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Q Motiwala

Managing Partner at DNX Ventures

San Mateo, California

Overview 

Q Motiwala is a Managing Partner at DNX Ventures, with a focus on investing in startups in sectors like Robotics, IoT, Cloud Infrastructure, AI, and Enterprise in the San Francisco Bay Area. With a strong background in venture capital and product management, Q has served on the Board of Directors of several successful companies like Diligent Robotics, Quark.ai, and Macrometa Corp, and has made impactful investments in companies such as ICEYE, Nauto, and Airhouse. Q's career highlights include leading investments in a diverse range of successful companies at various stages, from seed to Series C, and having a significant impact on the growth and development of startups through strategic guidance and leadership as a Director on multiple Boards of Directors.

Work Experience 

  • Managing Partner

    2008 - Current

DNX Ventures is an early stage VC firm focusing on B2B Startups that are shaping industries and transforming the way we live and work.

  • Director Board Of Directors

    2021

Naya’s platform brings the entire physical product design journey into one digital studio, from prompt to product.

Raised $5,745,000.00 from Ride Home Fund, DataPower Ventures, LoftyInc Capital and Fc Centripetal.

  • Director Board Of Directors

    2021

Quark is a Generative AI Support platform that interprets support issues to recommend resolutions automatically, skyrocketing productivity.

Raised $8,000,000.00 from DNX Ventures, Fusion Fund, True Blue Partners and TiE Angels.

  • Director Board Of Directors

    2020

Macrometa is a Global Data Network with a Global Data Mesh, Edge Compute, and built-in Data Protection for building real-time apps and APIs

Raised $27,900,000.00 from Shasta Ventures, Sixty Degree Capital and Akamai Technologies.

  • Director Board Of Directors

    2020

Diligent Robotics develops AI-powered robot assistants to collaborate with and adapt to humans in everyday environments.

Raised $80,324,532.00 from Northwestern Medicine Innovation, DNX Ventures, Canaan Partners, Next Coast Ventures, True Ventures and Northwestern Memorial HealthCare.

  • Director Board Of Directors

    2018

Movandi is a wireless systems company tackling the technical challenges of 5G millimeter wave networks.

Raised $56,700,000.00 from 5G Ventures, 4G Capital, Alumni Ventures, Cota Capital, Celesta Capital, DNX Ventures and Sierra Ventures.

  • Member Board Of Directors

    2017

  • Board Observer

    2016

Nauto is a transportation company that provides an AI-enabled fleet and driver safety tool to help detect and prevent distracted driving.

Raised $173,850,000.00 from Comcast NBCUniversal LIFT Labs.

  • Director Board Of Directors

    2021 - 2024

Squadcast is an end-to-end Incident management software helping SRE and DevOps teams to adopt IT incident management best practices.

Raised $9,300,000.00 from NetApp Excellerator.

  • Director Board Of Directors

    2022 - 2024

Airhouse is an end-to-end fulfillment solution for ecommerce companies.

Raised $16,500,000.00 from Duro Ventures, Ryan Hoover, Jeff Weinstein, Trajectory Capital Partners, Elizabeth Street Ventures, Trajectory Ventures, DNX Ventures, James Beshara, Gaingels and Austin Rief.

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