Rishi Ratan
Investment Director at The Gate Technologies Capital
New York City Metropolitan Area
Overview
Work Experience
Investment Partner
2023 - Current
Lead direct & fund investments in enterprise AI, critical infrastructure, and defense tech leaders for a multi-billion-dollar AUM single family office of the founders of Lazard & Eurazeo, driving fundamental value-oriented investment approach to private & cross-over public equities.
Managing Partner
2019
Lead venture investments for my family office in a concentrated long term oriented strategy focused on companies and funds leveraging breakthrough digital technologies to modernize critical infrastructure. Notable Private Investments - Databricks (Series J), Epirus (Series D), Shield AI (Series F), Machina Labs (Series B), Saronic (Series A), Anthropic (Series B), Formic (Series B), 201 Ventures (European Defense Tech Fund), Pryon (Series B), Modern Intelligence (Series A), Red Leader Tech (Series A), Cion Digital (Series B), Bastille Networks (Series B), Uniswap Labs (Series B), D-Graph Labs (Seed), Qunnect (Seed), and Normal Computing (Seed).
Senior Manager - Corporate Development and Venture Capital
2021 - 2023
Led early/mid-stage [Series A - C] investments in disruptive startups within Applied AI, Edge Computing, Web3 + Metaverse enabling technologies & infrastructure tools, and Autonomous Systems sectors as part of Micron's $300M AI & Deep-Tech Fund. Notable investments: Eliyan, Red Leader, InWorld.ai, Avicena, Virtualness, and Normal Computing.
Micron Technology is a semiconductor company that produces DRAM, SDRAM, flash memory, SSD and CMOS image sensing chips.
Raised $6,150,410,400.00 from U.S. Department of Commerce.
Investor
2020 - 2021
Focused on early growth (Series A - Series C) investment opportunities within Enterprise SW and Deep-Tech/Hard-Tech (i.e. the Field Technology) sectors encompassing Next-Gen Communications/Computing technologies (ex: 5G, Space Communication, AI/Edge Hardware, and Quantum Computing), AI/ML Autonomous Systems, and Industry 4.0 (ex: IoT/Edge Computing, Next-Gen Battery/Energy Storage, Additive Manufacturing, and Advanced Materials) technologies. In-Q-Tel is the strategic venture capital arm of the US Intelligence Community and accelerates innovation by investing in cutting-edge technologies from prominent startups to strengthen the security of the US and it’s allies by supporting the missions of the CIA, NSA, NRO, DIA and the broader US Intelligence Community (IC).
IQT identifies and partners with companies developing cutting-edge technologies to help deliver solutions.
Corporate Strategy and Partnerships Lead - Azure AI & IoT Devices Incubation
2017 - 2019
Led the portfolio planning and strategic investment efforts to evangelize new experiences platforms, device form-factors, and promote new services across the next generation Intelligent Edge Devices (AI/Machine-Teaching, industrial-IoT autonomous systems, drones, connected cars) ecosystem with global partners.
Head of Product (Technical) - Wireless Systems in Microsoft Devices
2015 - 2017
Youngest lead PM in the WDG (Windows Devices Group) organization at Microsoft leading next generation product strategy and development. Evangelized wireless product features and system architecture of device with industrial design, mechanical/electrical engineering, manufacturing, and user-experience cross-functional teams to lead product development from design concept --> engineering prototype --> final mass-production product for Windows Mixed Reality Headsets, Surface Pro LTE, Surface Pro 4, Surface Book, and the Surface Dial.
Hardware Design Engineer - Surface Devices
2014 - 2015
Designed the 4G LTE hardware architecture and diagnosed/devised key system level noise mitigations needed for carrier certification and oversaw production at contract manufacturing facilities in Asia.
Microsoft Advertising provides digital advertising solutions.
Hardware Design Engineering Intern
2012 - 2013
Developed reference-handset design for QC WTR 9x35 Modem/Wireless transceiver chip used in iPhone 6S as part of the IPS (Integrated Platform Solution) group.
Wireless System Engineering Intern-CR&D
2012 - 2012
Deployed OTA LTE networks on AWS band and TV-White Space channel bands for the Advanced LTE Group and developed test-setup for LTE heterogeneous networks involving Relays, eNBs and UEs.
Ultra-Scan Corporation is an identity management solutions provider and a pioneer in development of high accuracy, fingerprint Technology.
Raised $18,000,000.00 from Tom Golisano.