Kaushik Tiwari
Building a YC-backed vertical AI venture studio | Thiel Fellow | YC (W22) | Columbia Alum
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About
Actively building Attack Capital- an AI Venture Studio that incubates AI startups. At 18, I landed in New York with two suitcases, a full scholarship to Columbia University, and an ambition to carve my own path. Over the years, that ambition has taken me through a whirlwind journey: dropping out of college to join the Thiel Fellowship, getting into Y Combinator, building startups that taught me resilience through failure, and eventually founding Attack Capital, an AI Venture Studio. Today, I am focused on one thing: building transformative AI products that solve real-world problems. At Attack Capital, we’ve shifted our focus from passive investing to full-scale incubation and creation. Why? Because building is in our DNA. My co-founder and I realized that instead of chasing overvalued startups, we could use our experience to build solutions faster and better. In the last year alone, we’ve incubated and launched: - Open Mic: AI-powered voice agent for outbound and inbound calls, used across industries like real estate and healthcare. - Optic Intellect: Large vision models and OCR tools for data extraction, solving document management challenges in finance, insurance, and logistics. - PowerDialer AI: A productivity tool for sales agents to supercharge their cold outreach. - Join Arena: An AI interviewer that conducts skills-based interviews, streamlining the recruiting process. And many more. I’m thrilled to build and grow these startups in public. I genuinely believe in the potential of AI to change the world for better and I am here to be a part of the change. If you’re curious about AI, building startups, or want to talk about transformative ideas, let’s connect. I’d love to hear your story and explore how we can build the future together.
Experience
Jan 2021
Family of fintech brands built on a shared stack. We are building “Thrasio” for fintech.
Jun 2014
Dropped out of college and worked on multiple digital health products.
May 2017 to Dec 2020
Multiple pivots: international student insurance/employer-as-a-service for freelancers/ income protection insurance. Supported by Rough Draft Ventures & inaugural cohort of Hartford Insurtech Hub hosted by the City of Hartford, StartupBootcamp, Cigna, Travelers & The Hartford.
Jun 2016 to Aug 2016
Took a small detour from healthcare to explore Deep Learning/AI at Bonsai over a summer as a product management intern. Funded by NEA, Microsoft, SamsungNEXT and Siemens Ventures. Working to make AI accessible to all.
May 2014 to Apr 2015
Thiel Fellowship & Blueprint Health Winter 2015. Co-founded GlucoIQ, a population health platform, that allows ACO's, hospitals and physician groups to monitor chronic conditions such as diabetes and hypertension under Medicare's Chronic Care Management (CCM) program. We connect with glucose meters, fitness trackers and other medical devices to wirelessly stream data into the clinical workflow and generate both automated and human-assisted forms of intervention. For more info visit: http://glucoiq.com/
Sep 2013 to Jun 2014
Oversaw the university-wide network as a part of Network Operations Center(NOC), CUIT. Troubleshooting issues, co-ordinating emergency repair work and maintaining communication with the wider university and CUIT.
Education
W22
Bachelor of Science - BS, Operations Research: Engineering Management Systems & Computer Science
Sep 2012 to Jun 2017