Akshit Kandi

Founder & CEO at Festiva Capital

About

Akshit Kandi is a serial founder, investor, and AI leader based in New York. Originally from Hyderabad, India, he moved to the US at 17 to study Computer Science and Entrepreneurship at Purdue University and Tsinghua University. After a career at Salesforce where he launched zero-to-one products for Data Cloud and Agentforce, presenting to Fortune 10 CXOs, he founded Festiva Capital - a venture studio incubating data and AI companies. He is also a Venture Partner at Erez Capital and an angel investor in companies including OpenAI.

Origin Story

From Salesforce to Venture Studio: Building the Data & AI Ecosystem

How Akshit Kandi is leveraging his Fortune 500 AI experience to incubate and invest in the next generation of data-driven companies.

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Company

Festiva Capital

Venture studio investing in and incubating data and AI companies.

SeedVenture Capital

Festiva Capital is a venture studio and investment firm focused on the Data and AI space. It incubates companies in-house and invests in founders with deep industry expertise who need support with technology and go-to-market strategy. The firm operates an ecosystem spanning dev, back-end, and go-to-market resources across the US, India, and Australia.

Education

Tsinghua University

Bachelor's in Entrepreneurship

Purdue University

Bachelor's in Computer Science

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