Malinka Walaliyadde
CEO and Cofounder at AKASA
South San Francisco, California
Invests in
Sectors:
Locations:
Min Investment:
$50,000.00Max Investment:
$50,000,000.00Target Investment:
$10,000,000.00
Skills
Education
Bachelor of Science
Work Experience
2019
CEO and Cofounder
2019
Financial complexity is crippling healthcare in America. At AKASA (fka Alpha Health), we’re on a mission to fix that by pioneering Unified Automation for healthcare revenue cycle management - we bring together the best of people, data and machine learning technology. Ultimately, we help health systems be better stewards of the healthcare dollar. Learn more at akasa.com.
2014 - 2018
Partner
2014 - 2018
Former Partner at Andreessen Horowitz (a16z), where I helped start and build their healthcare investment team (currently manages $1.4B in AUM). I worked on almost 20 investments totaling $250M across providers, payers, biotech companies and healthcare technology companies.
2016 - 2018
Board Attendee
2016 - 2018
2016 - 2018
Board Attendee
2016 - 2018
2015 - 2018
Board Attendee
2015 - 2018
2013 - 2014
Founding Team Member
2013 - 2014
1729 created opportunities for global talent. I was a founding team member there, and our CEO was Balaji Srinivasan, who I had worked with previously at Counsyl
2012 - 2013
Analyst
2012 - 2013
Healthcare and financial services
2012 - 2012
Product Analytics
2012 - 2012
Developed a genetic inheritance statistical model to calculate Counsyl’s operational risk and drive R&D for new offering. Reported directly to CTO.
Founding Team Member
2009 - 2012
Helped start student research lab to participate in an annual international genetic engineering competition (iGEM) held at MIT. Every year we built a new product with molecular biology, software and hardware components. Our team was a gold medalist at the international competition.
2009 - 2012
Co-founder & President
2009 - 2012
Co-founded student business operating in recruiting space, which connected 2000+ students with 100+ employers