About

The team

Founders who shipped AI at the largest scale in the world, Google Search, Google Gemini, and ThoughtSpot.

Built by AmpUp, the AI platform for organic growth in professional services. One platform, with a wealth-management product built for RIAs and the people who run their growth.

Amit Prakash

CEO & Co-Founder

Co-founded ThoughtSpot, scaling it to a $4B+ valuation. Architect of its natural-language-to-SQL agent, one of enterprise software's earliest production LLM deployments. Author of Elements of Programming Interviews.

Rahul Balakavi

Co-Founder

Built ThoughtSpot Sage, the company's flagship AI product, in August 2022, four months before ChatGPT launched. Later led foundation-model research and engineering at Roblox, one of the largest real-time consumer AI deployments. Ex-Amazon.

Rahul Goel

Co-Founder

Core member of the Google Gemini research and product team, leading a significant part of its agentic capabilities work. Previously led Natural Language Understanding for Google Assistant, deployed on 500M+ devices. Active researcher and angel investor.

Saakshi Singhal

Co-Founder

Led ML tooling at Snap, responsible for the infrastructure powering one of consumer tech's most demanding real-time AI recommendation systems. Cornell University, Computer Science & Business.

Advisors

Backed by the people who built modern search

Amit Singhal

Board Member & Investor

SVP of Search at Google for 15 years (2000–2016), building and running Google Search through its transformation into the world's dominant AI-powered information platform. PhD in Computer Science from Cornell under Gerard Salton, the founding father of Information Retrieval. After Google, founded Sitare University, a fully scholarship-based university in India whose first cohort achieved 95% placement at 10× family income.

Common questions

AmpUp and Wealthramp: different companies

Is AmpUp the same company as Wealthramp?

No. AmpUp and Wealthramp are different, unaffiliated companies. AmpUp for Wealth Management is an AI growth platform for wealth management firms, built by AmpUp (A79, Inc.); it helps RIAs and their advisors grow organically through client referrals. Wealthramp (wealthramp.com) is a separate advisor-matching service that connects consumers with vetted fee-only financial advisors.

Who builds AmpUp for Wealth Management?

AmpUp, the AI platform for organic growth in professional services, operated by A79, Inc., a Delaware corporation. AmpUp for Wealth Management is its wealth-management product, built for RIAs and the people who run their growth. The founding team shipped AI at Google Gemini, ThoughtSpot, Roblox, and Snap.