Amrit Saxena

Amrit Saxena is the Founder & CEO of SaxeCap, an AI transformation and PE investment firm, that conducts AI-levered buyouts and transforms enterprises with AI & automation technology. Additionally, he is an active angel investor in data, AI, and enterprise software companies in the Silicon Valley and has invested in companies including Noble.ai, Human Capital, Clerkie, Einsite, WeaveGrid, Tawkify, Free Agency, Polkadot, RippleMatch, Fellow, Cobu, Dover.io, TrueNorth, Synapse Technology Corporation, and SESO Labs. Prior to SaxeCap, Amrit founded and scaled Stella.ai, a growing talent sourcing AI company, to over 150 large enterprise clients (including 10% of the Fortune 500), leading technology (data science, product, engineering, etc.) and operations (pre-sales, client integrations, etc.) and founded, built, and sold Fancy That, a retail AI company, to Palantir. Between his two AI startups, Amrit has experience buying a company, selling a company, and scaling teams from 0 to 50+ people. Amrit previously worked at Bain & Company, Groupon, AmEx, and e2e Analytics and taught and researched AI at Stanford & MIT. He received his B.S. in Computer Science with a concentration in Artificial Intelligence and M.S. in Management Science & Engineering with a concentration in Operations Research, both from Stanford University with distinction. Additionally, he has garnered numerous academic accolades, including being a three time finalist in the United States of America Mathematical Olympiad (USAMO), winner of the American Mathematics Competition (AMC), finalist in the United States Physics Olympiad (USAPhO), Congressional Award Gold Medalist, Research Science Institute (RSI) Scholar, American Regions Math League (ARML) winner, and was selected for the President's Award for Academic Excellence and the Tau Beta Pi Engineering Honors Society while at Stanford.