# Aatish Dedhia

> Aatish Dedhia is the founder and CEO of Zycus, an enterprise procurement software company. An IIT Bombay and Cornell electrical engineering graduate and former Intel processor engineer, he built a business around applying classification technology to purchasing data. His activities also include the Dedhia Music Foundation, Ataavi Bird Foundation and the DEXA Fund for student engineering teams at IIT Bombay.

- **Role:** Founder and CEO at Zycus
- **Organizations:** Zycus, Intel (former employer), Certinal, Verdantis, Dedhia Music Foundation, Ataavi Bird Foundation, IIT Bombay (alumnus and donor)
- **Nationality:** Indian
- **Education:** B.Tech in Electrical Engineering, Indian Institute of Technology Bombay, MS in Electrical Engineering, Cornell University
- **Known for:** Inventor named on Intel-assigned US patent 5,880,968, for reducing power usage within a domino logic unit., Built Zycus from early classification technology into an enterprise procurement software business., Established IIT Bombay’s Dedhia Engineering Excellence Accelerator Fund, initially supporting the Rocket Team and AUV-IITB.

## Career timeline

- **1990** — Graduated from IIT Bombay in Electrical Engineering.
- **1993** — Completed an MS at Cornell; a faculty thesis-committee record lists his MS in 1993.
- **Before Zycus** — Worked at Intel in the US on the Pentium II core design team.
- **1995** — Filed the Intel-assigned patent application that became US5880968.
- **1997** — Zycus Infotech incorporated in September, according to CRISIL.
- **1999** — US5880968 granted on March 9, naming Dedhia as inventor.
- **Early 2000s** — Applied internet-data classification technology to procurement catalogues after a venture capitalist suggested the use case.
- **2018** — Zycus launched Merlin AI.
- **2026** — Established the DEXA Fund at IIT Bombay; featured in the September launch episode of The Agentic Procurement Diaries.

## Achievements

- Inventor named on Intel-assigned US patent 5,880,968, for reducing power usage within a domino logic unit.
- Built Zycus from early classification technology into an enterprise procurement software business.
- Established IIT Bombay’s Dedhia Engineering Excellence Accelerator Fund, initially supporting the Rocket Team and AUV-IITB.
- Co-founded Dedhia Music Foundation and Ataavi Bird Foundation.

## Latest updates

- **2026-09** — Nordea selected the Zycus Merlin Agentic Platform for its source-to-pay transformation; announcement published September 23.
- **2026-09** — Joined Philip Ideson for the September 16 launch episode of The Agentic Procurement Diaries.
- **2026-08** — AMSOL announced a phased procurement transformation with Zycus, covering shore and vessel operations.
- **2026-05** — Featured on the cover of CPOstrategy Issue 71, covering Zycus’s agentic AI approach and Horizon EU & UK in Vienna.

## Links

- Website: https://www.zycus.com/

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