At Google, Manish was fortunate to lead and collaborate with teams that designed, developed, and scaled products with global impact including Google Ads, TV, and Maps. In addition, he built a few products that were brilliant failures. He also worked closely with the co-founders on special projects including running Google’s corporate strategy and goal setting process: OKRs. As the company scaled from private to public, Manish held several other strategic roles and spent significant time overseas as Google established its global presence. After Google, Manish joined Highland Capital and helped expand the firm’s offices in California. Manish is certainly the “accidental” venture capitalist but grew to love the craft. He focuses on early stage investing. Manish was able to partner with a number of exceptional entrepreneurs over the years who have scaled their businesses to public companies and multi billion dollar acquisitions.

Manish's passion for building extends to many aspects of his life. He has taught in the Stanford School of Engineering for years as well as serving as a Fellow at the University of Toronto - CDL. He was also recognized as a Distinguished Fellow by IDEO CoLab. And when he can, he loves to find excuses to go to his local machine shop.

Manish has spent his career at the edge of innovation as an operator, inventor, and as a venture capitalist. He deeply believes in the idea that the best products, those that truly impact us, shift from being novel technologies to becoming commonplace, disappearing into our daily lives.

Growing up in a family business in the Boston area, Freddie gained an appreciation for entrepreneurship at an early age.  He earned his undergraduate degree and MBA from Harvard, where he spends time as a mentor and advisor throughout the start-up ecosystem.

Freddie's first job brought him to Wall Street, working on the fixed income trading floor at Lehman Brothers and Barclays Capital before returning to business school.  He began his venture investing career in 2011 upon founding Suffolk Equity Partners, a small private investment firm.  Through Suffolk Freddie was fortunate to work with incredible companies such as Warby Parker, FIGS Scrubs, Drizly, Omaze, Grab, RapidSOS, and Parachute. Following five years at Suffolk, Freddie joined Highland Capital Partners where he learned the business of institutional venture, and how to be a true “first-call” partner to founders.  While at Highland he worked closely with the teams at Everly Health, Bitwise, and Vecna Robotics among others.

Freddie is also a Co-Founder of Mezcal Rosaluna, one of the fastest growing mezcal brands in the United States. He spent four years coaching football at his high school, Phillips Andover, and loves to work with teams.  An avid volunteer, Freddie enjoyed eight years as a Big Brother in Boston. He loves nothing more than helping great people succeed.

Kevin is a proud New Yorker and was raised in between New Rochelle, NY and New York City. He attended both Harvard College, and Harvard Business School. In between college and graduate school, Kevin spent time working at Nickelodeon and DraftKings. While at Nickelodeon he focused on developing campaigns and partnering with data scientists to create and execute strategies to drive younger audiences back to Nickelodeon’s linear and digitally owned platforms. He was tasked with developing creative solutions that resonate with Gen Z audiences. Kevin prides himself on being able to develop diverse approaches that drive value from consumers.
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Eager to get more exposure to technology and innovation, Kevin took a position at one of the leading sports, entertainment, and technology companies, DraftKings. Kevin worked across sales, product, and engineering teams to develop new game variations and enhancements to the traditional offerings that attracted new audiences and partners into the DraftKings ecosystem. While at DraftKings, he led negotiations with the world’s largest sports data providers resulting in multi-year licensing deals critical to powering DraftKings.
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While at Harvard Business School, Kevin got entrenched in the entrepreneurial community on campus. He was Co-President of the Black Investment Club, as well as on the committee that established the HBS Black Venture Competition. As an HBS Summer Fellow, he pursued his own entrepreneurial pursuits and co-founded a non-profit called Anti-Racism Fund. The Anti-Racism Fund provides capital and programming to marginalized communities across the US. Kevin believes that commitments to services strengthens leadership.

Nothing gets him more excited than collaborating with and supporting entrepreneurs to help create outcomes of true consequence.

Rollins was born and raised in The Biggest Little City in the World, Reno, NV. His first taste of the venture and tech ecosystem came during his time at Stanford. Rollins graduated with a B.S. in Management Science & Engineering as well as a M.A. in Communication with his thesis centering around Virtual Reality’s impact on one’s empathy as a part of Stanford’s Virtual Human Interaction Lab.
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While at Stanford, Rollins represented the Cardinal as a two sport athlete, was the chairman of the Pac 12’s Student Athlete Advisory Committee and represented Student Athlete’s Name, Image and Likeness rights nationally in Washington, DC at the Knight Commission on Intercollegiate Athletics.

