Partner at Courtside Ventures · Joined 2016
View Live Interactive Profile →Deepen Parikh is a Partner and co-founder of Courtside Ventures, which he helped launch in 2016 to back early stage companies across sports, media, betting, and wellness. He led the firm's investments in Beam, acquired by Microsoft, and in The Athletic, where he served on the board from the initial seed investment through the company's $550 million acquisition by The New York Times in 2022. Earlier he was a partner at Interplay Ventures, spent three years at UBS, and founded a CRM company serving professional and college sports teams. He serves as an independent director of 24 Hour Fitness and holds a BA from the University of Maryland, College Park.