Nafis Jamal

Nafis Jamal joined Accel in 2024 and works with product-oriented, early-stage teams focused on building consumer and enterprise applications and infrastructure.

He has been a member of the Accel Family for nearly 15 years, having worked at 3 Accel-backed early-stage companies. He started his career as a product manager at AdMob (acquired by Google in 2010). After that acquisition, he went on to co-found MoPub (acquired by Twitter in 2013) and serve as its CTO, where Accel was the seed and Series A lead. He was then CEO of Elements (acquired by Circle in 2022), a developer API for payments. For over a decade, Nafis has co-invested alongside Accel and served as a technical advisor to several companies in the Accel Family.

Nafis is originally from Louisiana and graduated with a BS and MS from Stanford, only to drop out of his PhD, all in Electrical Engineering and Physics.

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