After a short stint in the Canadian Football League, Rollins started his professional career at T3 Advisors, as a part of the west coast emerging technology and venture capital team. In just over three years, Rollins became a top performer which earned him the opportunity to expand T3’s presence in New York City. While leading the NYC team, Rollins became T3’s Head of Diversity, Equity and Inclusion (DEI) where he established an internal DEI Committee, developed novel recruiting and hiring processes as well as a systematic goal method that led to tangible social and economic impact for the firm.

Throughout his journey, Rollins aims to use his blessings to be a blessing in his community. Rollins is a proud board member of BUILD.org where he has the privilege to use the power of entrepreneurship to ignite the potential of under-estimated youth. Rollins is the 2021 Star Volunteer Award winner of the first ever CoreNet NYC DEI committee, where he helps lead the effort to increase DEI initiatives across the commercial real estate industry. Rollins is an active mentor for currently and formerly incarcerated individuals with Hustle 2.0 as well as black undergraduate students with The Takeoff Institute. Rollins is also a regular guest lecturer for Stanford’s Technology Entrepreneurship students and a mental health advocate with Lifeisworthit.org.

Tiantian grew up in Shanghai, China and came to the United States at age fifteen to study at a boarding school in Pennsylvania. She then attended Stanford University for both a bachelor’s degree in Computer Science and a coterminal master’s degree in Management Science and Engineering. Upon her graduation, Tiantian was a recipient of the Terman Engineering Award presented to the top students of each year’s senior class.

While at Stanford, Tiantian found her passion for technology and entrepreneurship. She was a research assistant in Stanford Technology Ventures Program and served on the executive board of Tau Beta Pi Honor Society where she secured funding from various institutions and industry partners to sponsor initiatives that enrich the engineering community on campus. Tiantian has also been volunteering for Stanford Women on Boards, committed to increase the representation, readiness, and influence of female leaders on corporate boards.

Outside of Stanford, Tiantian interned with several early and later stage startups in product management and research including Bytedance and Binance. In addition to her startup experiences, Tiantian actively scouted for a venture capital firm and made investments in Seed and Series A companies, along with an angel syndicate during her time at Stanford.

Chris began his career in venture capital at Atlas Venture which provided him with a broad range of experiences working with funds from the fundraising stage to final distributions, and everything in between. When the Atlas investment teams split, Chris migrated with the technology group that founded Accomplice VC. Prior to joining Nava in July of 2021, Chris was the Vice President of Finance at Highland Capital Partners where he began his relationship with Freddie and Manish. Chris values his diverse experiences working with world class venture capital firms in leading the finance and operations functions of Nava as the CFO and Head of Operations.

Chris lives in the suburbs of Boston, MA with his wife, daughter and Nova Scotia Duck Toller. He can be found on the weekends bouncing between sporting venues or enjoying any and all outdoor activities in the lakes region of New Hampshire.
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Chris earned a BS and MSA from the University of New Hampshire and is a Certified Public Accountant.

Prior to joining Nava, Laura started her career in venture capital at SoftBank Group International where she supported the General Counsel and the legal team. She has also worked with several local government organizations to build outreach programs with the community. At Nava, Laura helps support the team and manages the San Francisco office in Jackson Square.

Laura holds a BA in Public Administration with a minor in Political Science from California State University, Fullerton. She is a Bay Area local and in her free time she enjoys taking her french bulldog, Axel, out for walks on the beach and volunteering at her family's elderly home facilities.

Sarah joined Nava as the Executive Assistant to Manish Patel. She has an extensive background supporting some of Silicon Valley’s most successful founders and investors. Prior to Nava, she was the Executive Assistant to the Chief Technology Officer at Grammarly.

Sarah earned a BA in Business Administration from Washington State University and an MS in Organizational Leadership from Colorado State University.

In her free time, she enjoys seeing live music, hiking, reading, and spending time with her rescue dog, Bella.