Quanta’s cleverest idea is also its least glamorous: before an AI can explain the books, somebody has to make the books worth explaining.

Sidharth Saxena is the Co-Founder and CEO of Docyt, a Santa Clara-based AI accounting automation platform serving small and medium-sized businesses. An IIT Guwahati industrial design graduate who later earned a master's from Indiana University, he spent years as a UX designer at Oracle and VMware before co-founding Docyt with fellow IIT alumnus Sugam Pandey in 2016. Under his leadership, Docyt has raised $27.2M in total funding - including a $12M pre-Series B in August 2025 - and built its proprietary High Precision Accounting Intelligence (HpAI) engine trained on 128 billion data points across 20+ industry verticals, delivering 90%+ reductions in accounting review time for its clients.