Dinesh Katiyar is a Partner at Accel based in the San Francisco Bay Area who joined the firm in 2011 after founding. See sector focus and contact routes.
Dinesh Katiyar is a Partner at Accel based in the San Francisco Bay Area who joined the firm in 2011 after founding iLeverage (acquired by E.piphany) and SayNow (acquired by Google). He focuses on early-stage enterprise companies pursuing global market opportunities, with a specific emphasis on cross-border SaaS startups that sell in the US while maintaining engineering teams in India. Katiyar typically writes checks between $15 million and $70 million for seed and Series A rounds in cloud infrastructure, enterprise applications, and AI-powered B2B platforms. His notable portfolio companies include Delightree, Entytle, MindTickle, Spendflo, and Zinier, for which he serves as a board member or director. He advocates for India’s potential as a hub for globally competitive enterprise software, drawing parallels to Israel’s role in the SaaS ecosystem. Katiyar holds a PhD in Computer Science from Stanford University and a B.Tech from IIT Kanpur, which informs his operational focus on building distributed startups across borders.
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