Andrei joined Accel in 2014. Prior to Accel, Andrei spent several years as a quantitative trader at KCG, where he designed and implemented algorithmic trading strategies in equities and futures. His past experience includes collaborating with venture capital firm Foundation Capital in Menlo Park as part of their Young Entrepreneurs Program, and with Siemens Venture Capital where he helped identify innovative energy technology companies. Earlier he helped build a 3 – person hedge fund startup focused on algorithmic futures trading.
Originally from Romania, Andrei lived for 9 years in the United States, and is fluent in German and also speaks native Romanian. Andrei holds an MBA with Distinction from Harvard Business School, and an AB in Mathematics summa cum laude from Princeton University, where he also concentrated in Computer Science and Finance.
You qualify for an entrepreneur ticket if you fit ALL these three criteria.
You are:
– an active founder of a product focused business or a decision maker in a scaleup
– building your business should be your main professional activity
– running a company of at least two and less than 100 employees and it is less than 8 years old
– Do you fit ALL the three criteria above?
Please note: We curate our participants. Every ticket purchase will be checked and validated in accordance to whether the ticket holder fits in the respective category. We reserve the right to refund a ticket when a ticket category doesn’t fit.