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Patrick Ennis

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Board Member at Wipro Ventures · Venture Partner at Madrona Venture Labs · Venture Partner at Madrona Venture Group · Board director at Yoodli AI

North Bend, Washington, United States

Kauffman Fellow · Class 4

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Patrick Ennis is a Venture Partner at Madrona Venture Group with over 30 years of experience across science, engineering, and venture capital. He previously spent more than a decade at Intellectual Ventures, where he led startup incubation and technology commercialization and served as founding CTO of the spinout Xinova, and earlier was a Managing Director at ARCH Venture Partners, with investments including Impinj and Innovalight. Ennis holds a PhD, MS, and MPhil in Physics from Yale, an MBA from Wharton, and a BS in Mathematics and Physics from the College of William and Mary, and currently sits on the boards of companies including Wipro Ltd, Yoodli, and Tangibly.

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Co-founders at Yoodli AI

VPVarun Puri
Varun PuriCEO, Co-founder
EJ
Esha J.Chief Customer Officer, Co-founder
EJEsha Joshi
Esha JoshiExecutive Officer, Director

Experience

  1. Madrona Venture GroupVenture Partnercurrent2019 — presentGreater Seattle Area
  2. WiproBoard Membercurrent2016 — presentBangalore
  3. NUS EnterpriseStrategic Advisorcurrent2025 — presentSingapore
  4. Helsinki Innovation Services (HIS)Member Commercialization Advisory Board2017 — 2022Helsinki, Uusimaa, Finland
  5. XinovaCTO and co-founder2016 — 2019Seattle
  6. Intellectual VenturesHead of incubation and startup creation2008 — 2019
  7. Evolv TechnologyFounding Board Member2013 — 2018Greater Boston
  8. ARCH Venture PartnersManaging Director1998 — 2008
  9. ARCH Venture PartnersKauffman Fellow1998 — 2000
  10. Bell Labs Lucent TechnologiesProduct Manager1996 — 1998
  11. AT&TMarketing Manager / Product Manager1995 — 1997
  12. Bell LabsMember of Technical Staff / Systems Engineer1992 — 1995
  13. Department of Energy / Wright Nuclear Structure LaboratoryScientist1986 — 1992
  14. Yale UniversityTeacher1985 — 1991

Skills & more

Start-ups99Entrepreneurship99Venture Capital99Commercialization31Mergers9Portfolio Management5Due Diligence10Financial Modeling14Product Development24Competitive Analysis20Mergers & Acquisitions26Corporate Development9
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Who is Patrick Ennis?
Patrick Ennis is a Venture Partner at Madrona Venture Group with over 30 years of experience across science, engineering, and venture capital. He previously spent more than a decade at Intellectual Ventures, where he led startup incubation and technology commercialization and served as founding CTO of the spinout Xinova, and earlier was a Managing Director at ARCH Venture Partners, with investments including Impinj and Innovalight. Ennis holds a PhD, MS, and MPhil in Physics from Yale, an MBA from Wharton, and a BS in Mathematics and Physics from the College of William and Mary, and currently sits on the boards of companies including Wipro Ltd, Yoodli, and Tangibly.
Where does Patrick Ennis work?
Patrick Ennis is Board Member at Wipro Ventures and Board director at Yoodli AI.
What boards does Patrick Ennis sit on?
Patrick Ennis holds tracked board seats at Yoodli AI.
What companies has Patrick Ennis invested in?
Investments tracked here include Lassen Peak, Tangibly, Yoodli AI.
Where did Patrick Ennis go to school?
Patrick Ennis studied at Yale University (Ph.D., Nuclear Physics); The Wharton School (MBA, Finance); William & Mary (B.S., Math).

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