Scott Cara

Scott Cara is the Co-founder and CEO of Elevate AI, an enterprise data infrastructure startup based in New York, NY. The company, which participated in the Y Combinator Summer 2024 batch, recently raised $500,000 in pre-seed funding to build AI-powered data management tools for private equity-backed businesses managing $50 million to over $1 billion in total assets. Previously, Cara served as a Vice President at Sycamore Partners, a private equity firm with over $10 billion in assets under management, and worked as a management consultant at Bain & Company. He holds an MBA from Harvard Business School and studied Computer Science and Mathematics at Duke University. His current focus centers on bridging his background in private equity and software engineering to develop scalable artificial intelligence solutions for acquisitive financial enterprises and corporate roll-ups.