# Karun Kaushik

> Karun Kaushik is the co-founder and CEO of Delve, a San Francisco AI compliance startup he launched in 2023 with fellow MIT student Selin Kocalar after the pair dropped out sophomore year. What began as an AI medical scribe pivoted into automated SOC 2, HIPAA and ISO 27001 compliance after the founders ran into the paperwork themselves. Delve raced through Y Combinator to a $32M Series A led by Insight Partners at a reported $300M valuation, landed both founders on Forbes 30 Under 30, and served more than 1,500 companies before a 2026 whistleblower controversy put its audit practices under a harsh spotlight.

- **Role:** Co-Founder & CEO at Delve
- **Organizations:** Delve (getdelve)
- **Nationality:** American
- **Education:** Studied AI / pre-med; left in sophomore year (2023) to found Delve, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Took ~25 community college classes after leaving a competitive high school, Community college (pre-MIT)
- **Known for:** Co-founded and leads Delve, an AI-native compliance platform reported to serve 1,500+ companies, Raised roughly $35.4M total, including a $32M Series A led by Insight Partners at a reported $300M valuation, Named to the Forbes 30 Under 30 list (AI category, 2026)

## Career timeline

- **pre-2021** — Left a competitive high school and took roughly 25 community college classes; conducted AI research including detecting COVID and pneumonia from chest X-rays
- **2021-2023** — Enrolled at MIT, where he met co-founder Selin Kocalar in their first week
- **2023** — Dropped out of MIT and founded Delve out of a dorm room, initially as an AI medical scribe before pivoting to compliance automation
- **2024** — Went through Y Combinator (Winter 2024 batch); scaled to hundreds of customers
- **2025-07** — Raised $32M Series A led by Insight Partners at a reported $300M valuation; featured in the New York Times
- **2026-01** — Named to Forbes 30 Under 30 (AI) alongside co-founder Selin Kocalar
- **2026-04** — Delve faced anonymous whistleblower allegations about its audit practices; company was removed from the Y Combinator directory. Kaushik publicly denied the claims, calling them a targeted cyberattack

## Achievements

- Co-founded and leads Delve, an AI-native compliance platform reported to serve 1,500+ companies
- Raised roughly $35.4M total, including a $32M Series A led by Insight Partners at a reported $300M valuation
- Named to the Forbes 30 Under 30 list (AI category, 2026)
- Completed Y Combinator (Winter 2024) within months of founding
- Earlier AI research work detecting COVID and pneumonia from chest X-ray imaging

## Latest updates

- **2026-01** — Named to Forbes 30 Under 30 in the AI category alongside co-founder Selin Kocalar.
- **2026-04** — Delve faced anonymous whistleblower allegations about its compliance/audit practices and was removed from the Y Combinator directory; Kaushik publicly denied wrongdoing, characterizing the posts as a targeted cyberattack with fabricated and cherry-picked claims.

## Links

- Website: https://delve.co
- LinkedIn: http://www.linkedin.com/in/karun-kaushik
- Twitter/X: https://x.com/karunkaushik_

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Last updated: 2026-07-01