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Kaushik Tiwari

Founder & CEO at Attack Capital, Co-Founder of multiple startups

Kaushik Tiwari is a seasoned entrepreneur and the Co-Founder of Better Financial Corporation, a fintech company based in Brooklyn, New York. He has been with Better Financial Corporation since January 2021, where he focuses on building a family of fintech brands on a shared stack, akin to a "Thrasio" for fintech.1 2

In addition to his role at Better Financial Corporation, Kaushik Tiwari is also the Founder and CEO of Attack Capital, a position he has held since March 2023.1 2 His entrepreneurial journey includes founding Truedime, a company that underwent multiple pivots and was supported by Rough Draft Ventures and Hartford Insurtech Hub.1

Kaushik was a Thiel Fellow, which allowed him to drop out of college and work on various digital health products.1 He has a background in Operations Research and Computer Science from Columbia University, where he was a Prentice Hiam Scholar and a C.Prescott Davis Scholar.1

Highlights

Oct 2 · twitter

Part 1 of our Burning Man 2024 Adventures!

We are launching something exciting soon. After spending the entire year in the trenches building, @SaumikTiwari and I took a week off to recharge and headed to Burning Man in the deserts of Nevada. Here is part 1 of our adventures!

Follow for part 2 :)

Sep 27 · twitter

A sneak peak into @ycombinator demo day ! Congrats to Y Combinator S24! @SaumikTiwari and I attended the Alumni Demo Day at YC HQ this saturday. Kudos to @garrytan for bringing back the in-person culture of YC bac. The Dogpatch in San Francisco feels like a YC campus, we ran into YC founders at every coffee shops and restaurants we went to. Super bullish on this community!

Experience

Founder & CEO at Attack Capital (March 2023 - Present)

Co-Founder at Better Financial Corporation (January 2021 - Present), Thiel Fellow at The Thiel Foundation (June 2014 - Present), Founder at Truedime (May 2017 - December 2020), PM Intern at Bonsai (June 2016 - August 2016), Co-Founder at GlucoIQ (May 2014 - April 2015), Network Analyst at Columbia University IT (September 2013 - June 2014)

Education

['Y Combinator, W22', 'Columbia University in the City of New York, Bachelor of Science - BS, Operations Research: Engineering Management Systems & Computer Science (2012 - 2017)', 'Delhi Public School - R. K. Puram, High School'], ['Y Combinator, W22', 'Columbia University in the City of New York, Bachelor of Science - BS, Operations Research: Engineering Management Systems & Computer Science (2012 - 2017)', 'Delhi Public School - R. K. Puram, High School'], ['Y Combinator, W22', 'Columbia University in the City of New York, Bachelor of Science - BS, Operations Research: Engineering Management Systems & Computer Science (2012 - 2017)', 'Delhi Public School - R. K. Puram, High School']