Umair Akeel
Product Architect @ Twilio
San Francisco, United States
Umair Akeel is a seed investor at Twilio in San Francisco focused on Internet and Software. Chief technology officer in residence (CTO-IR) Umair Akeel is an operating partner at Bessemer Venture Partners. Umair brings 15 years of experience in technology development and leadership to Bessemer, focusing on machine learning, self driving/mobility as a service, and developer tools.Umair loves the process of building and growingproducts, teams and organizations, and as CTO in residence, he works closely with BVP-funded companies as an advisor. Interestingly, he’s been in their shoes before, having worked at two BVP-funded companies: he was Eloqua’s chief architect through its IPO and subsequent acquisition by Oracle (where he served as VP of product development), and earlier, he worked as a software engineer for Trigo Technologies—a company founded by BVP partner Byron Deeter.
- Total investments:
- 3
- Last investment:
- Lead investor:
- 0%
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Industries Umair Akeel invests in
Stages Umair Akeel invests in
Countries Umair Akeel invests in
Investment Focus
Industry
- Internet 2 (67%)
- Software 2 (67%)
- SaaS 1 (33%)
- Messaging 1 (33%)
- Developer APIs 1 (33%)
Stage
- Seed 2 (67%)
- Series A 1 (33%)
Investments
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Ampersand
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Ampersand is a company that creates a developer platform to assist SaaS companies in building user-facing integrations for their products. It reduces engineering and customer support time spent on creating and managing deep integrations with your customers' Systems of Record. | $4.7M / Seed / Apr 13, 2023 | |
Courier
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Courier offers an API that lets developers intelligently route user notifications across their existing channels – like SendGrid, Twilio, Slack, and Facebook Messenger – using factors like "is the user online?" and "which channel has produced the most engagement for this user previously?" | $10.1M / Series A / Sep 14, 2020 | |
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Courier
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Courier offers an API that lets developers intelligently route user notifications across their existing channels – like SendGrid, Twilio, Slack, and Facebook Messenger – using factors like "is the user online?" and "which channel has produced the most engagement for this user previously?" | $2.3M / Seed / Apr 26, 2019 |
Co-Investors
About Twilio
Twilio is a developer platform for communications and is reinventing telecom by merging the worlds of cloud computing, web services, and telecommunications. With Twilio, developers, and businesses make communications more contextual by embedding voice, video, messaging, and authentication directly into applications.
Twilio Contacts
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Andy O'Dower
Head of Product, Programmable Voice
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Luis Lopez
Principal Real Time Communications Strategist - WebRTC
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Umair Akeel
Product Architect
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Will Mason
Senior Technical Lead for Edge
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Aidan Viggiano
Chief Financial Officer
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FAQ
What does Umair Akeel invest in?
Umair Akeel invests primarily in Internet, Software and SaaS startups, most often at Seed and Series A stage. Most of the 3 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 Umair Akeel last invest?
The most recent investment recorded for Umair Akeel closed in Apr 2023. Shizune tracks 3 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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