Q Motiwala
Managing Partner
Areas of Focus
Frontier Tech
Enterprise/Cloud

Q has been learning hard lessons investing in the Deeptech, Transportation, Cloud and E-commerce sectors. He strives to be a better listener and sounding board at his portfolio companies and serves on the Boards of Nauto (AI Dashcam/Transportation), ICEYE (Change detection via Micro-satellite SAR constellation), Movandi (5G RF systems), Diligent Robotics (Robots for Hospitals), Macrometa (Edge Storage and Computing), Squadcast (Modern Incident Response/ SRE), Quark.AI (Autonomous Support), Naya (collaboration for physical product design), Airhouse (fulfillment for D2C companies), and led the firm's investments in Zūm (Digitization and Electrification of School Transportation) and Prime Roots (plant-based alternative protein). 

In the early 90's, he spent a decade+ at Qualcomm in semiconductor Engineering and Product leadership roles, helping deploy 3G in S. Korea, Japan, and the US. He also helped embed 3G in notebooks and automobiles in the pre IoT era. 

He was part of two mobile startups. Q holds 5 patents in the wireless & semiconductor sectors. He spent way too much time in schools, getting an MBA from UCLA, MSEE from Virginia Tech and B.Eng from The University of Mumbai.

Areas of Focus
Frontier Tech
Enterprise/Cloud
Active Investments
Iceye
Movandi
Nauto
Zūm
Diligent Robotics
Macrometa
Squadcast
Quark.ai
Airhouse
Naya
AgVend
Prime Roots
Exited Investments
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