Ketan Sampat

Ketan Sampat is an Executive Partner at Elevate Capital. Ketan has also served as the Founding President & Charter Member of TiE, GM of the Streamed Computing Initiative at Intel, and President of Intel India.

Sampat first started their career as the Founder & CTO of CafeGive, an Internet based company that created innovative methods of fundraising and simple yet powerful SaaS tools and Mobile apps for businesses for "cause marketing" through social media. As co-founder, they were deeply involved in product management, architecting and building the technology platform, business development and managing key customer relationships, fund-raising and investor relationships.

Sampat then went on to work for Intel, first as the GM of the Streamed Computing Initiative and then as the President of Intel India. During their time at Intel, Sampat was responsible for managing key customer relationships and growing the business in India.

After their time at Intel, Sampat joined Elevate Capital as an Executive Partner. In this role, they are responsible for investing in early stage companies and supporting them through their growth journey.

Ketan Sampat earned their MS in Computer Science from Syracuse University and their B. Tech in Electrical Engg. from Indian Institute of Technology, Bombay.