Shekhar Kirani

Shekhar focuses on investing in early-stage SaaS and enterprise software companies. During his decade-long career at Accel, he has led first institutional investments into several companies such as Freshworks, Chargebee, Zenoti, Browserstack, FalconX, ANSR, and Cogoport among others.

Shekhar has over 25 years of experience in business and tech leadership roles across several start-ups and major corporations in the US. He holds a PhD in Computer Science from the University of Minnesota and a Master’s degree from the Indian Institute of Science, Bangalore.