Amit Patel
Managing Director @ Owl Ventures
San Francisco, United States
Amit Patel is a Managing Director at Owl Ventures. He has experience scaling several education startups and is deeply committed to building new organizations that will create sustainable and higher-quality education solutions. Amit has worked closely with several education companies, including PresenceLearning, Revolution Foods, TenMarks (acquiredby Amazon), Raise, MasteryConnect, LearnZillion, and EdSurge. Amit is a board observer for Panorama Education. Before joining Owl, he founded Personal Academic Trainers, an after-school tutoring company, and created the quality assurance program and institutionalized sales training for Mathnasium Learning Centers, an after-school math learning center franchise with over 450 locations on four continents. Amit also served as the Director of Technology for Success Academy Charter Schools, a premiere charter school network in New York City with 32 schools.Amit was an Education Pioneers Graduate School Fellow, and he earned an MBA/MA in Education from Stanford’s Graduate School of Business and Graduate School of Education. He also received a BA in Mathematical Economic Analysis from Rice University and studied theatre/film at The New York Conservatory for Dramatic Arts and New York University.
- Total investments:
- 21
- Last investment:
- Lead investor:
- 81%
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Industries Amit Patel invests in
Stages Amit Patel invests in
Countries Amit Patel invests in
Investment Focus
Industry
- Education 8 (38%)
- EdTech 7 (33%)
- Software 6 (29%)
- E-Learning 4 (19%)
- SaaS 3 (14%)
Stage
- Series B 6 (29%)
- Series A 4 (19%)
- Series C 4 (19%)
- Seed 3 (14%)
- Series D 2 (10%)
Country
- United States 12 (57%)
- India 3 (14%)
- Spain 1 (5%)
- Colombia 1 (5%)
Investments
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Complement 1
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Complement 1 is a health technology company dedicated to transforming cancer care through lifestyle medicine. Founded in 2024, Complement 1 has developed the first clinically validated, tech-enabled lifestyle program with daily 1:1 coaching for cancer patients, survivors, and those at high risk. By combining personalized coaching withevidence-based interventions in exercise, nutrition, and somatic practices, Complement 1 helps patients improve their projected quality of life. Backed by leading oncologists and scientific research, Complement 1’s platform integrates seamlessly with conventional oncology care to deliver better outcomes and empower patients in their healing journey. The company is headquartered in the U.S. with a mission to make effective, holistic cancer care accessible to all. For more information, visit complement1.com. | $16M / Seed / Apr 25, 2025 | |
BorderPlus
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BorderPlus, a talent mobility platform connecting blue-collar workers to global opportunities and providing full support in financing. | $7M / Pre-Seed / Feb 10, 2025 | |
Leap
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Leap is an ed-tech company that provides services such as guidance for university selection, IELTS preparation, financial planning, visa assistance, and SOP reviews for Indian students pursuing higher education abroad. The company provides expert counseling services and test preparation for exams like SAT and IELTS, helping students prepare fortheir educational journey. | $65M / Series E / Jan 29, 2025 | |
Authentica Solutions
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We are thrilled to share the exciting news about the launch of Authentica 2.0, featuring the return of our original founders from Microsoft after successfully reacquiring the brand from Google last year. Our dynamic team, boasting extensive experience in technology and education, is dedicated to addressing the interoperability challenges faced byglobal learning institutions across PK-12, Higher Education, and Workforce solutions. In light of the evolving educational landscape, intensified by the impact of COVID, the demand for secure data exchange, data pipeline management, and data cleansing has never been more critical. Education paradigms have shifted, necessitating not only access to cutting-edge integrated cloud technology but also to seasoned teams capable of addressing long-term challenges. Authentica stands ready to meet these challenges head-on, drawing upon our team's global experience in designing, building, and deploying technology for various education organizations. This marks the inception of our ambitious vision, the Education Intelligence Platform - Seed™. Focused on significant revenue growth through a strategic mix of indirect and direct go-to-market approaches, our primary commitment is to serve our B2B partners, including EdTech Software Providers, Strategic Alliances with