Adzmel Adznan: Engineer to VC Partner, Malaysia Roots & Processing Grief

Adzmel is one of the Co-Founding Partners of Piva Capital, a venture capital firm based in San Francisco investing in deep tech and climate tech companies across North America and Europe. The firm is currently investing from its inaugural $250 million fund, backed by PETRONAS. As one of the founding Partners of Piva, Adzmel was instrumental in setting up the firm’s investment strategy. Piva focuses its investment activities in early stage breakthrough technology companies that are changing the way the world works and consumes energy; companies at the intersection of product-market fit and demand inflection for faster scale-up. Prior to his investing career, Adzmel spent more than a decade in the energy sector across various engineering, technical and business management roles. Before he left for San Francisco, Adzmel was instrumental in launching PETRONAS Ventures, the corporate venture arm of PETRONAS. Adzmel grew up in Malaysia, spent 7 years of his early childhood in boarding schools before going to read Mechanical Engineering at University of Strathclyde, Glasgow, Scotland where he graduated with a MEng. He also holds an MBA from Harvard Business School and is currently completing his Kauffman Fellowship under the mentorship of Robert E. Siegel. Show notes at: https://www.jeremyau.com/blog/adzmel-adznan You can find the community discussion for this episode at: https://club.jeremyau.com/c/podcasts/adzmel-adznan