Ravi Belani

Ravi Belani is the Managing Director of Alchemist Accelerator and the Fenwick & West Lecturer of Entrepreneurship at Stanford University. Before leading the enterprise-focused accelerator, he served on the investment team at Draper Fisher Jurvetson, where he directed early-stage investments and held board roles as the first institutional investor in companies like Vizu and Yield Software. His earlier career includes product management roles at enterprise startups backed by Kleiner Perkins and management consulting at McKinsey & Company. Belani holds a Master of Business Administration from Harvard Business School, alongside Master of Science and Bachelor of Science degrees in Industrial Engineering from Stanford University. At Alchemist Accelerator, he manages a seed-stage program supported by corporate and institutional partners including Cisco and Khosla Ventures. His current focus remains on advancing enterprise technology startups and delivering entrepreneurship education to emerging founders.