Saatvik is Co-Founder at Vela, a Y Combinator W26 AI scheduling assistant that handles complex coordination workflows with white-glove service at scale. He is a Z Fellow who dropped out of UChicago Booth to build Vela.

Saatvik was an award-winning engineer on AWS ML Supercompute team and completed two top-ranked programs at Carnegie Mellon (CS and Information Systems) in two years with highest honors. He filed his first patent at age 16 and interned at Grameen Bank studying microfinance.

Saatvik co-founded SWIFT at age 14, Oman's largest student-run microfinance institution that has disbursed over $400K in interest-free loans to 3,200+ women across 77 countries, impacting 74,000+ lives. He is a Diana Award recipient for humanitarian work.

Vela is part of Y Combinator Winter 2026 batch and serves enterprise recruiters scheduling thousands of interviews weekly and sales teams coordinating complex multi-party calls. The company is based in San Francisco with a team of 4.

SWIFT has supported over 3,000 women entrepreneurs in 77 countries to achieve financial independence and break poverty cycles. Vela already handles scheduling for professionals with the most demanding coordination workflows, from enterprise recruiting to startup CEOs.