Samer Hamadeh

Samer Hamadeh is the Founder and CEO of Zeel, while also serving as a Venture Partner at Lightspeed Venture Partners and Alpaca VC. Before launching the on-demand wellness platform in 2010, he co-founded and served as CEO of the career website Vault.com from 1996 until its sale to Veronis Suhler Stevenson in 2007. Under his leadership, Zeel has secured $23 million in total funding, including an $11 million Series B round in 2018 to expand its mobile application services. Hamadeh holds a Bachelor of Science in Chemistry and a Master of Science in Chemical Engineering from Stanford University, maintaining an active portfolio as an angel investor with over two dozen early-stage investments, including a notable exit to GrubHub Seamless. His current focus centers on scaling on-demand wellness technologies while advising emerging startups and guiding venture capital allocations.