Malinka Walaliyadde
Founder of AKASA
South San Francisco, California
Overview
Work Experience
CEO and Cofounder
2019 - Current
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.
AKASA is an AI-powered automation company for revenue cycle management in healthcare.
Raised $205,000,000.00 from Costanoa Ventures, Andreessen Horowitz, Bond and Nancy Xiao.
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.
Andreessen Horowitz is a stage-agnostic venture capital firm with assets under management across multiple funds.
Board Attendee
2016 - 2018
Board Attendee
2016 - 2018
Apeel Sciences develops plant-derived shelf life extension technology for fresh produce that improves quality and reduces food waste.
Raised $719,060,564.00 from Redbadge Pacific and KAAN Ventures.
Board Attendee
2015 - 2018
Omada Health is a digital behavioral medicine company that helps members change their mindsets to improve health and build lasting change.
Raised $528,520,000.00 from Trousdale Ventures, Wellington Management, Empede Capital, aMoon Fund, Civilization Ventures, Fidelity, Perceptive Advisors and Revelation Partners.
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
Analyst
2012 - 2013
Healthcare and financial services
Deloitte Tax is an advisory firm that provides tax preparation and advisory services.
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.
Co-founder & President
2009 - 2012
Co-founded student business operating in recruiting space, which connected 2000+ students with 100+ employers