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16Portfolio Exits
5About Ash Patel
Ash Patel is a Los Altos Hills-based angel investor who typically invests $25K - $100K in young companies. Patel aims to assist portfolio companies through efforts and expertise focused on scaling technology and infrastructure., product development and user experience and through leveraging of his network. He is currently Managing Director at morado Venture Partners and formerly held senior positions at Yahoo!. He holds a BS in computer science from King's College London.
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Latest Ash Patel News
Nov 17, 2022
Benzinga By Pr Newswire CEO and founder of innovative FinTech company fights for gender equality and mistreatment in personal suit against Ash Patel, Shazhad Khan, Houri Simon, John Friedemann, Neel Pinge, Alex Meruelo and Thomas McCullough LAS VEGAS, Nov. 17, 2022 /PRNewswire-PRWeb/ -- Today, National Merchants Association (NMA or Plaintiff), an innovative FinTech company, pro-business advocate and payments acquirer transforming the financial services industry, released details on Heather Altepeter's, CEO and founder of NMA, personal suit against Ash Patel, Shazhad Khan, Houri Simon, John Friedemann, Neel Pinge, Alex Meruelo, and Thomas McCullough, individually, as well as Commercial Bank of California (CBC), for allegedly collaborating to manipulate NMA as a way to enter the high-risk electronic payments processing industry and force NMA's female leadership out of the company, case number CVSW2202882; Superior Court of the State of California; Riverside County, Southwest Justice Center. AD AD In April 2022 Altepeter filed a 5-count suit against the executives involved and CBC for various alleged violations, including, Unfair Business Practices pursuant to California Business and Professions Code 17200 et al., Intentional Interference with Prospective Economic Relations, Negligent Interference with Prospective Economic Relations, Intentional Interference with Contractual Relations, and Inducing Breach of Contract. As it currently stands, Altepeter is suing for millions of dollars in damages and is in the process of completing written discovery as well as depositions with several individuals and entities involved in the case.
Ash Patel Investments
16 Investments
Ash Patel has made 16 investments. Their latest investment was in Headroom as part of their Angel on October 10, 2020.
Ash Patel Investments Activity
Date | Round | Company | Amount | New? | Co-Investors | Sources |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
10/8/2020 | Angel | Headroom | $5M | Yes | 4 | |
3/21/2016 | Seed VC | MegaBots | $2.4M | Yes | 7 | |
2/7/2015 | Seed VC | Sunshine | $2M | Yes | ||
2/17/2014 | Series B | |||||
2/13/2014 | Seed VC - II |
Date | 10/8/2020 | 3/21/2016 | 2/7/2015 | 2/17/2014 | 2/13/2014 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Round | Angel | Seed VC | Seed VC | Series B | Seed VC - II |
Company | Headroom | MegaBots | Sunshine | ||
Amount | $5M | $2.4M | $2M | ||
New? | Yes | Yes | Yes | ||
Co-Investors | |||||
Sources | 4 | 7 |
Ash Patel Portfolio Exits
5 Portfolio Exits
Ash Patel has 5 portfolio exits. Their latest portfolio exit was Local Motion on August 25, 2015.
Date | Exit | Companies | Valuation Valuations are submitted by companies, mined from state filings or news, provided by VentureSource, or based on a comparables valuation model. | Acquirer | Sources |
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8/25/2015 | Acquired | 1 | |||
Date | 8/25/2015 | ||||
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Exit | Acquired | ||||
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Sources | 1 |
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