Amit Kumar

Amit joined Accel in 2016 and works with early-stage teams across a number of consumer, b2b, and developer-oriented categories. Areas of particular focus include fintech and healthcare.

Amit has led Accel's investments in Headway, Chainalysis, Unit, Coast, Rainforest, Higo, Winden, Tailscale, Airbyte, Avenue, Smallstep, Hubble, ModernLoop, FitOn, Mayhem, Rex, and Smash. He also works with the teams at Flink, UserTesting, and Process Street.

Previously, Amit was an Accel entrepreneur as the co-founder of CardSpring, where he led engineering for its developer-facing API platform. Twitter acquired CardSpring, where he then led engineering for several of Twitter’s commerce initiatives.

Originally from Cupertino, California, Amit graduated from UC Berkeley with a degree in electrical engineering and computer science (EECS). Today, he leads the Accel Scholars program at Berkeley and sits on the EECS external advisory board.