Google and Microsoft, Resellers, and System Integrators. It is worth noting that Authentica is already operating profitably and is reinvesting for substantial growth. To propel our platform's growth, market penetration, and B2B expansion at an optimal pace, we are seeking partnerships with the right venture capital firms to raise $7 million. Seed™, our cloud-native platform, is poised to revolutionize education data solutions by addressing challenges such as data integration, analytics, and overall data quality. By focusing on Data Sharing, Security & Control, and Data Quality, Seed™ ensures that valuable data becomes a catalyst for machine learning and artificial intelligence in education. This innovative platform leverages cutting-edge technologies, including IPaaS, Master Data Management, and ML/AI, to empower stakeholders across the education sector. With Seed™, you gain access to a low-cost, scalable solution facilitating data acquisition, data quality and cleansing, cloud-managed storage, and AI-driven performance analytics. This, in turn, enables data-driven decision-making and propels student success by delivering the highest quality data to serve the potential impact of ML and AI technologies.We are the creators of AIM, Adoption Improvement Method. A methodology and practice driven approach to helping our clients reach the full potential, student achievement gains, in deploying their solutions. Our eleven factors create a systemic and dynamic approach to address core needs, issues, and providing immediate solutions to the most complex challenges with software deployment. By focusing on ADOPTION over just the implementation project, purpose changes and allows faster deployments, higher quality expectations, and a faster customer embrace of solutions. The greatest challenge presently with any implementation is data integration. It has been said that the K12 space has more data available with greater challenges to access that data than any other industry. And our focus is on more than profitability, it's about changes students lives.To address the tide of data that every enterprise solution needs to consume and provide to the many disparate systems, we created DataSense. Designed as an IPaaS technology but made ready to meet education institutions where they are today, we can deploy DataSense behind the firewall, ASP, SaaS, or in the Cloud. Designed to reduce implementation time frames by 50% or more over traditional ETL and MDM solutions, DataSense is a required asset to reach faster implementations with less stress on district IT and staying focused on your core application's purpose. | $6.2M / Seed / Jun 27, 2024 | |
Leal
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Leal is the leading SaaS platform for AI-driven customer engagement in Latin America, empowering retailers to acquire, retain, and maximize customer lifetime value through advanced automation and personalization.At its core, Leal offers a powerful AI Decisioning engine for loyalty, offers, and campaign management, ensuring that brands deliverhyper-personalized experiences at scale. The platform includes: • Customer Data Platform (CDP): A centralized hub that aggregates and analyzes customer behavior to power data-driven marketing strategies. • Campaign Management Suite: AI-driven orchestration of email, SMS, and WhatsApp campaigns, enabling retailers to automate engagement across channels. • Customer Experience Module: Tools for measuring and improving customer sentiment through NPS, satisfaction surveys, and crowdsourced mystery shopping. • Loyalty & Rewards Engine: A flexible framework supporting points, cashback, rebates, and gamification, designed to drive repeat purchases and brand advocacy. • API-First Infrastructure: Seamless integration into existing tech stacks, with 350+ integrations across major POS, ERP, eCommerce, and payment processors.Leal is trusted by global brands like Subway, Chevron, and Miniso, managing millions of transactions across LATAM. Backed by investors like Rakuten and top Silicon Valley firms, Leal is helping retailers turn data into revenue. | $5M / Series B / Jan 30, 2024 | |
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Leal
