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Founder

Building Kimova AI

Kimova AI is an agentic AI co-auditor for ISO, SOC 2 and privacy audits. I co-founded it in Tallinn in 2024 and lead it as CEO, bringing a decade of AI research into a product that auditors and compliance teams can trust with real evidence.

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Company
KIMOVA AI OÜ · Tallinn, Estonia
Founded
May 2024
My role
Co-founder & CEO
Co-founder
Krishna Vaishnav
Dr. Mohit Vaishnav, Co-founder & CEO of Kimova AI

The product

One co-auditor across the whole audit

  1. Audit planning
  2. Evidence review
  3. Conducting the audit
  4. Corrective actions (CAPA)
  5. Audit report

Frameworks: ISO 27001 · SOC 2 Type II · ISO 42001 · ISO 27701 · ISO 9001 — or any framework you bring.

Audit firms

A workspace per client, with the same frameworks, templates and label sets reused across engagements. The auditor owns the report and the client relationship.

In-house compliance & GRC

Teams preparing for certification keep evidence, controls and corrective actions in one place, ready for the auditor.

Why I started it

From being right to being useful

Research rewards being right: a result that holds up under scrutiny. A company rewards being useful: something a customer relies on tomorrow morning. Audits demand both — every finding has to be correct, defensible and fast.

My research asks whether an AI model actually reasoned over what it saw, or only matched a pattern. That is the question an auditor asks of AI too. Kimova is built around it: the co-auditor works from the organisation's real evidence, and its findings point back to it.

The research side

Seeing vs. reasoning in AI

Postdoctoral research at TalTech — TMLR (J2C at NeurIPS 2026), CoNLL 2026 (oral at ACL 2026).

Research

Milestones

The founder track

  1. 2026

    Selected for the Tehnopol AI Accelerator

    Next cohort of the six-month programme at Tehnopol Science and Business Park, Tallinn — eight companies per round.

  2. 2024

    Google Cloud Startup Program

    Kimova AI accepted, with infrastructure, technical support and guidance to scale.

  3. May 2024

    KIMOVA AI OÜ founded in Tallinn

    Registered in the Estonian e-Business Register (code 16986492).

  4. 2016 — 2017

    First startup: Kevin Technology

    Co-founded a computer-vision surveillance startup in Ajmer, India — before the PhD.