Patrick Eggen

Patrick Eggen is a Co-Founder and serves as General Partner at Counterpart Ventures. Previously Patrick was the Managing Director of Qualcomm Ventures North America where he led all U.S. investments (~$500M AUM). He scaled the U.S. fund to 80+ investments across all stages and sectors. He also elevated the group to think with the mindset of a financial VC based on pure financial returns, domain expertise and activist investor role (leading rounds and taking board seats). He drove key thought leadership around all current core investment themes ranging from hardware, software, adjacent verticals and frontier tech. Based on last 13 years of direct venture investment experience, personally involved in 100+ transactions and 30+ exits. Patrick also launched Qualcomm Ventures' Bay Area practice and founded 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 Cruise Automation (acquired by GM), 99 (acquired by Didi) and Zoom. 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, Matterport, 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), Starmaker, Tempo.AI (acquired by CRM), ThinkNear (acquired by TNAV) and Viewdle (acquired by GOOG).