Nitin Rai
Chairman, TiE Global
Oregon
Nitin Rai is Managing Director of Elevate Capital (elevate.vc) a venture fund that includes Elevate Inclusive Fund, a seed stage fund that invests indiverse and underserved entrepreneurs in Pacific Northwest. Nearly 60% of Elevate Capital investments are in women, and 40% in African American and LatinX founder/CEOs led startups.
Since 2016, Elevate has invested in over $5 Million in 24 startups. These
companies have raised follow-on funding of over $80 Million, with a market
cap of $250 Million and created 300 plus jobs. These companies also
report 50% of their employees as diverse. Elevate has already had an exit,
with one of its portfolio companies, Portland-based RFPIO.
Nitin Rai also serves as Chairman of TiE Global of Board Trustees. In this
role, Nitin leads the Board of Trustees mission to help its 60 plus global
chapters to help entrepreneurs become successful through global
programs and initiatives. Nitin serves as Chair of TiE Global Angels to help
entrepreneurs across the globe get funding from TiE Charter Members.
Since 2007 Nitin has been an active angel investor, mentor, and is a
founding charter member and President of the Board of TiE Oregon. In this
role, TiE Oregon has grown to a full-fledged angel investment group with a
successful mentoring program. It has launched several education and
accelerator programs including TYE and TIE XL. TiE Oregon Angels have
invested over $12 million in 52 startups with 6 exits that returned over 3X in
cash to the angels. TiE Oregon ranks in the top 5 chapters globally and
routinely receives recognition for its angel investment, women, and youth
programs. Nitin has invested in over 50 startups since 2011 personally and
through his fund.
Nitin is also a successful entrepreneur. He started his career in Silicon
Valley as an engineer in two startups. In 1994 he founded First Insight
Corporation (first-insight.com) a highly successful Electronic Health
Records (EHR) and practice management software company for eye care
professionals, based in Hillsboro, Oregon and Pune, India. First Insight is a
leader in the optometry and ophthalmology software industry with its
flagship product MaximEyes.
Tejpaul Bhatia
Tejpaul Bhatia, NY Startup Program Lead for Google Cloud
New York
Tejpaul Bhatia is the NY Startup Program Lead for Google Cloud. He was most recently an Entrepreneur in Residence at Citi Ventures. His most recent startup post was as COO for Explain Everything, an interactive screen casting whiteboard app. He also served as CEO and co-founder of Chatwala, a mobile video chat app and Kaptur (acquired), an app that enables users to aggregate photos taken at an event in seconds. Prior to founding Kaptur, Tej was Senior Manager of Product and International Strategy for ESPN, where he launched ESPN3 in the US, Mexico, Brazil, and Europe. He also co-founded Media Strategy Partners, a media asset management consulting company. Tej began his career as a digital media consultant at Scient and Sekani.
Alicia Syrett
Founder and CEO (Jan 2011 - Till Now)
New York
Alicia Syrett is Founder and CEO of Pantegrion Capital, LLC. Pantegrion TM is an angel investment vehicle focused on seed and early stage investments. The company seeks the following criteria in its investments: NY area companies across industries with a live product/service with 2-4 team members involved and a $1+ billion market opportunity with revenue potential of $100+ million in 5 years. It seeks a current company valuation in the ~$1 - 5 million range. Typical investments range from $10k - $50k per company. Pantegrion acts as a "reserve force" investor (i.e. available with guidance when needed but not control focused).
Ritvik Singh
Charter Member(Feb 2019 - Till Now) Charter Member(Jan 2018 - Till Now)
Co-Chair
Richa Naujoks
Charter Member(Feb 2019 - Till Now) Charter Member(Jan 2018 - Till Now)
Committee
Sam Bhattacharya
Charter Member(Feb 2019 - Till Now) Charter Member(Jan 2018 - Till Now)
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