Ravi Belani (he/him)

Ravi Belani is the Founder and Managing Director of Alchemist Accelerator, a venture backed accelerator for enterprise startups. Ravi also is an Adjunct Lecturer at Stanford University, where he leads the Entrepreneurial Thought Leaders Seminar (the largest class on entrepreneurship at Stanford). Ravi formerly worked in venture capital as part of the investment team at DFJ in Menlo Park. Through Alchemist and DFJ, Ravi has been the 1st or 2nd institutional check in 4 unicorns – Twitch, LaunchDarkly, Pubmatic, and Rigetti. Ravi holds a BS and MS in Engineering from Stanford, and an MBA from Harvard Busines School.