Rachel Sonnenberg

Rachel leads the Pilot Program for the AWS Investment Team to design and test experiments that assess enhancements to drive startup acquisition. Rachel’s focus at AWS is on Seed -Series B startups and AWS Venture Capital partners. Prior to Amazon, Rachel led investment and operational verticals as Chief of Staff at Kindred Ventures, a seed stage venture capital fund. Prior to Kindred, Rachel was an early employee at Y Combinator’s Continuity Fund, a growth stage team – partnering with their Accelerator and Series A teams and building out the Growth Stage program from inception. Previously, Rachel worked at North Run Capital, a Boston-based long short event driven hedge fund. Rachel began her investment career at Audax Group, a private equity firm focusing on middle market companies with an emphasis on add-on acquisitions.