Naimish Patel
Proto Ventures at Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Boston, Massachusetts
Overview
Work Experience
Executive Chaiman
2025 - Current
Advisory Board Member, MIT Proto Ventures
2022
MIT Proto Ventures is a venture studio formed to identify transformative technology ventures in fusion and clean energy.
Board Member
2021
Flume is a modern fiber company bringing new home broadbands options.
Raised $8,709,992.00 from The House Fund, Amplo, Cold Start Ventures, Citi Impact Fund, Everywhere Ventures and Hyperplane.
Advisor
2021
Advisor
2019
Elucidata delivers ML-ready biomedical molecular data that is curated to accelerate drug discovery.
Raised $23,580,000.00 from Eight Roads Ventures, F-Prime Capital, IvyCap Ventures and Hyperplane.
Partner
2019 - 2023
• Led deal sourcing, diligence, and closure of seed-stage investments across sectors including IoT, AI-based predictive platforms, computational biology, networking infrastructure, and telecom services. • Supported portfolio companies through product development, market strategy and sales, operations, and fund raising. • Helped raise Hyperplane’s inaugural Opportunity Fund, aimed at increasing Limited Partner exposure to later-stage financings of select portfolio companies.
Hyperplane is an investment firm backing exceptional founders building machine intelligence and data companies.
Board Member
2021 - 2022
Butlr is a physical AI startup that specializes in wireless anonymous people sensing and occupancy detection solutions.
Raised $68,000,000.00 from Ray Stata, Jason Haider, Pacific Alliance Ventures, Yves Behar, The E14 Fund, Pavan Ongole, GS Futures, Union Labs Ventures, Joi Ito and Carrier.
Board Observer
2020 - 2021
Biotia is a health tech startup offering AI-based solutions to diagnose and control infectious disease.
Raised $10,400,000.00 from Tau Ventures, Phoenix Venture Partners, SpringTide Ventures, SeedToB Capital, SK Square Americas, Mayo Clinic Platform, OCA Ventures, Continuum Health Ventures, DigitalDx Ventures and Leawood Venture Capital.
Executive In Residence
2018 - 2019
• Explored and evaluated investment opportunities at the intersection of life sciences and computation.
General Catalyst partners with ambitious founders to drive resilience and applied AI from seed to growth.
Board Member
2015 - 2017
• AEE is a national energy regulatory policy association dedicated to propelling grid modernization and fostering economic growth within the advanced energy sector. • Spoke on behalf of AEE at industry conferences and events, including providing expert testimony at a Congressional Committee on Energy and Commerce regarding security and reliability of the electric grid.
Advanced Energy United is a provider of reliable energy that accelerates the transportation of electricity.