spending nine years on a visa, she's now using artificial intelligence to help people find the path to employment-based immigration.
 

 

Her startup, Casium, sells employers a portal to run visa cases end-to-end, replacing the Excel spreadsheets and, in many instances, the outside law firms that they usually rely on.

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It's a product built for the quickly changing landscape of employment immigration. Immigration policy has swung in recent months, culminating in the Trump administration's surprise executive order requiring companies to pay a $100,000 fee for each new H-1B application. While some companies welcomed the change, the move also sent employers scrambling and sparked lawsuits from business groups and the US Chamber of Commerce.

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Casium's bet is that a tech-first approach can bring speed and transparency to a system that's often beset with delays and confusion.

The company says it has assisted hundreds of candidates through assessments, compliance reviews, and actual filings, citing an "exceptionally high approval rate." In several cases, founders who hired Casium went from intake to on-the-job start in under a month, Kulkarni says.

Investors are on board. In recent months, Casium, founded in 2024, secured $5 million in a seed funding round led by Maverick Ventures, with participation from the AI2 Incubator, GTMfund, Success Venture Partners, and angel investor Jake Heller, whose startup Casetext was acquired by Thomson Reuters in 2023. The company declined to share its valuation.