Atul Kapadia

Chief Executive Officer

📍 Stanford, California, United States🔄 Updated September 2026💼 12 investments📅 26 years investing🗓 Last invested Feb 2020
Angel investor🌍 United States
12
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3
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2
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1
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26y
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Board Member
Feb 2020
Cogni is built on a single mission to provide easy, transparent and accessible digital banking and lifestyle services on a single platform. As technology exponentially personalizes our lifestyle and finances - We are building a digital bank that provides easy access to web2 and web3 services across ( traditional finance, crypto, NFT’S, gaming and meta verse) We started in 2018 with a radical idea that anyone, anywhere should be able to access personalized financial and lifestyle services without having to download multiple applications on their phone. We have launched our digital banking and are building to provide personalized financial and exciting lifestyle services on Cogni. We’re always on the lookout for talented and fun individuals. Search our open roles or send a note [hello@GetCogni.com], tell us about you and why you’d want to join our team.
Board Member
Jan 2020
Pyxis uses AI to interview your customers and build digital twins — virtual personas that reflect your actual customers and are always available for feedback. These twins allow you to test ideas, validate concepts, and generate rich qualitative insights on demand, without needing to commission a new study every time. Traditional research makes it difficult to stay customer-centric. In-depth interviews are slow and expensive. Surveys are faster but often lack depth — and running studies continuously just isn’t practical. Pyxis breaks this tradeoff by giving you on-demand, affordable access to customer insight across marketing, insights and product teams.
Board Member
Nov 2019
TruU enables enterprises to eliminate passwords and badges to truly revolutionize the way workforces experience their workplace. We offer unique passwordless identity through adaptive MFA built on biometrics and behavioral identity that unifies access to physical and digital resources across the enterprise.
Board Member
Oct 2019
Our mission is to prevent workplace injuries. We accomplish this through a comprehensive and flexible IOT platform, supported by industry-leading data analysis. At our core, we are problem solvers. We are driven to find better ways to prevent injuries and make workplaces safer, leading to happy employees and stronger, more profitable companies.
Board Member
Feb 2019
Coddle believes real luxury is furniture that ushers in a new era of “Responsive Living – stylish innovations that sense you and the world around you, elevating body, mind and soul.
Board Member
Jun 2007
Board Member
Feb 2007
Tealeaf by Acoustic provides customer experience insights that enable teams to quickly identify, recreate, diagnose, prioritize, and fix customer experience friction in real-time. With SaaS or on-premises options, users – from marketing to product to engineering – can collaborate to resolve issues quickly and optimize the experience across apps, websites, and mobile. Tealeaf by Acoustic is part of the Acoustic product portfolio, which also includes DemandTec by Acoustic and the Acoustic Marketing Cloud.
Board Observer
Jun 2006
OncoMed Pharmaceuticals is a biotechnology company dedicated to improving cancer treatment by creating novel medicines that address the fundamental biologic pathways critical to tumor initiation, growth, metastases and recurrence. We are leveraging our understanding of cancer stem cell pathways and immuno-oncology targets to discover and develop novel therapeutics that could provide important alternatives for the treatment of cancer. OncoMed currently has seven internally discovered drug candidates in clinical development, as well as several active research programs undergoing preclinical evaluation. To support the advancement of our clinical-stage candidates and our continued discovery efforts, OncoMed has formed strategic alliances with Celgene Corporation, Bayer Pharma AG and GlaxoSmithKline. Since our founding in August 2004, we have raised more than $600 million, more than half of which has come from collaboration funding from our pharmaceutical partnerships.
Board Member
2006
When we pioneered remote access, we believed people should be able to work anywhere and in any way they need. Three decades later, that’s even more true than ever. It’s what drives us to create technology that transcends the constraints of time, place, infrastructure, networks, and devices. And it’s the reason thousands of organizations around the world trust us to keep their apps available, their data safe, and their people productive—wherever and whenever work happens. Citrix is now part of Cloud Software Group. To see career and people content, visit Cloud Software Groups LinkedIn page: https://www.linkedin.com/company/cloudsoftwaregroup/
Board Member and first investor
Jul 2005
Apigee is a full lifecycle API management platform that helps businesses accelerate with APIs. Apigee gives enterprises control over and visibility into the APIs that connect applications and data, across the enterprise and across clouds. Google acquired Apigee in November 2016.
Board Member
2005
Montalvo Systems was a Silicon Valley start-up reportedly working on an asymmetrical, x86 capable processor similar to the Cell microprocessor. The processor was to use high-performance cores for performance-intensive threads, and delegate minor tasks to the simpler cores to save silicon and power. Matt Perry, former Transmeta CEO, served as CEO and president of Montalvo; Peter Song, founder of failed x86 manufacturer MemoryLogix, served as chief architect. Another founding member, Kevin Lawton, of bochs (x86 emulation) and plex86 (x86 virtualization) fame, was the processor simulator architect. The official description of business from Montalvo's security filings was: A fabless semiconductor company developing ultra low-power system-on-chips for mobile devices. As of 24th April 2008, Sun Microsystems had acquired the company's assets for an undisclosed sum. Locations Headquarters were in Santa Clara, California, next door to the remnants of Transmeta, and nearby to Intel and Sun. It had offices in Boulder, Colorado and Bangalore, India. According to news reports, it had close to 300 employees. In March 2008 news broke that Montalvo was seeking funds to avoid shutdown[4]. According to a news article released on March 31, Montalvo had laid off two-thirds of its engineers. At the same time, rumors surfaced that Sun Microsystems was in talks to buy Montalvo[5]. About three weeks later, on the 24th April 2008, The Register confirmed the rumors to be true.[3]
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2020
Board Member
Feb 2020
Cogni is built on a single mission to provide easy, transparent and accessible digital banking and lifestyle services on a single platform. As technology exponentially personalizes our lifestyle and finances - We are building a digital bank that provides easy access to web2 and web3 services across ( traditional finance, crypto, NFT’S, gaming and meta verse) We started in 2018 with a radical idea that anyone, anywhere should be able to access personalized financial and lifestyle services without having to download multiple applications on their phone. We have launched our digital banking and are building to provide personalized financial and exciting lifestyle services on Cogni. We’re always on the lookout for talented and fun individuals. Search our open roles or send a note [hello@GetCogni.com], tell us about you and why you’d want to join our team.
Board Member
Jan 2020
Pyxis uses AI to interview your customers and build digital twins — virtual personas that reflect your actual customers and are always available for feedback. These twins allow you to test ideas, validate concepts, and generate rich qualitative insights on demand, without needing to commission a new study every time. Traditional research makes it difficult to stay customer-centric. In-depth interviews are slow and expensive. Surveys are faster but often lack depth — and running studies continuously just isn’t practical. Pyxis breaks this tradeoff by giving you on-demand, affordable access to customer insight across marketing, insights and product teams.
2019
Board Member
Nov 2019
TruU enables enterprises to eliminate passwords and badges to truly revolutionize the way workforces experience their workplace. We offer unique passwordless identity through adaptive MFA built on biometrics and behavioral identity that unifies access to physical and digital resources across the enterprise.
Board Member
Oct 2019
Our mission is to prevent workplace injuries. We accomplish this through a comprehensive and flexible IOT platform, supported by industry-leading data analysis. At our core, we are problem solvers. We are driven to find better ways to prevent injuries and make workplaces safer, leading to happy employees and stronger, more profitable companies.
Board Member
Feb 2019
Coddle believes real luxury is furniture that ushers in a new era of “Responsive Living – stylish innovations that sense you and the world around you, elevating body, mind and soul.
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