Amrit Saxena
About 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 has successfully founded & sold two AI companies (Stella.ai, Fancy That) and is an active angel investor in data, AI, web3, and enterprise software companies in the Silicon Valley, investing in 200+ early stage technology companies (including several unicorns and companies that have gone public, including the likes of OpenAI, Anthropic, Neuralink, Palantir, Groq, Figure, EigenLayer, and Uniswap), private businesses, and PE/VC funds. Amrit has invested alongside and before VC funds including Tiger Global, Founders Fund, Sequoia, General Catalyst, NEA, Coatue, 8VC, NFX, Accomplice, Prime Movers Labs, Omidyar, Resolute Ventures, Romulus Capital, Remus Capital, Pantera, Polychain Capital, and Bloomberg Beta. Prior to SaxeCap, Amrit founded and scaled Stella.ai, a 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.). Stella.ai was sold to Cornell Capital and Trilantic Capital Partners in a $1B+ private equity transaction in 2021. Additionally, Amrit founded, scaled, and sold Fancy That, a retail AI company, to Palantir (NYSE: PLTR) in 2015. Between his two AI startups, Amrit has experience buying a company, selling two companies, 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 accolades, including being awarded 7 U.S. patents (relating to AI and optimization), 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.