HMP Global July 22, 2024
Can you share a brief overview of your professional history?
My name is Malinka Walaliyadde, and I am the CEO and a co-founder of AKASA, the preeminent provider of generative AI solutions for the health care revenue cycle. Before AKASA, I was a partner at Andreessen Horowitz (a16z), a Silicon Valley venture capital firm with $42B in assets under management. I helped start their health care investment team and worked on almost $250M of investments across 20 health care companies, including providers, payers, biotech, and health technology.
My co-founders and I started AKASA because we all noticed a common trend: no one was solving the pervasive issues in the back end of health care with modern approaches. There was...