Speakers

Ron Nachum is the co-founder and CEO of Sapien, a proactive intelligence system for finance and operations driving 8-figure impacts from mid-markets to the Fortune 500. Sapien's platform enables AI agents to work directly across systems of record—from ERPs and data warehouses to CRMs and spreadsheets—enabling companies to better analyze, understand, and optimize their operations in real time.

Sapien is leveraged by public companies like Bayer, Cooper Standard and Blink Charging, as well as large private equity portfolios including Atlas Holdings. Across deployments, the platform has uncovered multi-million-dollar errors, driven 8-figure financial impact, and replaced thousands of hours of manual reporting with automated, deeply granular analysis. Use cases range from management and 10-Q reporting to inventory and pricing optimizations to gross margin and variance insights to ad-hoc analysis and proactive business driver analyses.

The company is backed by leading investors including General Catalyst and Neo, alongside executives from OpenAI, Google, Microsoft, and more, scaling rapidly off the back of new fundraising as enterprises adopt AI to transform core financial, operational, and analytical workflows.

Before founding Sapien, Ron worked in applied AI research across computer vision, machine learning, and large language models, most recently at Harvard’s Kempner Institute.

Sapien

Sapien is an AI-native platform for financial and operational intelligence, built for the complex portcos where SAP, NetSuite, and legacy ERPs hide the real levers of value creation. Our live agents learn each company's chart of accounts, cost centers, and operating model — then deliver variance analysis, gross margin, driver-based forecasts, anomaly detection, and board-ready management reporting in minutes, with every number tied back to source. Atlas Holdings runs Sapien across portfolio companies including Carlex and RESRG Automotive — Carlex caught a $12M error in week one. Other customers include Cooper Standard, Blink Charging, Bayer, &pizza, and Odeko; &pizza saves 30+ hours of finance work weekly. It's how operating partners get portfolio-wide financial rigor without ripping out existing systems — SOC 2 Type II, data never leaves the portco, never used to train models. Backed by General Catalyst, Neo, and endorsed by Ken Chenault, Sapien is how top-quartile operators turn messy portfolio data into margin.