Palak Goel

Palak Goel is an investor at Madrona Ventures based in the Bay Area, where he evaluates prospective investments, identifies emerging technology trends, and supports existing portfolio companies. Before joining the venture capital firm in 2022, he spent nearly three years operating as a product manager at Microsoft. During his tenure at the software corporation, he worked specifically on the Microsoft Turing team to productize large language models and advance enterprise artificial intelligence capabilities. Goel originally graduated from Brown University in 2019, earning dual undergraduate degrees in computer science and economics. In his current venture capital role, he has directed funding toward several notable early-stage technology startups, including Typeface, OctoML, Statsig, Read AI, and Unstructured. His professional background and current investment thesis remain heavily concentrated on the rapid development of intelligent applications and next-generation infrastructure.