Founder profile / Nikita Annt
Technical range, held by one point of view.
I am a product builder and researcher based in San Francisco. For more than a decade, I have moved between low-level infrastructure, embodied signals, knowledge systems, game worlds, and applied AI.
The connecting idea is simple: complex technology becomes valuable when its behavior is legible to the people who rely on it.
Operating principles
What stays constant.
Tools change quickly. The obligation to understand the system, preserve the evidence, and ship a coherent experience does not.
- 01
Keep decisions traceable.
Research, logs, human behavior, and primary material stay connected to the product decisions they support.
- 02
Design the whole loop.
The model, interface, feedback, and operations are one system—not separate deliverables.
- 03
Make depth usable.
Technical ambition matters only when someone can act with more clarity because of it.
Field record / Vienna → San Francisco
A decade across systems.
Mycelium and independent systems
Built early crypto exchanges
Worked across matching engines, wallets, payment integrations, trading interfaces, and exchange operations in Vienna.
Luciding
Co-founded an EEG wearable company
Led the LucidCatcher stack from signal-processing hardware and mobile software to sleep research and manufacturing.
DIANNT
Founded the studio
Established a technical practice spanning applied research, product engineering, and quantitative systems.
Asian Classics Institute
Joined education and classical study
Built the institute's course and CRM platform while studying, annotating source material, and teaching meditation.
Mother Games / Le Zoo
Directed AI for a game studio
Led behavioral AI, EEG-informed research, and agent-assisted game-production experiments for a Unity social MMO.
DIANNT product studio
Expanded the product studio
Developing agentic products, AI games, retrieval-grounded education, research dashboards, and market-signal systems.
Context, not decoration
Numbers with their labels attached.
- years building systems
- 10+
- Mother Games funding context
- $5M
- students taught
- 2.5K+
- simulated alphas
- 27,199
A portfolio-spanning tenure from 2014 exchange infrastructure through current AI products.
Pre-seed figure reported in the preserved founder portfolio for the Le Zoo studio era.
Founder-reported reach across in-person and online meditation teaching during the ACI period.
Founder-reported research submissions since August 2025; this is simulation volume, not investment performance.
Contact
Connect around the work.
Nikita is based in San Francisco and open to conversations about ambitious products, applied research, and technical founder work.