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Sujal Patel

Nautilus CEO needs investor patience in pursuit of ‘incredibly ambitious’ biotech product

Nautilus Biotechnology CEO Sujal Patel had to deliver tough news on a Thursday morning call with analysts. The company has laid off 25 workers, or about 16% of its workforce, and pushed… Read More

Startup tips from Isilon co-founder Sujal Patel on product-market fit, recruiting, hiring, scrappiness

Sujal Patel knows a thing or two about tech startups. The veteran Seattle entrepreneur co-founded Isilon Systems in 2001, helped take the storage company public five years later, maneuvered it… Read More

Biotech industry leaders share cautious optimism for 2023 amid downturn and layoffs

Sujal Patel has been here before. He weathered the 2009 recession as CEO of Isilon Systems, coming out the other end to sell his company the next year for $2.25… Read More

These biotech and life sciences CEOs made the leap from software startups — here’s how they did it

In the past several years the barriers between tech and the life sciences have begun to dissolve. AI and machine learning have gone from buzzwords to bedrock technologies for a… Read More

Nautilus Biotechnology shares surge 50% on news of Amazon investment

Shares of Nautilus Biotechnology rose by as much as 50% on Thursday morning after a report revealed that Amazon has taken an equity stake in the newly public Seattle-based company.… Read More

Sujal Patel-led Nautilus Biotechnology goes public as it tackles ambitious plan to analyze proteins

Nautilus Biotechnology is emerging as Seattle’s newest publicly traded company this week, taking advantage of the mania over SPACs to raise $345 million to fuel a new approach that could… Read More

Well-funded stealthy biotech startup Nautilus hires former Smartsheet, Isilon, GenapSys execs

Sujal Patel is getting the band back together at his secretive new biotech startup Nautilus Biotechnology. The company is beefing up its executive team with three new additions: Chris Blessington,… Read More

Jeff Bezos joins $76M round for secretive biotech startup led by Isilon co-founder, Stanford scientist

Parag Mallick spent more than 20 years studying the intersection of software engineering and life sciences to better understand predictive and personalized medicine. Then, one weekend, a light bulb went… Read More

Sujal Patel

Isilon co-founder Sujal Patel building mysterious biotech startup, backed by Andreessen Horowitz

Sujal Patel has seen a world-changing trend coming before. In 2001, in his mid-20s, he founded data storage technology company Isilon Systems in Seattle, correctly anticipating a massive increase in… Read More

Sujal Patel

Tech Moves: Isilon co-founder Sujal Patel joins Bay Area VC firm; Wrench adds Redfin exec to board

Sujal Patel, a longtime Seattle-area investor and co-founder of Isilon Systems, has joined Palo Alto, Calif.-based venture capital firm Defy Partners as part of its “sage” program that offers a… Read More

One of Seattle’s most successful startup founders leaves Uber to launch secretive robotics startup

Paul Mikesell, a University of Washington trained computer scientist who co-founded storage giant Isilon Systems in 2001, has left Uber and raised cash for a secretive robotics startup based in… Read More

Sujal Patel, Matt McIlwain

Top tech investors with a taste for restaurants bankroll Circadia, a fine dining space planned near Amazon

A new restaurant is coming to Seattle with a location near the heart of Amazon’s corporate campus and a concept aimed at attracting patrons looking for a fine dining experience that matches… Read More

F5 CEO John McAdam; Isilon co-founder Sujal Patel and Concur CEO Steve Singh join Madrona as strategic directors

Madrona Venture Group is adding some serious horsepower. The Seattle venture capital firm today is announcing the addition of three strategic directors, all of whom at one time held CEO… Read More

Isilon co-founder Sujal Patel joins the board of Elemental Technologies

Isilon co-founder Sujal Patel isn’t wasting much time taking on new roles. Patel, who announced late last month that he plans to step down from the storage company he created… Read More

Isilon co-founder Sujal Patel leaving EMC: Next gigs to include angel investing and diaper duty

When Isilon Systems sold to EMC for $2.25 billion in December 2010, Isilon co-founder Sujal Patel made a pledge to stick around for two years or get the storage company… Read More

Sujal Patel’s love letter to startups: 6 reasons why you should make the plunge

The University of Washington computer science department sends more than half of its grads to just four companies: Amazon, Facebook, Google and Microsoft. And while those tech giants pay well… Read More

Isilon co-founder Sujal Patel hops on board of ExtraHop

Sujal Patel has already built one powerhouse in the Pacific Northwest. Now, the Isilon Systems co-founder is lending his talents to an up-and-comer. Patel — who sold Isilon to EMC… Read More

Isilon adding 200 jobs as it settles into Pioneer Square HQ

Isilon Systems, getting comfortable in its new digs in Seattle’s Pioneer Square neighborhood, said today that it plans to add 200 more workers locally over the next 15 months. The… Read More

Sujal Patel’s call to action for the Seattle tech industry

There’s nothing quite like a comeback story. And there’s perhaps no better example of one in Seattle’s tech industry than that of Isilon Systems. Co-founder Sujal Patel retold that tale… Read More

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