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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.

  • 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.

  • Board Attendee

    2016 - 2018

  • Board Attendee

    2016 - 2018

  • Board Attendee

    2015 - 2018

  • 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

  • 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

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