Vivek Patel
Co-Owner at Gemino Capital
San Francisco, California
Overview
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.