# Amit Garg

> Amit Garg is the co-founder and CEO of HiLabs, a Bethesda healthcare-data company born from a failed attempt to predict illness with machine learning. An engineer from Dehradun educated at IIT Roorkee and Yale School of Management, Garg redirected the venture toward the less glamorous but foundational problem he and co-founder Neel Butala encountered: fragmented, incomplete and inaccurate healthcare data. HiLabs was founded in 2014 and raised a $39 million Series B in 2024.

- **Role:** Co-founder and CEO at HiLabs
- **Organizations:** HiLabs, Yale School of Management, Indian Institute of Technology Roorkee, Infosys, CNSI, Northrop Grumman, Forbes Technology Council
- **From:** Dehradun, India
- **Nationality:** Indian-born naturalized United States citizen
- **Education:** Bachelor's degree in Industrial Engineering, Indian Institute of Technology Roorkee, MBA, with distinction in Economics; focus on healthcare, finance and entrepreneurship, Yale School of Management
- **Known for:** Co-founded HiLabs in 2014 and led it through a $39 million Series B financing in 2024., Led work on the CMS Encounter Data Processing System, which his Forbes Technology Council biography says calculates more than $200 billion in risk-adjusted Medicare Advantage payments., Built HiLabs from a Yale classroom business plan into a healthcare-data company serving major U.S. health plans.

## Career timeline

- **2000s** — Began his career at Infosys, then joined a Washington, D.C.-headquartered startup where he worked across business and IT.
- **2009** — Helped turn around a stalled state Medicaid claims-system implementation by reorganizing a contentious workshop into smaller mixed teams.
- **Before 2014** — Worked in health IT at CNSI and later led implementation of the CMS Encounter Data Processing System at Northrop Grumman.
- **2012-2014** — Completed an MBA at Yale School of Management and met future HiLabs co-founder Neel Butala in a Healthcare Ventures class.
- **2014** — Co-founded HiLabs after the pair's business plan placed in the top five of a Yale entrepreneurship competition.
- **2022** — HiLabs reported partnerships with three of the ten largest U.S. health plans and coverage of more than 65 million lives.
- **2024** — HiLabs closed a $39 million Series B led by Denali Growth Partners and Eight Roads Ventures, with F-Prime Capital participating.
- **2024** — Recognized in the Washington Business Journal's Innovators in Health Care awards.
- **2025** — Named a Distinguished Alumnus of IIT Roorkee in the Entrepreneurial Excellence category.
- **2026** — Returned to IIT Roorkee for its Cognizance technology festival as HiLabs participated as title sponsor; HiLabs also appeared on the Inc. 5000 for a second consecutive year.

## Achievements

- Co-founded HiLabs in 2014 and led it through a $39 million Series B financing in 2024.
- Led work on the CMS Encounter Data Processing System, which his Forbes Technology Council biography says calculates more than $200 billion in risk-adjusted Medicare Advantage payments.
- Built HiLabs from a Yale classroom business plan into a healthcare-data company serving major U.S. health plans.
- Received IIT Roorkee's 2025 Distinguished Alumnus Award in Entrepreneurial Excellence.
- Was recognized in the Washington Business Journal's 2024 Innovators in Health Care awards.

## Latest updates

- **2026-09** — HiLabs appeared on the Inc. 5000 for a second consecutive year, ranking No. 1,106 with 317% three-year growth.
- **2026-04** — Returned to IIT Roorkee as HiLabs served as title sponsor of the Cognizance technology festival, including a healthcare generative-AI workshop and AgentX AI hackathon.
- **2025-11** — Received IIT Roorkee's Distinguished Alumnus Award in the Entrepreneurial Excellence category.
- **2024-03** — Announced HiLabs' $39 million Series B financing to expand its AI-powered healthcare data-management platform and product teams.

## Links

- Website: https://www.hilabs.com/
- LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/connectamitgarg/
- Twitter/X: https://twitter.com/hilabs_inc

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Last updated: 2026-09-28