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Dushyant Mishra
Dushyant Mishra is the founder and CEO of RapidClaims, a New York-based company building an AI-first platform for healthcare revenue cycle management. After nearly five years in commercial operations at Abbott and two years as an early-stage investor at Together Fund, he started RapidClaims in 2023 with co-founders Abhinay Vyas and Jot Sarup Singh to attack the roughly $350 billion administrative burden in US healthcare. The company automates medical coding, clinical documentation, claim scrubbing and denial recovery across 25+ specialties, has raised about $11 million including an $8 million Series A led by Accel, and grew roughly sixfold in its first year.
Jeffrey Morelli
Jeffrey Morelli is the co-founder and CEO of Silna Health, a New York company building an AI-powered Care Readiness Platform that automates prior authorizations, benefit checks, eligibility verification, and insurance monitoring for specialty healthcare providers. The son of a career nurse, he was the first sales hire at income-verification startup Truework and earlier worked at autism-care company Nightingale before starting Silna in August 2023 with Pavel Asparouhov and Sagar Jajoo. Silna has raised $27 million from Accel and Bain Capital Ventures and has helped more than 50,000 patients get cleared for care. In 2025 Morelli was named among the Healthcare Technology Report's Top Healthcare Technology CEOs.
Shay Sandler
Shay Sandler is co-founder and CEO of Vega, an Israeli cybersecurity company building a federated Security Analytics Mesh that queries security data where it lives instead of dragging it into a centralized SIEM. A former Israeli Unit 8200 officer and early team member at Granulate (acquired by Intel in 2022), Sandler started Vega in early 2024 with Eli Rozen after Intel wound down Granulate. In under two years Vega has raised $185M across three rounds, most recently a $120M Series B led by Accel in December 2025 at a valuation reported between $700M and $800M.
Vinay Patankar
Vinay Patankar is the co-founder and CEO of Process Street, an AI-powered workflow and compliance operations platform used by thousands of companies to run recurring checklists, onboarding, and standard operating procedures. A three-time founder and Y Combinator alum (W15), he was the youngest Cisco engineer in Australia at 16, left Sydney at 24 with a copy of The 4-Hour Workweek, and spent roughly a decade as a digital nomad building remote-first businesses before Process Street. The company has raised about $15M from Accel, Salesforce Ventures, and Atlassian and has been remote since day one.
Rani Mavram
Rani Mavram is the co-founder and CEO of Complete, a San Francisco compensation platform that turns the awkward salary conversation into an interactive offer letter. A UC Berkeley dual-degree grad and former Google product manager, she launched Complete through Y Combinator's Winter 2022 batch, raised a $4M seed led by Accel, and was named to the Forbes 30 Under 30 list for enterprise technology. Her pitch is simple: every company should know what it means to pay people, and no candidate should have to guess.
Ying Sheng
Ying Sheng is the co-founder and CEO of RadixArk, an AI infrastructure company that spun out of SGLang, the open-source inference engine she helped create in 2023. SGLang now runs across hundreds of thousands of GPUs and serves trillions of tokens a day for Google, Microsoft, NVIDIA, xAI and others. A Stanford computer science PhD and former xAI technical staff who co-led the inference team behind Grok, she launched RadixArk in May 2026 with $100 million in seed funding led by Accel at a $400 million valuation, on a mission to make frontier-level AI infrastructure open and accessible to everyone.
Amit Jhawar
Amit Jhawar is the CEO of Attentive, the AI-powered SMS and mobile marketing platform. Before martech, he spent a decade building payments: he was among the first 30 employees at Braintree, served as its CFO and COO, engineered the acquisition of Venmo, and then ran Venmo as CEO after PayPal bought the business. A former Accel partner, he joined Attentive as President in 2021 and was promoted to CEO in June 2023, where he has steered the company from SMS marketing into a broader AI-driven customer engagement platform.
Lydia Han
Lydia Han is the co-founder and CEO of ModernLoop, a recruiting operations platform she started in December 2020 to fix the chaos of coordinating hundreds of interviews. A product manager by training, she built Slack's calendar and Zoom integrations and set up Brex's interview process before founding the company through Y Combinator's W21 batch. ModernLoop has raised roughly $12.4M, including a $9M Series A led by Accel with the CEOs of Slack and Zoom writing checks, and powers hiring for companies like Ramp, Benchling, Chainalysis, and VSCO.
Katie Siegel
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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.