# Satayan Mahajan

> Satayan Mahajan is the founding CEO of Datalign Advisory, a Cambridge, Massachusetts fintech that matches Americans with vetted fiduciary financial advisors using AI and human-centered design. An MIT alumnus and Media Lab pioneer, he spent two decades building motion-capture and gaming companies (Motus, iClub) before an eight-year run at Amazon as a GM and Head of Product. He returned to startup mode in 2024 when Cogo Labs founder Dave Blundin recruited him to lead Datalign, which has since referred more than $80 billion in assets across thousands of advisors.

- **Role:** Chief Executive Officer at Datalign Advisory
- **Organizations:** Datalign Advisory, Amazon, Motus Corporation, iClub Inc., Cogo Labs, MIT
- **Nationality:** American
- **Education:** MIT alumnus, Media Lab, Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT), Scuola Europea di Varese, Rio Americano High School
- **Known for:** Founding CEO of Datalign Advisory, which has facilitated $80 billion+ in asset referrals, Connected over $40 billion in assets with more than 7,000 financial advisors in 2024, Built the world's first fully self-contained wireless motion-capture system at Motus

## Career timeline

- **2001** — Co-founded Motus, a motion-capture and gaming venture out of MIT
- **2000s** — Founder and CEO of iClub Inc., a motion-sensing system for golf instruction and sports
- **2008** — Motion-control technology profiled by MIT Technology Review amid the rise of the Wii
- **2016** — Joined Amazon as GM and Head of Product for Amazon.com - his 'entrepreneurial holiday'
- **2024** — Recruited by Cogo Labs founder Dave Blundin to become founding CEO of Datalign Advisory
- **2025** — Datalign launches compliance-by-design agentic AI agents for wealth management
- **2026** — Datalign named Financial Advisory Platform of the Year by FinTech Breakthrough

## Achievements

- Founding CEO of Datalign Advisory, which has facilitated $80 billion+ in asset referrals
- Connected over $40 billion in assets with more than 7,000 financial advisors in 2024
- Built the world's first fully self-contained wireless motion-capture system at Motus
- Helped develop one of the first motion-controlled game controllers
- Holds patents across audio, social media, and motion analysis (incl. US20060025229)
- Spent eight years at Amazon as GM and Head of Product for Amazon.com
- Serves as a judge for MIT's Entrepreneurship Competition
- Datalign named Financial Advisory Platform of the Year 2026 by FinTech Breakthrough

## Latest updates

- **2026-01** — Datalign Advisory named Financial Advisory Platform of the Year 2026 by FinTech Breakthrough.
- **2025-02** — Datalign raised a $9M seed round and rolled out compliance-by-design agentic AI agents for wealth management.

## Links

- Website: https://datalign.com
- LinkedIn: http://www.linkedin.com/in/satayanmahajan
- Twitter/X: https://twitter.com/dataalign

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Last updated: 2026-06-21