Taz Patel
Advisor at Breadcrumbs
San Francisco Bay Area
Overview
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.
Education
Bachelor
2001 - 2005