Prior to launching Counterpart Ventures, Patrick was the Managing Director of Qualcomm Ventures North America and led all U.S. investments (nearly $500M AUM). He previously launched Qualcomm Ventures’ Bay Area practice and started the Global Early Stage Fund, focused on Seed and Series A opportunities. This fund has scaled to $100M+ AUM and 70+ investments, which include big wins such as Zoom (ZM), Matterport (MTTR), Noom, Cruise Automation (acquired by GM) and 99 (acquired by Didi). The Early Stage practice was the first of its kind in any Corporate Venture Capital organization.While he worked closely with nearly all the early stage portfolio companies around the world, he actively sourced or serves as a Board Member/Observer for investments in Clarifai, Cloudflare, OpenSignal, Particle, Plivo, Sense360, Sparta Science, Swift Nav and Zoom. Additionally he worked very closely and co-sponsored Ring (acquired by AMZN) and Waze (acquired by GOOG). Prior investments (exits) include Aicent, Avaak (acquired by NTGR), Divide (acquired by GOOG), Clicker (acquired by CBS), Magisto (acquired by IAC), Starmaker (acquired by Kunlun), Tempo.AI (acquired by CRM), ThinkNear (acquired by TNAV) and Viewdle (acquired by GOOG). He also served as the key investment lead on QPrize and Qualcomm Robotics Accelerator, an extension of the Early Stage Fund. He is the first Qualcomm Venture alum to establish an independent venture fund at scale.
