Manish Patel
Manish Patel is a General Partner at XYZ Venture Capital, having joined the firm in August 2026. He previously founded Nava Ventures and served as a General Partner at Highland Capital Partners for eleven years, and was an early Google employee where he worked on products including AdWords, AdSense, and Google Maps. He holds a teaching appointment in the School of Engineering at Stanford University, where he co-teaches a foundational design thinking course, and is a Fellow at the University of Toronto's Creative Destruction Lab.
“Manish Patel | Incoming GP, XYZ Venture Capital | Joining XYZ from Nava Ventures; Stanford engineering faculty; former Google; will focus on AI infrastructure, programmable markets, emerging consumer”
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