# Sujal Patel

> Sujal Patel is a seed investor in Seattle backing Software and SaaS. See 11 investments, round sizes, portfolio and contact details. Updated Aug 2026.

- Type: Angel Investor
- Location: Seattle, United States
- Total investments: 11
- Last investment: Apr 2020
- Lead investor: 0%
- Last updated: Aug 2026
- LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/patelsujal/

Sujal Patel is a seed investor in Seattle focused on Software and SaaS. Sujal Patel, who founded Isilon in 2001 and served as its chief technology officer, returned to the company as CEO in October 2007. This followed the resignation of Chief Executive Steve Goldman and Chief Financial Officer Stu Fuhlendorf.

## Contacts

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## Investment focus

### Industry

| Industry | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Software | 7 | 64% |
| SaaS | 2 | 18% |
| Big Data | 2 | 18% |
| Analytics | 2 | 18% |
| Cloud Computing | 2 | 18% |

32 industries tracked in total.

### Stage

| Stage | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Seed | 5 | 45% |
| Series A | 2 | 18% |
| Angel | 1 | 9% |
| Series B | 1 | 9% |
| Series C | 1 | 9% |

## Investments

| Company | Description | Round size | Stage | Date | Website |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| Alluxio | Alluxio, Inc. (formerly Tachyon Nexus) team consists of the creators and top committers of Alluxio (formerly Tachyon), an open source project from UC Berkeley AMPLab. For the past three years, we have been working to revolutionize the way data is stored, accessed, and managed by focusing on a memory-centric architecture. We believe this newapproach is key to delivering the next generation storage. | $7M | Series B | Apr 16, 2020 | https://www.alluxio.io |
| Amperity | Amperity’s mission is to help people use data to serve the customer. They are revolutionizing the way companies connect, identify, and understand their customers by leveraging artificial intelligence to deliver a truly comprehensive and actionable Customer 360. This view improves marketing performance, fuels accurate customer insights, and enablesworld-class customer experiences. With Amperity, technical teams are freed from endless integration and data management, and business teams have direct access to the comprehensive data they need to build long-term customer loyalty and drive growth. Amperity serves many of the world’s most loved brands, including Alaska Airlines, Starbucks, The Gap Inc, Moët Hennessy USA, Wynn Resorts, Kendra Scott, Lucky Brand, Planet Fitness, Seattle Sounders, Stanley, and many more. | $9M | Series A | Feb 05, 2016 | https://amperity.com |
| Envelop VR | Envelop VR is creating productivity and enterprise software that enables businesses and consumers to create, work, and play in an immersive, 3D environment. Envelop VR is the brainchild of serial entrepreneur Bob Berry, who studied virtual reality in Japan in the late 90s, and chief technology officer Jon Mavor, who has spent the last two decadesin the video game business developing advanced rendering technologies.It was founded in 2014 and is based in Bellevue, Washington. | $2M | Seed | Jun 08, 2015 | http://www.envelopvr.com |
| ExtraHop Networks | ExtraHop is on a mission to stop advanced threats with security that can’t be undermined, outsmarted, or compromised. Our dynamic cyber defense platform, Reveal(x) 360, helps organizations detect and respond to advanced threats––before they compromise your business. We apply cloud-scale AI to petabytes of traffic per day, performing line-ratedecryption and behavioral analysis across all infrastructure, workloads, and data-in-flight. With complete visibility from ExtraHop, organizations can detect malicious behavior, hunt advanced threats, and forensically investigate incidents with confidence. When you don’t have to choose between protecting your business and moving it forward, that’s security uncompromised. | $41M | Series C | May 29, 2014 | http://www.extrahop.com |
| Igneous | Igneous delivers the only Unstructured Data Management (UDM) as-a-Service solution, giving data-centric enterprises visibility, protection, and data mobility at scale. Igneous’ API-enabled, cloud-native solution combines all UDM functions so that organizations can tap the value of their unstructured data, while reducing risk and optimizing ITresource utilization. Kiran Bhageshpur and Byron Rakitzis founded the company in October 2013, with its headquarters in Seattle in Washington. | $23.6M | Series A | May 06, 2014 | https://www.rubrik.com |
| BuildersCloud | BuildersCloud makes sharing, accessing and working with construction documents incredibly easy.Top construction industry leaders have endorsed BuildersCloud for:•document and communication exchange between offices/field•patent-pending technology to process data in cloud (creates zero-latency in exchange of information)•instant SMS,Web, and Email sharing of critical updates (mobile, PC, tablets)•PDF, image and photo collaboration tools•remote productivity controls•customer-friendly and intuitive design | $1.1M | Seed | Aug 08, 2013 | http://www.builderscloud.com |
| ExtraHop Networks | ExtraHop is on a mission to stop advanced threats with security that can’t be undermined, outsmarted, or compromised. Our dynamic cyber defense platform, Reveal(x) 360, helps organizations detect and respond to advanced threats––before they compromise your business. We apply cloud-scale AI to petabytes of traffic per day, performing line-ratedecryption and behavioral analysis across all infrastructure, workloads, and data-in-flight. With complete visibility from ExtraHop, organizations can detect malicious behavior, hunt advanced threats, and forensically investigate incidents with confidence. When you don’t have to choose between protecting your business and moving it forward, that’s security uncompromised. |  | Series C | Aug 01, 2013 | http://www.extrahop.com |
| Union Bay Networks | Union Bay Networks is focused on delivering solutions that will enable the next generation of networking for cloud computing and software-defined datacenters. Union Bay was founded by a team of industry veterans with roots from F5 Networks who have proven track records in application layer networking, virtualization, optimization, and securitysolutions. It is a stealth mode startup headquartered in Seattle, Washington, and backed by leading VCs: Madrona, Greylock, and Divergent. | $1.9M | Seed | Jul 15, 2013 | http://www.unionbaynetworks.com |
| SquareHub | SquareHub is a private family network that makes coordination and communication easy, instant, and fun. SquareHub addresses the need to coordinate multiple activities each day while keeping personal information private. Families can send group and one-to-one private messages and photos, coordinate activities, centrally share events and tasks,create personal notes, and send family reminders. SquareHub also has fun features such as a built-in photo editor, stickers and digital rewards for everyone engaged. Families with active teens, divorced and professional parents and military families will love the protection, efficiency and connection of SquareHub.Based in Seattle, Washington SquareHub was co-founded by a team of industry veterans and is supported by a group of world-class investors who share in SquareHub’s vision and goals. | $650K | Angel | Jan 01, 2013 | http://www.squarehub.com |
| ThisLife | ThisLife protects and organizes your photos and videos in the cloud. All your photos and videos are gathered (from your hard drive, your phone, your social services, your photo sites) and organized into your private archive in the cloud. ThisLife allows you to search your private archive to find just the photos or videos you are lookingfor from your collection of 40,000+ moments. | $2.8M | Seed | Jun 22, 2012 | http://www.ThisLife.com |

10 of 11 investments shown.

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- [Bezos Expeditions](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/bezos-expeditions) — VC Fund, 1 deal together
- [Divergent Ventures](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/divergent-ventures) — VC Fund, 1 deal together

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## FAQ

### What does Sujal Patel invest in?

Sujal Patel invests primarily in Software, SaaS and Big Data startups, most often at Seed and Series A stage. Most of the 11 investments tracked by Shizune back companies in United States. The Investment Focus section breaks down every industry, stage and country in the portfolio.

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### When did Sujal Patel last invest?

The most recent investment recorded for Sujal Patel closed in Apr 2020. Shizune tracks 11 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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