# Anish Patel

> Anish Patel is a Series A investor at Yamaha Motor Ventures backing Artificial Intelligence. See 9 investments, check sizes, portfolio. Updated Aug 2026.

- Type: Angel Investor
- Fund: [Yamaha Motor Ventures](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/yamaha-motor-ventures-laboratory-silicon-valley)
- Location: San Francisco, United States
- Total investments: 9
- Last investment: Oct 2025
- Lead investor: 33%
- Last updated: Aug 2026
- LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/anish-patel-939b891

Anish Patel is a Series A investor at Yamaha Motor Ventures in San Francisco focused on Artificial Intelligence and Robotics. Anish Patel is the COO & Managing Director at Yamaha Motor Ventures & Laboratory Silicon Valley. Anish Patel attended Michigan State University.

## Investment focus

### Industry

| Industry | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Artificial Intelligence | 5 | 56% |
| Robotics | 4 | 44% |
| Industrial Automation | 3 | 33% |
| Manufacturing | 2 | 22% |
| SaaS | 1 | 11% |

23 industries tracked in total.

### Stage

| Stage | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Series A | 3 | 33% |
| Seed | 2 | 22% |
| Series B | 2 | 22% |
| Venture - Series Unknown | 1 | 11% |

### Country

| Country | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| United States | 6 | 67% |
| Canada | 1 | 11% |

## Investments

| Company | Description | Amount | Stage | Date | Website |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| Ridepanda | Ridepanda is an online e-ride shop that offers electric vehicles with maintenance support and theft protection. | $12.6M | Venture - Series Unknown | Oct 29, 2025 |  |
| Phoenix Tailings | Phoenix Tailings, is building technology to enable the recycling and re-mining of Bauxite Residue (“Red Mud”) - a hazardous by-product in the aluminum industry - to extract strategic materials which are critical to the Defense, Automotive, Electronics and Biotech industries. The company was founded with the mission to revolutionize the miningindustry by enabling new sources of strategic materials, sustainably and economically. | $33M | Series B | Apr 30, 2025 |  |
| Phoenix Tailings | Phoenix Tailings, is building technology to enable the recycling and re-mining of Bauxite Residue (“Red Mud”) - a hazardous by-product in the aluminum industry - to extract strategic materials which are critical to the Defense, Automotive, Electronics and Biotech industries. The company was founded with the mission to revolutionize the miningindustry by enabling new sources of strategic materials, sustainably and economically. | $43M | Series B | Dec 20, 2024 |  |
| Ridepanda | Ridepanda is an online e-ride shop that offers electric vehicles with maintenance support and theft protection. | $7.5M | Seed | Nov 09, 2023 |  |
| Veo Robotics | Veo Robotics is transforming manufacturing with products that incorporate advanced computer vision, 3D sensing, and AI. Their first product lets high-performance industrial robots work collaboratively with people to enable much more flexible, productive, and efficient manufacturing workcells. | $14M | Series B | Apr 25, 2023 |  |
| Machina Labs | Machina Labs is a mechanical & industrial engineering & manufacturing firm that unlocks manufacturing through AI & machine learning. |  | Series A | Feb 15, 2023 |  |
| RIOS | RIOS, founded in 2018, is a technology company helping global customers automate their factories, warehouses, and supply chain operations by deploying a new class of dexterous AI-powered robots. RIOS robots handle hard-to-automate tasks, typically requiring human-level dexterity, in unstructured environments. RIOS is headquartered in Palo Alto, CAand has a pilot facility in San Carlos, CA. More information is available at www.rios.ai. | $28M | Series A | Feb 22, 2022 |  |
| Canvass AI | Canvass AI is an AI-based platform designed for the Industrial Operations. Our software puts AI in the hands of industrial operators, empowering them to improve quality, optimize processes and reduce energy consumption in their day-to-day operations. | $6.5M | Series A | Oct 28, 2020 |  |
| InOrbit | InOrbit is bridging the autonomy gap through a cloud robot management platform that enables robotics companies and operators to develop, deploy and orchestrate autonomous robots at global scale. The commercial service robot market, is growing over 40% YoY and is expected to hit $50B by 2024.InOrbit is pioneering the new field of RobOps, or DevOpsfor Robotics -- think of it as Splunk/Datadog for Robots. InOrbit’s multi-cloud platform provides secure, real-time analytics and data collection, robot performance monitoring (RPM), incident management and remote interventions. The company’s proprietary technology, including adaptive diagnostics and predictive analytics, is able to derive unique value by leveraging industry-wide data that provides InOrbit’s customer’s insight they are unable to obtain on their own. InOrbit has access to over 300 Petabytes of data per month and can learn faster than any robotics company by operating across different robots and industry verticals. Customers and partners include Google, Qualcomm, Sprint, Brain Corp., Bossa Nova Robotics and over a dozen other robot manufacturers that range from early stage to scaling. InOrbit’s founding team includes Mario Munich, a pioneer in robotics and former SVP Technology at iRobot (through acquisition of Evolution Robotics, where he was CTO); Julian Cerruti, an expert in complex systems, robotics and augmented reality (experience with Willow Garage, creator of de facto standard Robot Operating System, Savioke, Clearpath, Google, IBM); and Florian Pestoni, with experience leading product teams reaching hundreds of millions of users at large-scale cloud companies (formerly at Microsoft, Adobe, Atlassian, Facebook, Ooyala). Together the team holds well over 50 patents in security, autonomous navigation, image processing, distributed systems and collaboration, with diverse experience including starting companies, scaling teams, shipping products at scale and achieving venture-backed exit through acquisition. | $2.7M | Seed | Jul 09, 2020 |  |

9 of 9 investments shown.

## Co-investors
- [ANIMO Ventures](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/animo-ventures) — VC Fund, 2 deals together
- [Blackhorn Ventures](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/blackhorn-ventures) — VC Fund, 2 deals together
- [Builders Vision](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/builders-vision) — VC Fund, 2 deals together
- [Envisioning Partners](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/envisioning-partners) — VC Fund, 2 deals together
- [Escape Velocity](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/escape-velocity-1a89) — VC Fund, 2 deals together
- [MPower Partners](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/mpower-partners) — VC Fund, 2 deals together

## About Yamaha Motor Ventures

VC Fund · Palo Alto, United States

Yamaha Motor Ventures & Laboratory Silicon Valley is a venture capital firm that invests in the robotics, food, and AgTech industry. The firm invests in early-stage companies that have product and customer validation.Yamaha Motor Ventures & Laboratory Silicon Valley (YMVSV) was founded in 2015 by Hiro Saijou and is headquartered in PaloAlto, California, United States.

5 contacts available at Yamaha Motor Ventures.

| Name | Title | Profile |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Anish Patel | Partner | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/anish-patel-2 |
| Keiichi Onishi | CEO & MANAGING DIRECTOR | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/kei-onishi-e048 |
| Nolan Paul | Partner | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/nolan-paul |
| Rebecca Woodcock | Principal | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/rebecca-woodcock |
| Sean Simpson | Principal | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/sean-simpson |

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## FAQ

### What does Anish Patel invest in?

Anish Patel invests primarily in Artificial Intelligence, Robotics and Industrial Automation startups, most often at Series A and Seed stage. Most of the 9 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 Anish Patel last invest?

The most recent investment recorded for Anish Patel closed in Oct 2025. Shizune tracks 9 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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