Ashwin Kumar is a founder and product-minded AI entrepreneur with 12 years of experience building applied machine learning and fintech products from seed-stage startups to enterprise platforms. He founded Voxel AI Labs to build agentic AI workflows after leading product efforts on Banking-as-a-Service at Stripe and founding Sway Finance (YC S16), where he applied ML to automate bookkeeping. His background spans machine learning engineering at Mythic, startup mentorship and data science work at Y Combinator, and early careers in investment banking and partnerships, giving him a rare mix of technical depth, product intuition, and commercial rigor. Ashwin is equally comfortable shipping models on edge hardware and designing developer-facing financial products, and he often focuses on purposeful projects that deliver measurable business impact. Based in New York, he combines operator experience with venture and startup ecosystem fluency to help ambitious companies launch AI-powered products.
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