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Leal is the leading SaaS platform for AI-driven customer engagement in Latin America, empowering retailers to acquire, retain, and maximize customer lifetime value through advanced automation and personalization.At its core, Leal offers a powerful AI Decisioning engine for loyalty, offers, and campaign management, ensuring that brands deliverhyper-personalized experiences at scale. The platform includes: • Customer Data Platform (CDP): A centralized hub that aggregates and analyzes customer behavior to power data-driven marketing strategies. • Campaign Management Suite: AI-driven orchestration of email, SMS, and WhatsApp campaigns, enabling retailers to automate engagement across channels. • Customer Experience Module: Tools for measuring and improving customer sentiment through NPS, satisfaction surveys, and crowdsourced mystery shopping. • Loyalty & Rewards Engine: A flexible framework supporting points, cashback, rebates, and gamification, designed to drive repeat purchases and brand advocacy. • API-First Infrastructure: Seamless integration into existing tech stacks, with 350+ integrations across major POS, ERP, eCommerce, and payment processors.Leal is trusted by global brands like Subway, Chevron, and Miniso, managing millions of transactions across LATAM. Backed by investors like Rakuten and top Silicon Valley firms, Leal is helping retailers turn data into revenue. | Series A / Jan 30, 2024 | |
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Leap
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Leap is an ed-tech company that provides services such as guidance for university selection, IELTS preparation, financial planning, visa assistance, and SOP reviews for Indian students pursuing higher education abroad. The company provides expert counseling services and test preparation for exams like SAT and IELTS, helping students prepare fortheir educational journey. | $75M / Series D / Jun 22, 2022 | |
Thunkable
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From MIT's App Inventor and YCombinator's W2016 batch, Thunkable allows anyone to build powerful native apps. With Thunkable, it's simple to design, and simple to code-- simply drag and drop to create fast, native, reliable apps. You don't need to download large development suites, command-line kits, or simulators. You canuse the many built-in app templates as they are, or make changes. Make your changes online and see them on your device instantly with the Thunkable mobile app. Upload your apps directly to the Play Store or send them to friends! | $30M / Series B / Feb 28, 2022 | |
Authoritive
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Authoritive is designed to share knowledge in a way that feels genuinely interactive and delivered with ease to the audience where they actually are. | $5M / Seed / Dec 09, 2021 | |
Genially
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Genially is the world-leader in interactive visual communication. Use Genially as your all-in-one online tool to create stunning presentations, interactive images, infographics, dossiers, quizzes, resumes, etc. and enrich them with interactivity and animation effects in seconds. You no longer need a team of designers and programmers to make animpact with striking, visual communication in a flash. Use interactive and animated effects to easily distribute information in layers that viewers can explore and discover. Leave outdated content creation software behind, and stun and engage your audience with Genially. The Wow Effect is just a few clicks away.Choose from over 1000 templates, or start from scratch. Join a community of millions of users worldwide that includes businesspeople, teachers, marketers, designers and companies like Hulu, Danone, Michelin and Heineken. The future of communication awaits you. | $20M / Series B / Sep 22, 2021 | |
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Co-Investors
About Owl Ventures
Owl Ventures is a venture capital fund that invests in education technology companies.The firm has invested in 24 companies across the education spectrum encompassing early childhood, K-12, higher education, and career mobility/professional learning. Owl leverages its deep domain expertise and takes an active hands-on approach to helpentrepreneurs scale their businesses into transformative category-leading companies.The firm was founded in 2014 and has over $600 million in assets under management.
Owl Ventures Contacts
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Amit Patel
Managing Director
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Jenny Wang
Principal
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Judy Park
Principal
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Tory Patterson
Co-Founder and Managing Director
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Hailey Carter
Senior Associate
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What does Amit Patel invest in?
Amit Patel invests primarily in Education, EdTech and Software startups, most often at Series B and Series A stage. Most of the 21 investments tracked by Shizune back companies in United States. The Investment Focus section breaks down every industry, stage and country in the portfolio.
When did Amit Patel last invest?
The most recent investment recorded for Amit Patel closed in Apr 2025. Shizune tracks 21 investments in total for this profile, including round sizes, stages and portfolio companies, all sourced from confirmed public funding rounds and refreshed monthly.
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