# Amit Kumar

> Amit Kumar is a seed investor at Accel (San Francisco) backing Software and Financial Services. See 46 investments, check sizes, portfolio. Updated Aug 2026.

- Type: Angel Investor
- Fund: [Accel](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/accel)
- Location: San Francisco, United States
- Total investments: 46
- Last investment: Jun 2026
- Lead investor: 48%
- Last updated: Aug 2026
- LinkedIn: http://www.linkedin.com/in/amitkuma
- X (Twitter): http://twitter.com/amitku
- Website: https://x.com/amitku
- Facebook: http://www.facebook.com/amitku

Amit Kumar is a seed investor at Accel in San Francisco focused on Software and Financial Services. Amit Kumar is based out of  San Francisco Bay Area, Californiaand is the Partner of Accel.  Amit previously a Co-Founder of accel backed CardSpring . Amit Kumar attended the UC Berkeley.

## Investment focus

### Industry

| Industry | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Software | 10 | 22% |
| Financial Services | 6 | 13% |
| Artificial Intelligence | 5 | 11% |
| FinTech | 4 | 9% |
| Payments | 4 | 9% |

55 industries tracked in total.

### Stage

| Stage | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Seed | 15 | 33% |
| Series A | 12 | 26% |
| Series B | 7 | 15% |
| Series C | 3 | 7% |
| Pre-Seed | 1 | 2% |

6 stages tracked in total.

### Country

| Country | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| United States | 19 | 41% |
| India | 2 | 4% |
| Mexico | 2 | 4% |
| Canada | 1 | 2% |

## Investments

| Company | Description | Amount | Stage | Date | Website |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| Hera | hera offers elderly care services, covered by original medicare. | $27M | Series A | Jun 25, 2026 |  |
| Sapiom | The agentic economy is here, but it cannot progress until AI agents can autonomously access and operate across real-world systems and services.Sapiom gives AI agents trusted access to the API economy.We provide the essential infrastructure (KYA, wallets, spending and usage controls, and multi-rail payments) to unlock secure, programmaticcommerce for the AI era.Built for the next era of commerce where agents buy, sell, and negotiate on our behalf.We're backed by world-class investors and are hiring exceptional engineers in SF to define the financial infrastructure for the agentic era.Learn more & join us: https://www.sapiom.ai | $15.8M | Seed | Feb 05, 2026 |  |
| Forus | From PA generation to appeals, enrollments, & pharmacy navigation, Forus handles the end-to-end medication access process. Forus supports every drug, insurance, and pharmacy to help patients get access to life-changing medications. | $123M | Series B | Jan 26, 2026 |  |
| Leona | Leona provides a platform designed to enhance communication between doctors and patients, particularly in pediatric care. The tool allows healthcare professionals to manage patient conversations efficiently, offering features like case management and automated response sorting for better prioritization. Doctors can address common concerns such asfever, rashes, and breastfeeding while reducing the time spent on administrative tasks. The app aims to improve the overall quality of interactions while making medical communication more streamlined and effective for both doctors and patients. | $14M | Seed | Dec 16, 2025 |  |
| Hera | hera offers elderly care services, covered by original medicare. | $7.2M | Seed | Dec 09, 2025 |  |
| Quanta | Quanta provides software companies with real-time financial clarity and empowerment. Quanta envision a world in which all business accounting tasks that are not creative in nature are automated, leaving finance teams and business owners to focus solely on strategic and creative work. | $15M | Series A | Dec 04, 2025 |  |
| Kaizen Labs | Kaizen Labs is a software company that helps city administrators transform resident experiences with simple digital products. | $21M | Series A | Oct 30, 2025 |  |
| Rainforest | Rainforest focuses on providing software platforms for payment processing. Rainforest is headquartered in Atlanta, United States. | $29M | Series B | Sep 05, 2025 |  |
| Tailscale | Tailscale develops a software-defined networking platform that simplifies the creation of secure private networks using the WireGuard protocol. Its solution enables devices to connect directly through peer-to-peer mesh networking, reducing latency and eliminating the need for traditional VPN configurations. The platform integrates with existingidentity providers, allowing for streamlined user authentication and access control. Tailscale supports various operating systems, including Windows, macOS, Linux, Android, and iOS, and offers compatibility with cloud services and Kubernetes environments. The company emphasizes ease of use and scalability, catering to teams and organizations seeking straightforward network security solutions. Tailscale builds on top of WireGuard’s Noise protocol encryption, a peer-reviewed and trusted standard. Their vision is to remove overhead and complexity from this long tail of software and operational problems that people face every day. | $161.4M | Series C | Apr 08, 2025 |  |
| Silna Health | Silna Health builds proactive tools that handle all prior authorizations, benefit checks and insurance monitoring upfront to make sure patients are actually clear to receive care. | $22M | Series A | Mar 25, 2025 |  |

10 of 46 investments shown.

## Co-investors
- [Heavybit](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/heavybit-industries) — VC Fund, 6 deals together
- [Insight Partners](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/insight-partners) — VC Fund, 6 deals together
- [Bain Capital Ventures](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/bain-capital-ventures) — VC Fund, 4 deals together
- [Better Tomorrow Ventures](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/better-tomorrow-ventures-bebf) — VC Fund, 4 deals together
- [Indigo Fund](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/indigo-fund) — VC Fund, 4 deals together
- [Operator Collective](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/operator-collective) — VC Fund, 4 deals together

## About Accel

VC Fund · Palo Alto, United States

Accel invests in sectors such as enterprise software, consumer internet, financial technology, and cybersecurity. It participates in funding rounds ranging from seed and pre-seed stages to growth-stage capital. Beyond direct investment, the organization offers operational resources to assist founders with product development and talent recruitment.The firm connects entrepreneurs with a network of industry peers and mentors to facilitate market expansion.

5 contacts available at Accel.

| Name | Title | Profile |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Abhinav Chaturvedi | Partner | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/abhinav-chaturvedi |
| Amit Kumar | Partners | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/amit-kumar-4 |
| Amy Saper | Partner | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/amy-saper |
| Anand Daniel | Partner | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/anand-daniel |
| Andrei Brasoveanu | Partner | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/andrei-brasoveanu |

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## FAQ

### What does Amit Kumar invest in?

Amit Kumar invests primarily in Software, Financial Services and Artificial Intelligence startups, most often at Seed and Series A stage. Most of the 46 investments tracked by Shizune back companies in United States. The Investment Focus section breaks down every industry, stage and country in the portfolio.

### When did Amit Kumar last invest?

The most recent investment recorded for Amit Kumar closed in Jun 2026. Shizune tracks 46 investments in total for this profile, including round sizes, stages and portfolio companies, all sourced from confirmed public funding rounds and refreshed monthly.

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