Amit Patel

Amit Patel serves as Managing Director at Owl Ventures. He is a Board Member at Thinkful. He serves as the Board Member at Tinkergarten and Kuali. Patel also served as Associate at Catamount Ventures. He is a Board Member at Lingo Live and a Board Observer for Panorama Education. He works closely with several of Catamount's portfolio companies, including PresenceLearning, Revolution Foods, and EdSurge. Amit has experience scaling several education startups and is deeply committed to building new organizations that will create sustainable and higher quality education solutions. Before joining Catamount, he founded and sold Personal Academic Trainers, an afterschool tutoring company, and created the quality assurance program and institutionalized sales training for Mathnasium Learning Centers, an after-school math learning center franchise with over 450 locations on four continents. Amit also served as the Director of Technology for Success Academy Charter Schools, a premiere charter school network in New York City with 22 schools. Amit is a graduate of the Education Pioneers class of 2013, and he earned a MBA/MA in Education from Stanford's Graduate School of Business and Graduate School of Education. He also received a BA in Mathematical Economic Analysis from Rice University and studied theatre/film at The New York Conservatory for Dramatic Arts and New York University.