Venture Portfolio
Business Ventures
Mukesh has co-founded numerous innovative ventures across six diverse industries. As an executive leader, he served as CEO, Managing Director and/or Principal. He and his teams have raised significant capital (equity and debt) from 100 investor partners collectively. These ventures transformed ideas into action with the mission of creating meaningful positive impact.
Advisory & Investment Porfolio
Mukesh serves as a key Advisory Board Member and/or Investor in a portfolio of innovative and creative ventures started by a talented group of founders and executives. These visionaries have a shared vision to create positive impact with meaning and purpose.
Non-Profit Organizations
Mukesh serves as a Charter Member, Faculty Advisor, Officer, and/or Distinguished Honorary Member of several statewide, national and global non-profit organizations and societies. Their mission is to foster positive impact on the world via leadership, service, business, and innovation.
Educational Ventures
Mukesh serves as a Founder, Director and/or Lead Faculty for innovative labs, centers, incubators, accelerators, and experiential programs with the charter to impact the next generation of students, founders and executives.
Innovation Lab (Social Ventures)
Social Innovation for Impact – Founded at the Honors College, we leverage the United Nation’s Sustainable Development Goals and help teams launch innovation ventures for local, national and global impact. Our teams have filed patents, created pilot programs with leading organizations, won international case competitions, met former Presidents of the U.S. and CEOs of major companies, and successfully raised capital.
Mukesh Patel
Founding Director
Collab for Tech Entrepreneurship & Commercailization (CTEC)
Grad students in STEM and Business School (MS, MBAs & PhDs) collaborate to master skills in entrepreneurship and tech commercialization. Students work with executive mentors to translate cutting-edge technologies and scientific discoveries into business opportunities and startup ventures.
Mukesh Patel
Director & Asst. Prof.
Entrepreneurship Law Clinic
A prominent law school clinic that provides complimentary, valuable legal services to innovative and tech startups. We support the startup ecosystem and founders of innovative ventures. Legal services include legal research, guidance, and transactional documents for startups: company formation, securities, capital raising, employment, technology, and intellectual property matters.
Mukesh Patel
Director of Development & Adjunct Law Professor
Road to Silicon V/Alley Program (RSVP)
An interdisciplinary, experiential program that supports students to advance in technology, innovation, entrepreneurship, intrapreneurship (corporate), and design. We teach business acumen, technology acumen, and critical success (soft) and leadership skills. Focus is on emerging technologies including AI, ML, DL, IoTs, 5G, Cloud Computing, Coding, Design, UI/UX, and Blockchain. Applications in all industries including fin-tech, media-tech, SAAS, data science, and product development.
Mukesh Patel
Founding Director
Black & LatinX Tech Initiative
A tech accelerator for minority and women founders headquartered at the Center for Urban Entrepreneurship & Economic Development (CUEED) – We train, mentor, and invest in cohorts of founders of innovative startup ventures at a national level. We also help them expand their networks with prospective advisors, industry experts, and investors, including a collaboration with our own affiliated Angel Investment Fund.
Mukesh Patel
Lead Instructor & Coach
Executive Education & Executive MBA
As Lead Faculty for Executive Education, we collaborate with world class faculty and industry experts to train executives and managers of leading corporations in business and leadership. Programs include Innovation for Corporate Enterprises and Driving Innovation in Business Solutions. The Executive MBA Program includes Opportunity Identification & Assessment, Digital Transformation, Disruptive Innovation, and Design-Thinking.
Mukesh Patel
Faculty
