Akshay Patel

Akshay Patel is currently engaged in engineering at Typeface since September 2023 and serves as a scout at Pear VC from June 2024. Patel holds an analyst position at Pantera Capital, a cryptocurrency hedge fund with $4.3 billion in assets under management, since January 2023. Previous experience includes a KP Engineering Fellow role at Kleiner Perkins from April 2022 to August 2023 and a software engineer position at Bonfire from November 2021 to August 2023. Patel was also a venture fellow at Pear VC from October 2020 to May 2023. Internship experience consists of software engineering roles at Coinbase in 2022, Amazon in 2021, and Zighra in 2021, as well as a software engineer position at Savitude from February 2021 to May 2021. Akshay Patel is an alumnus of the UC Berkeley Management, Entrepreneurship, & Technology (M.E.T.) program.