About

Gopal Patel is a Co-Founder and General Partner at Esya, a venture builder and start-up studio focused on building disruptive companies. With over two decades of experience as a technology specialist, Gopal has worked with some of the best companies in the industry, including Amazon, HSBC, and Norton Rose Fullbright. At Esya, Gopal partners with ambitious early-stage startups on a transparent, fair, and dynamic equity model to help them scale from 0 to 100, faster. He leverages Esya's startup studio, dynamic co-founder model, and EsyaBOOST to build, own, operate, scale, and transfer startups. Gopal's team is experienced in helping tech founders, and they use AI and machine learning to achieve digital transformation. Gopal has also co-founded WeUnite, a social interest platform leveraging best-of-breed technologies and services, and served as CTO at Auriens Group, where he was responsible for the group's technology strategy, vision, and investment. He identified Auriens Ventures' first flagship technology investment in the UK's fastest-growing Health Tech startup, Cera. Gopal holds a BSc Hons in Business & Computing from City, University of London, and has completed executive programs in Fintech from the Saïd Business School, University of Oxford, and Technology Entrepreneurship from Stanford University. He has expertise in Web3, AI, NLP, senior software engineering, ML, data science, SQL, AWS, Azure, Salesforce, and AngularJS. Gopal is a good learner, and his diverse interests and experience across industries have helped him become a serial tech entrepreneur. He founded Esya in the middle of a raging pandemic, and his startup venture studio has successfully partnered with businesses and co-created with them. Gopal believes that if you're the smartest person in the room, you're in the wrong room.