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Taz Patel

Advisor at Breadcrumbs

San Francisco Bay Area

Overview 

Taz Patel is a seasoned entrepreneur and investor, having co-founded Captiv8 and made significant investments in various startups, including CloudAdmin.io and ecoATM. Currently, he serves as an active investor supporting startups in diverse sectors such as Entertainment & Sports, AgTech, and FinTech, while also providing strategic advisory services to companies like Playmaker and Blue Wire Podcasts. Patel's career highlights include co-founding Captiv8 and making impactful investments in companies like ecoATM. He currently plays a crucial role as an active investor and advisor in the startup ecosystem, supporting a wide range of sectors and providing strategic guidance to emerging businesses.

Work Experience 

  • Head of Advertising and Shopping

    2024 - Current

Perplexity is an AI-chat-based conversational search engine that delivers answers to questions using language models.

Raised $165,000,000.00 from IVP, Wayra and SoftBank Vision Fund.

  • Co-Founder

    2015

    Advisor, Present Cofounder, Chief Revenue Officer

Captiv8 is a full-service, end-to-end influencer marketing solution.

Raised $4,000,000.00 from Unanimous Capital and Beehive Capital.

  • Founding Member

    2024

    District is an exclusive membership community for the world’s top founders, investors and c-level operators.

  • Advisor

    2024

    Find your best pricing and packaging strategy and deploy it in a low-code way.

  • Part-Time Partner

    2021

    The House Fund is an AI pre-seed and seed-stage venture capital fund investing in UC Berkeley's top student, faculty, and alumni startups

  • Advisor

    2021

    Investigate & Monitor Blockchain transactions

  • EIR (2019 & 2024)

    2014 - 2024

    Mentors are united by their fierce passion to help startups succeed with 1:1 mentoring, amazing talks, holding office hours, dropping by our space to guide startups, and being there to lend advice and a helping hand.

500 Global is a multi-stage venture capital firm that invests in founders building fast-growing technology companies.

Raised $2,271,999.00 from Abu Dhabi Financial Group.

  • Venture Advisor

    2019 - 2023

    GCVC is an early-stage venture fund investing at the intersection of deep tech (AI, ML, Robotics) and traditional industries from farming to finance. I am an advisor to the GPs and portfolio company founders.

Green Cow Venture Capital is a venture capital firm that invests in the seed and Series A stage.

  • Mentor

    2013 - 2023

    Hands-on help. Daily. Our mentor network of 200+ industry leaders assist with everything from product development to sales and marketing to fundraising. Experienced entrepreneur talks, CTO roundtables, and expert workshops provide additional opportunities to learn—and share what you know.

(ERA) Entrepreneurs Roundtable Accelerator is an early-stage venture capital fund and technology accelerator.

  • Chief Business Officer

    2022 - 2023

    Acquired by BETCO.ST - https://www.finsmes.com/2023/07/better-collective-acquires-playmaker-hq.html Playmaker is a new-age media, talent & merchandise company. The company currently influences more than 20 million followers across its social media, 50+ athletes under management and more than 35 original shows on Snap Discover. In addition to its flagship sports content, Playmaker operates independent branded verticals including betting, entertainment, basketball and esports. Playmaker won Front Office Sports’ 2022’s Best Employer In Sports award, has content that has been selected by 3 film festivals, and has advisors such as Phil Hellmuth, Tracy McGrady, among others.

  • Strategic Advisor

    2021 - 2023

Playmaker is a sports media platform and content machine with a 40M+ audience.

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