Kashikoi

Kashikoi

Simulation Engine for Benchmarking AI Products

San Francisco
2 employees
Developer Tools
Seed · $500K

About Kashikoi

Kashikoi is a simulation engine to benchmark AI agents. We generate CPU friendly world models that autonomously interview agents and generate deep behavioral assessments. We built a similar technology at Moveworks which was used to ship 250+ enterprise agents to customers daily.

Company details

Team Size2
LocationSan Francisco
IndustryDeveloper Tools

Funding

Total raised

$500K

Last stage

Seed

Investors

Y Combinator
Sequoia Capital

Founders

Aaksha Meghawat

Aaksha Meghawat

Founder, Kashikoi. Aaksha led the Simulation & Evaluation stack at Moveworks(ServiceNow) shipping 250+ customized enterprise ready agents to Fortune 500 and federal agencies. Aaksha has done award winning NSF sponsored research in Transformers at CMU (long before OpenAI made them cool). She shipped edge speech recognition models on 1bn+ iPhones (for the most esoteric dialects you can think of) at Apple. The innovation behind this was nominated for a Best Paper at Interspeech 2021.

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Tim Michaud

Tim Michaud

Previously at Moveworks where he used world model tech to reduce dev cycles for shipping 250+ enterprise AI agents. Background in security research including discovery of a 50-mile 0-click exploit in Qualcomm GPS chips and multiple public CVEs across Apple products (Safari, iOS, macOS, tvOS, iTunes).

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What happens next.

No applications, no recruiter spam. Just the intro.

01

Confirm the fit

A few questions to make sure this role is the right shape for you. Two minutes.

02

I pitch you to the company

I write the intro, send it to the founder, and handle the back-and-forth.

03

A meeting lands on your calendar

If they’re a yes, I book the chat. You show up — that’s the whole job-hunt.