# Vijay Sikka

> Vijay Sikka is the founder, chairman and CEO of Sikka.ai (Sikka Software Corporation), a San Jose company that runs a single AI-API cloud platform for the roughly $1 trillion retail healthcare market. He started building AI systems as a college student in the mid-1980s and has spent more than 25 years on large-scale decision systems at Intel, NIH, GlaxoSmithKline, Roche and UCSF affiliates. After founding and exiting two earlier companies, IBrain Software and Bodha.com, he grew Sikka into a platform reaching tens of thousands of practices and over 120 million patients, and was named AI-Driven Healthcare Solutions CEO of the Year for 2024.

- **Role:** Founder, Chairman and CEO at Sikka.ai (Sikka Software Corporation)
- **Organizations:** Sikka.ai (Sikka Software Corporation), IBrain Software, Inc., Bodha.com
- **Education:** M.S. in Electrical Engineering and Artificial Intelligence, Syracuse University, New York, Doctoral studies in Neurosciences (incomplete Ph.D.), Stanford University
- **Known for:** Grew Sikka Software from a startup to 35,000+ practice installations and 120 million patients on its platform, Built an ecosystem of 50+ companies building applications on the Sikka supply side, Named AI-Driven Healthcare Solutions CEO of the Year (2024)

## Career timeline

- **1996** — Founded IBrain Software, Inc., competing with Informatica, Hyperion and Cognos; served as CEO
- **1998** — IBrain Software acquired by Entigen Corporation, later part of Roche
- **2000s** — Co-founded Bodha.com, acquired by Peregrine Systems/Remedy, later part of BMC Software
- **2019** — Invited keynote speaker at Digital Health World Conference
- **2020** — Keynote at Digital Health World Conference, AI Global Forum, and Biohacking Congress London
- **2024** — Named AI-Driven Healthcare Solutions CEO of the Year
- **2025** — Sikka.ai launches first agentic framework and no-code AI-API++ platform for retail healthcare

## Achievements

- Grew Sikka Software from a startup to 35,000+ practice installations and 120 million patients on its platform
- Built an ecosystem of 50+ companies building applications on the Sikka supply side
- Named AI-Driven Healthcare Solutions CEO of the Year (2024)
- Launched the first agentic framework and no-code AI-API++ platform for the $1 trillion retail healthcare industry
- Authored 'Maximizing ROI on Software Development' (Taylor and Francis International)
- Founded and exited two prior companies (IBrain Software, Bodha.com)
- Published and presented at IJCNN, SPIE, IEEE, AAAI, CHMT and the precursor to NeurIPS

## Latest updates

- **2025-01** — Recognized as AI-Driven Healthcare Solutions CEO of the Year for 2024
- **2025-01** — Sikka.ai launched its first agentic framework and no-code AI-API++ platform for the retail healthcare industry

## Links

- Website: https://sikka.ai
- LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/vijay-sikka-14a43b57/
- Twitter/X: https://twitter.com/SikkaSoftware
- Facebook: https://facebook.com/SikkaSoftware

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Last updated: 2026-06-04