Vishal Sikka, former CEO of Infosys and ex-CTO of SAP, has launched a new AI startup backed by Mayfield and Aramco Ventures. The venture pulls engineers and executives from SAP, Infosys, and Sikka's prior company VianAI. The target is direct: disrupt the $400 billion IT services industry.
The pitch is not another AI wrapper. Sikka is positioning this as a structural challenge to how enterprises buy and deploy technology services, the kind of work currently owned by Infosys, Wipro, and Accenture. His operating history at two of the largest enterprise software and services organizations on earth gives him unusual standing to know where those models are brittle.
What the article does not fully resolve is the product specifics and go-to-market timeline. That gap is exactly why it is worth reading in full. The investor names, the team composition, and Sikka's own framing of what breaks in legacy IT services under AI pressure tell you more about the near-term enterprise AI land grab than any analyst report will.
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