Profile

Ashvin Patel

Location: USA

Ashwin Patel is a co-founder and Managing Director at Morado Venture Partners. He is also a member of the board of directors of Docyt. He is also on the board of directors of DataTorrent Inc.

NUMBER

#281

Xs

43

Investments

58

Exits

41
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Overview
About Ashvin Patel
Number of Portfolio Companies 8
Location USA

Ashwin Patel is a co-founder and Managing Director at Morado Venture Partners. He is also a member of the board of directors of Docyt. He is also on the board of directors of DataTorrent Inc. He has served on the board of directors of ShoCard. He is also an investor in Docker. He has long held leadership positions in product development and engineering at Yahoo! Inc., most recently serving as the company’s chief technology evangelist. He began his career at Yahoo! at the dawn of the Internet, joining the company’s engineering department in 1996. At Yahoo! he held a number of positions, including senior vice president of platform development, chief product officer and executive vice president of the audience platform division. Early in his tenure at the company, he created My Yahoo!, the registration and login platforms, and the back-end infrastructure for Yahoo! Finance. He later developed the back-end infrastructure for Yahoo! Messenger, eventually building the team that launched that product. Over eight years, he grew his engineering team to about 1,500 people. Together, Ash and his team grew Yahoo!’s infrastructure to serve hundreds of millions of users. Since leaving Yahoo! Ash has invested in more than 12 early-stage companies. He is a board member of Data Torrent, Breakthrough. Mr. Patel holds a B.S. in Computer Science from King’s College, University of London.

ASHVIN PATEL

Technology Venture Capitalist | Strategic Investment Leader

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

E12 Ventures Founding Partner | December 2022 – Present

  • Provide strategic leadership in venture capital investments
  • Identify and support emerging technology companies
  • Develop comprehensive investment strategies in technology sectors

Morado Ventures, LLC Managing Director | December 2010 – Present

  • Specialize in seed-stage investments in Internet Technology companies
  • Evaluate and support innovative technology startups
  • Drive strategic growth and development of portfolio companies

Independent Ventures Advisor & Investor | March 2010 – Present

  • Provide strategic guidance to emerging technology companies
  • Leverage extensive experience in technology investment and development
  • Support entrepreneurial ecosystem through targeted investments

Savioké Board Member | November 2015 – 2020

  • Contributed strategic insights to company leadership
  • Supported organizational growth and development initiatives

DataTorrent Inc. Board Member | May 2013 – 2018

  • Provided governance and strategic oversight
  • Supported technology innovation and company development

Ashvin Patel Investment Portfolio

  • Deal Date: 31-Oct-2022
  • Deal Type: Seed Round
  • Industry: Business/Productivity Software
  • Company Stage: Generating Revenue
  • Lead Partner: Not Specified
  • Deal Date: 10-Jun-2022
  • Industry: Other Hardware
  • Company Stage: Generating Revenue
  • Deal Size: Not Specified
  • Lead Partner: Not Specified
  • Deal Date: 08-Oct-2020
  • Industry: Communication Software
  • Company Stage: Generating Revenue
  • Deal Size: Not Specified
  • Lead Partner: Not Specified
  • Deal Date: 09-Mar-2020
  • Industry: Restaurants and Bars
  • Company Stage: Generating Revenue
  • Deal Size: Not Specified
  • Lead Partner: Not Specified
  • Deal Date: 06-Nov-2019
  • Industry: Automotive
  • Company Stage: Generating Revenue
  • Deal Size: Not Specified
  • Lead Partner: Not Specified
  • Deal Date: 17-Oct-2018
  • Industry: Other Hardware
  • Company Stage: Generating Revenue
  • Deal Size: Not Specified
  • Lead Partner: Not Specified
  • Deal Date: 20-Jul-2016
  • Industry: Electronics (B2C)
  • Company Stage: Bankruptcy: Liquidation
  • Deal Size: Not Specified
  • Lead Partner: Not Specified
  • Deal Date: 19-Feb-2015
  • Industry: Application Software
  • Company Stage: Out of Business
  • Deal Size: Not Specified
  • Lead Partner: Not Specified
  • Deal Date: 10-Feb-2015
  • Deal Type: Seed Round
  • Industry: Business/Productivity Software
  • Company Stage: Generating Revenue
  • Deal Size: Not Specified
  • Lead Partner: Not Specified
  • Deal Date: 05-Sep-2014
  • Deal Type: Early Stage VC
  • Industry: Business/Productivity Software
  • Company Stage: Generating Revenue
  • Deal Size: Not Specified
  • Lead Partner: Not Specified

EDUCATION

King’s College London Bachelor of Science, Computer Science | 1983 – 1986

CORE COMPETENCIES

  • Technology Venture Investment
  • Startup Ecosystem Development
  • Strategic Business Leadership
  • Technology Entrepreneurship
  • Scalability and Monetization Strategies

CONTACT INFORMATION

  • Location: Sunnyvale, California, United States

LinkedIn Connections: 500+ – Professional Followers: 2,220

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ENTRY ROUND
VALUATION at entry ($M)
Xs
VALUATION 
Series A
$3M
700
$2 100M
$5M
400
$2 000M
$6,5M
200
$1 300M
Seed
$6M
170
$1 020M
$30M
140
$4 200M
$17M
105,88
$1 800M
Series A
$20M
60
$1 200M
Series B
$81,12M
15,41
$1 250M

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