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Vivek Patel

Co-Owner at Gemino Capital

San Francisco, California

Overview 

Vivek Patel is an accomplished entrepreneur and operator based in San Francisco, California, currently serving as Co-Owner at Gemino Capital. With a background that includes key roles at Postmates Inc. and successful investments in companies like FitOn and Gecko Robotics, Patel excels in venture capital, start-ups, and strategic business development. Having held positions such as Chief Operating Officer at Postmates Inc. and Co-Founder at Sosh, Vivek Patel has demonstrated expertise in leading successful ventures and making impactful investments, particularly in sectors like Space, DeepTech, and Robotics.

Work Experience 

  • Co-Owner

    2021 - Current

    Investment vehicle for our family and our friends. We partner with extraordinary people working on transformative ideas. Stage and sector agnostic.

  • Board Member

    2024

Hyphen automates culinary operations for the restaurant and foodservice industry.

Raised $58,000,000.00 from Marc Rowan, SC Master Fund, Compound, Tiger Global Management, Pathbreaker Ventures, Chipotle Mexican Grill, Kitchen Fund and Morado Ventures.

  • Chief Operating Officer

    2015 - 2021

    Acquired by Uber (2021). Led bizops, product/eng (internal ops, merchant, support), sales (enterprise, inside, am), bd & partnerships, corp dev, fraud, support (customer, courier, merchant).

Serve is a friendly, autonomous delivery robot.

  • Co-Founder, COO/CFO

    2010 - 2015

    Acquired by Postmates (2015). Sosh was founded by former Google & Slide employees and is backed by amazing investors (Khosla Ventures, Keith Rabois, Naval Ravikant).

Sosh is a social mobile app that enables members to discover local activities, events and places.

Raised $16,254,000.00 from Battery Ventures, Donald Graham, Khosla Ventures, Hamilton South and Mike Krieger.

  • Business Development

    2010 - 2010

    Acquired by Google (2010).

Slide enables users to create and personalize widgets and use them on social networks, blogs and desktops.

Raised $78,000,000.00 from T. Rowe Price and Fidelity.

  • Business Development

    2009 - 2010

    Acquired by Monsanto (2013).

  • Senior Associate Consultant

    2006 - 2009

    LA & SF. Technology, Aerospace & Defense, Private Equity, Healthcare.

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