# Amber Nigam

> Amber Nigam is the co-founder and CEO of basys.ai, a Harvard-born healthcare AI company teaching software to navigate one of medicine's most despised rituals: prior authorization. Trained on more than 10 million patient records and claims, basys.ai's engine encodes payer policy and automates up to 90% of authorization requests, aiming to give clinicians their time back and patients faster answers. A Harvard Health Data Science graduate, three-time patent inventor, and published researcher at venues like NeurIPS and ACL, Nigam came to Boston from Bareilly, India, after first building an ed-tech startup, kydots.ai. He has spoken at TEDx, Mayo Clinic, Harvard, and MIT, and has been named to multiple 40 Under 40 lists.

- **Role:** Co-founder and CEO at basys.ai
- **Organizations:** basys.ai, kydots.ai, Harvard University
- **From:** Bareilly, India
- **Nationality:** Indian
- **Education:** Master of Science (SM), Health Data Science, Harvard University, Bachelor's, Computer Science (per company bios), Harvard University
- **Known for:** Co-founder and CEO of basys.ai, raising $2.4M from investors including Eli Lilly, Mayo Clinic, Nina Capital, Two Lanterns Venture Fund, and Chaac Ventures., Built an AI engine trained on 10M+ patient records and claims that automates up to 90% of prior authorization requests., First inventor on three patents.

## Career timeline

- **2010s** — Began career in computer science and data science after a Computer Science bachelor's degree.
- **Earlier** — Co-founded and served as CTO of kydots.ai, an ed-tech startup serving enterprise clients in financial management and human capital domains.
- **2021-2022** — Co-founded basys.ai with Jie Sun at Harvard University.
- **2022** — Named a Boston Congress of Public Health 40 Under 40 honoree for work at the intersection of AI and healthcare.
- **2023** — Completed SM in Health Data Science at Harvard; basys.ai closed an oversubscribed round totaling $2.4M led by Nina Capital.
- **2025** — Named to Boston Business Journal 40 Under 40 and recognized among Top Healthcare Technology CEOs of 2025 by The Healthcare Technology Report.

## Achievements

- Co-founder and CEO of basys.ai, raising $2.4M from investors including Eli Lilly, Mayo Clinic, Nina Capital, Two Lanterns Venture Fund, and Chaac Ventures.
- Built an AI engine trained on 10M+ patient records and claims that automates up to 90% of prior authorization requests.
- First inventor on three patents.
- Published research at top venues including NeurIPS and ACL, and with publishers including Springer and Lancet (11 peer-reviewed papers cited).
- Boston Congress of Public Health 40 Under 40 (2022).
- Boston Business Journal 40 Under 40 (2025).
- Named among Top Healthcare Technology CEOs of 2025 by The Healthcare Technology Report.
- Named Top 50 in Digital Health by Rock Health.
- Cheng Fellowship and Halcyon Fellowship recipient.
- Speaker at TEDx, Mayo Clinic, Harvard, and MIT.

## Latest updates

- **2026-03** — Recognized among the Top Healthcare Technology CEOs of 2025 by The Healthcare Technology Report.
- **2025** — Named to the Boston Business Journal 40 Under 40.

## Links

- Website: https://www.ambernigam.com/
- LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/amber-nigam/
- Twitter/X: https://twitter.com/AmBeRnIgAm
- Instagram: https://instagram.com/amber.nigam
- Facebook: https://facebook.com/basysdotai/

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Last updated: 2026-06-25