Andrew Bellay is the founder of MetaNeer Labs, a San Francisco Bay Area software studio focused on building thoughtful digital products, prototypes, and AI-enabled tools. Across his career, he has worked at the intersection of software, product development, entrepreneurship, and innovation – helping teams turn messy ideas into clear workflows, usable prototypes, and functioning products.
Andrew has founded three companies and worked with hundreds more as a designer, developer, advisor, investor, and product-minded technologist. He co-founded MetaNeer Labs in 2010, helped build software for higher education and mobile markets, and later helped create FounderSoup, a Stanford-born founder network that supported early startup formation. Earlier in his career, he covered venture capital and entrepreneurship in Silicon Valley, interviewing and working around many of the investors, founders, and operators who shaped the modern startup ecosystem.
Most recently, Andrew completed a seven-year in-house stint at the second largest health insurance company in the U.S., where he worked on digital transformation and most recently ran AI tooling for tens of thousands of associates. That experience sharpened his belief that the hardest part of new technology is rarely just whether it can be built. The harder question is whether real people will trust it, understand it, adopt it, and use it at the moment it matters.
Andrew is a student of strategy, but his work is intentionally practical. He is especially interested in how small, focused teams can use AI to compress the distance between insight, prototype, feedback, and iteration. He holds a BS in Chemical Engineering and a BA in Liberal Arts from the University of Texas at Austin, and an MS in Management Science and Engineering from Stanford University.
