Katie Siegel is the co-founder and CEO of Flipturn, the New York software company building the control center for electric fleet and charger operations. An MIT-trained engineer who was among the first dozen builders at Samsara before its IPO and co-founded Impira (acquired by Figma), she now points her fleet-software expertise at the least glamorous, most consequential problem in electrification: keeping commercial EV chargers actually working. Flipturn has raised about $26.5M, including an $11M Series A led by CRV, and counts the City of Seattle, Purolator, Republic Services, and Swift Transportation among its customers.
Finbarr Taylor is a Scottish-born software engineer turned startup founder and investor, best known for co-founding Shogun, an e-commerce page builder platform that raised $115M and reached a $507.5M valuation. After nearly 11 years building Shogun - including roughly 8 as CEO - he transitioned to a board role in early 2026 and rejoined Y Combinator as a Visiting Partner. A prolific angel investor with 60+ portfolio companies including Deel and Fathom Video, Taylor is now a vocal advocate for lean, AI-enabled teams and the rise of what he calls 'nanocorns' - small but highly efficient companies capable of billion-dollar outcomes.
John Glasgow is the founder, CEO, and CFO of Campfire, the AI-native ERP platform built for high-growth tech companies. A 15-year finance veteran who passed through Adobe, Invoice2go, and Bill.com before founding Campfire during parental leave in 2023, Glasgow has raised over $100 million in funding — $35M Series A and $65M Series B in just 12 weeks — and is steering the company toward an IPO. His platform's proprietary Large Accounting Model (LAM) achieves 95% accuracy on financial workflows, and customers like Replit, Decagon, and PostHog have traded NetSuite for Campfire's AI-first stack.
Peter Doyle is Co-Founder and CEO of Treeline, a San Francisco-based startup reimagining corporate IT operations through AI and software automation. A decade-long venture capitalist at Accel who backed companies like PagerDuty, Heptio, and ServiceChannel, Doyle made the leap to operator in 2024. Treeline - backed by $25 million in Series A funding led by Andreessen Horowitz - is building what Doyle calls a 'modern IT operating system': an AI-first alternative to the legacy managed service provider model that still powers most of the world's corporate IT infrastructure.
Ellen Rudolph is the Co-Founder and CEO of WellTheory, a San Francisco-based digital health company on a mission to reverse the autoimmune epidemic. A Stanford-trained product design engineer and Functional Medicine Certified Health Coach, Ellen founded WellTheory in 2022 after her own years-long battle with debilitating autoimmune symptoms drove her to create the empathetic, evidence-based care she wished she'd had. WellTheory has since raised $33.4M in total funding—including a $14M Series A led by General Catalyst in October 2025—and achieved 10x year-over-year member growth and 5x revenue growth, serving 50 million Americans navigating autoimmune conditions.
Ethan Choi is a Partner at Khosla Ventures leading the firm's Growth Fund, where he writes checks between $15M and $70M into cloud infrastructure, SaaS, enterprise, and consumer internet companies from Seed through Series C. Before joining Khosla in 2024, he was a Partner at Accel, where he backed Klaviyo (now NYSE: KVYO), 1Password, and Pismo (acquired by Visa). His investing philosophy pivoted from metrics-first to founder-first — he now spends 90% of his diligence energy on the people rather than the numbers. A former LDS missionary who spent two years in South Korea, Choi is an unusually direct voice on AI's disruption of white-collar work and the coming robotics inflection point.
Mor Chen is a Partner at Greylock Partners, one of Silicon Valley's most storied venture capital firms, where she focuses on early-stage Israeli founders building in cybersecurity and enterprise AI. A Unit 8200 veteran who set her sights on the IDF's most elite intelligence unit at age 14, Chen went on to study computer science and statistics at Tel Aviv University, work as a software engineer at VMware, consult at Strategy& on deals including Nvidia's acquisition of Mellanox, run the 8200 Alumni Association's accelerator, and invest at Accel in London before joining Greylock in January 2025. She is known for backing founders who are, in her words, 'irrationally driven, and will break walls to achieve their vision.'
Pramod Sharma is the Founder and CEO of Napkin AI, a generative-AI platform that converts plain text into editable business visuals - diagrams, flowcharts, infographics, and charts - in seconds. A farmer's son from Rajasthan who cracked IIT Delhi on self-study, he went on to earn a Master's from Stanford, architect Google Books' scanning machines, and then co-found Osmo, the award-winning educational-gaming company sold to Byju's for $120 million in 2019. In 2021 he and co-founder Jerome Scholler turned their frustration with corporate slide decks into Napkin AI, which emerged from stealth in August 2024 with $10 million in seed funding from Accel and CRV.
Kevin Efrusy is a Stanford-trained engineer-turned-entrepreneur-turned-venture-capitalist best known for personally sourcing Accel's $12.2M Series A investment in Facebook in 2005 - widely cited as one of the most profitable VC bets in history. A former co-founder of Corio (SaaS pioneer, IPO'd, acquired by IBM) and first CEO of IronPlanet, Efrusy joined Accel in 2003 and ranked #6 on the Forbes Midas List in 2011. He pioneered Accel's Latin America investment thesis after a year-long family sabbatical across South Africa, Brazil, and Japan in 2012, and has since backed unicorns including QuintoAndar ($5.1B), Gympass ($2.2B), and Nuvemshop ($3.1B). He transitioned to Emeritus Partner at Accel in 2019 and continues as an active angel investor and philanthropist through the Efrusy Family Foundation.
Rich Wong is a General Partner at Accel, one of the world's premier venture capital firms, where he has invested since 2006. A self-described 'accidental' venture capitalist with roots in mobile technology operations, he was the first outside investor and board member at Atlassian and led bets on UiPath, Rovio (Angry Birds), AdMob, and dozens of enterprise software companies globally. Known for his 'prepared mind' investment philosophy, his belief that the best companies can hide anywhere on earth, and his conviction that great VC is fundamentally a human business, Rich is one of Silicon Valley's most globally-minded and relationship-driven investors.
Sonali De Rycker is a General Partner at Accel's London office, one of the most influential venture capitalists in Europe. Originally from Mumbai, India, she joined Accel in 2008 after stints at Goldman Sachs and Atlas Venture, and has since backed some of the continent's most defining tech companies — Spotify, Monzo, BeReal, Synthesia, and Speak among them. Ranked No. 2 on Forbes Midas List Europe in 2019 and consistently in the top 15, she is known for her founder-first investment philosophy, her global deal-sourcing across 45+ cities, and a sharp conviction that Europe's next chapter will be written in AI.
Sara Ittelson is a Partner at Accel, the global venture capital firm, where she invests in early-stage AI, consumer, enterprise, and SMB technology companies. Before joining Accel in 2022, she spent four years at Faire as Head of Strategic Partnerships, helping the wholesale marketplace grow from a $535M to a $12.4B valuation, and four years at Uber spanning ride-share and Uber Eats. A Stanford MBA and GSE alum originally from Chico, California, Sara brings a rare blend of operator grit and investor acuity to founders building category-defining companies.