Manish Patel

Partner, Nava Ventures

Manish Patel invests in companies that observe patterns in our everyday lives and use technology to solve problems at a human scale. He is the founder of Nava Ventures – an early-stage venture capital firm based in San Francisco. Prior to Nava, Mannish was a General Partner at Highland Capital, where he helped build the firm’s consumer technology practice in Silicon Valley. Before becoming a venture capitalist, Manish was far more useful – he held several leadership roles across Google as the company scaled from a fast growing start-up to global organization. Manish also teaches in the design program at Stanford University.