Vikesh Tiwari
Vikesh Tiwari

Vikesh Tiwari

Founder of RichAPI. Founded TexAu in 2020. Tallinn, Estonia.

Developer turned founder, born in a 6x6 apartment in the slums of Bombay, now in Tallinn. I build RichAPI, a data API that GTM teams and AI agents call for contacts, companies and signals. Before that I ran TexAu for six years, and before that I built chatbots and backends for startups in the UK, Canada, South Africa and Germany.

Now: RichAPI is a B2B data enrichment API and MCP server: contact, company, social and signal data behind one API key and one credit pool. Call it from your code, Clay, n8n, or Claude. Email and phone lookups that find nothing cost nothing. Try it with 100 free credits.

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  2. 10 GTM tools builders are talking about right now.
  3. Most GTM engineers are overpaying for data enrichment.
  4. This week X open-sourced the entire outbound stack.
  5. Most founders are paying a 900% markup on GTM data.

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Experience

  1. Aug 2026 to now
    Founder, RichAPI

    B2B data enrichment API and MCP server. 65+ endpoints, one API key, one credit pool. Email and phone lookups that find nothing cost nothing. Started as TexAu Enrich, which 200+ teams plugged in.

  2. 2020 to Aug 2026
    Founder, TexAu

    Growth automation platform. 2,000+ daily users within six months, $450K in revenue in the first 10 months after an AppSumo launch, 7,000+ businesses, 25 people and no VC. Three versions, the last one a GTM spreadsheet with no LinkedIn or Facebook dependency.

  3. 2019
    Contract Software Engineer, Blyng

    Built the whole backend of a real-estate AI chatbot, with French, Chinese and WhatsApp support.

All 10 roles and education
  1. 2018
    Contract Software Engineer, LawDroid

    Voice chatbots for lawyers on the Clio API. 20+ chatbots and automation tools for law firms in total.

  2. 2018
    Contract Software Engineer, TouchFoundry

    Microservices on AWS for an Airbnb-like product.

  3. 2017 to 2018
    Contract Software Engineer, Penta

    One of three early developers at the fintech. Most of the backend, payments and banking integration. Penta was later acquired by Finleap.

  4. 2017
    Co-founder and CTO, Speedbox

    Logistics startup. Hired and led a team of 8.

  5. 2016
    Test Automation Intern, Slack

    Automated the QA setup and wrote UI and API tests.

  6. 2015 to 2016
    Software Engineering Intern, Directi (CodeChef)

    Built the CodeChef OAuth 2.0 API and its developer page.

  7. 2014 to 2018
    Co-founder, Eulercoder

    Non-profit that taught programming. Ran the FreeCodeCamp Mumbai and Pune groups, 8,000+ students.

  8. 2017
    Bachelor's degree, Computer Science

    Sardar Patel Institute of Technology, Mumbai

  9. School
    Hindi-medium school in Mumbai

Open source: core team at Botpress, contributor to Botkit. Code at github.com/vicky002.

Articles

  1. 55 quotes of Naval Ravikant that can change your life
  2. The cost of not using your own product.
  3. The legal industry is still missing the power of automation
  4. Planning to do Lifetime deal for your SaaS, read this first.
  5. How we made $450K launching TexAu on AppSumo

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The fastest way is the Connect form: it lands on my phone. Or email, X, and RSS for updates. I read every message and usually reply within a day.

Open to: coffee in Tallinn (or Bombay when I'm home), arguments about GTM data and tooling, teams that want to plug RichAPI into their product. Not a new job.

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