About Sameer Gandhi

Mr. Sameer Gandhi serves as Partner at Accel. He serves as a Board Member at CrowdStrike Holdings. He serves as Board Member at Aura (Network Management Software). He serves as a Board Member at Wizard and Fictiv. Sameer Gandhi also serves as a Board Member at UCSF Foundation Investment Company. He served as a Board Member at DecisionLink. He served as a Board Member at Pango and Plex Systems. Sameer Gandhi serves as a Board Member at Orum, Public.com, Aura, Crowdstrike, Freshworks, and Yapstone. He joined Accel in 2008 and focuses on early-stage and growth investments in consumer, software, and services companies. He is responsible for investments such as Bonobos, BookMyShow, Collective, CrowdStrike, Dropbox, Dropcam (acquired by Google's Nest Labs), Flipkart, Hailo, Opower (NYSE: OPWR), Plex Systems, Quidsi (parent of diapers.com and soap.com; acquired by Amazon.com), ScaleArc, Sonatype, Sookasa, Spotify, StumbleUpon, Venmo (acquired by Braintree/eBay) and Yapstone. Prior to joining Accel, he was a Partner with Sequoia Capital, where he led investments such as Barracuda Networks (NYSE: CUDA), Dropbox, eHarmony, Gracenote (acquired by Sony), Sourcefire (NASDAQ: FIRE) and Trulia (NYSE: TRLA). He previously worked at Broadview International, an investment banking firm specializing in technology mergers and acquisitions, and at Oracle Corp. Sameer Gandhi is a board member and former President of the Western Association of Venture Capitalists and has been named multiple times to the Forbes Midas List for Top Tech Investors. He has a BSEE and MSEE from MIT and an MBA from the Stanford Graduate School of Business. Sameer Gandhi served as a Board Member at Tasting Room.less