Ben Patterson

Elementum Ventures thesis

Ben Chelf, General Partner Ben was a co-founder of Coverity, a software quality and security company birthed from his research as a PhD student at Stanford. Coverity attracted investment from the likes of Benchmark Capital and Foundation Capital, employed hundreds of people, and, in 2014, was acquired by Synopsys. Ben served as both COO and CTO, defining product strategy and working closely with customers and the press and analyst communities. He's been named to ComputerWorld's Top 40 under 40 Innovative IT Professionals and is in the Stanford Inventor Hall of Fame. Ben has lived every part of

Sector and stage focus

• Seed: SMB Software, Developer Tools, Media/Content, Cloud Infrastructure, ClimateTech/CleanTech, BioTech, DeepTech, FinTech, SaaS, Enterprise
• general: Investors who invested in female founders, Investors who were founders, Investors who invested in diverse founders, San Francisco Bay Area
• Pre-seed: DeepTech, Developer Tools, Media/Content, SMB Software, Cloud Infrastructure, ClimateTech/CleanTech, BioTech, Enterprise, SaaS, FinTech

Recent investments by Ben Patterson

Ben Patterson has 1 named past investments in the public record. The most recent:

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