Summary
Ben Truitt is a founder and CEO who builds at the intersection of AI, financial services, and capital markets, applying rigorous engineering and machine learning to algorithmic trading and regulated enterprise SaaS. He runs two algorithmic hedge funds (BYTZ Fund LP since 2019 and SpireAI N² Fund LP) while single-handedly developing Fiatos’ Prism platform for retrieval-augmented generation and knowledge graphs tailored to regulated industries. His background blends hands-on product and underwriting automation experience in commercial real estate lending with fintech and applied-AI leadership, including systems that process billions in loans annually. Comfortable across strategy, systems architecture, risk management, and deployment, he uniquely combines an MBA in real estate finance with a data science fellowship and an engineering undergrad. Colleagues would note he repeatedly moves from concept to commercial deployment as a sole founder or CPO, bridging domain expertise with production-grade ML systems.
9 years of coding experience
12 years of employment as a software developer
MBA, Real Estate Finance and Investments, MBA, Real Estate Finance and Investments at University of Colorado Boulder - Leeds School of Business
Fellow, Data Science, Fellow, Data Science at Galvanize
Bachelor's Degree, Major: Mechanical Engineering, Minors: Business and Computer Science, Bachelor's Degree, Major: Mechanical Engineering, Minors: Business and Computer Science at University of Colorado Boulder