About
Patrick Scaglia is a venture capital investor at Blue Bear Ventures who transitioned from senior R&D and engineering leadership roles at Hewlett-Packard, bringing a practitioner's perspective to technology development rather than a pure finance background. He co-founded CITRIS Foundry at UC Berkeley, a university accelerator for deep-technology spin-outs, and serves as chairman of Y Combinator Research's Human Advancement Research Community, positioning him as an early institutional believer in deep-tech founders emerging from research institutions. Patrick Scaglia is a venture capital investor at Blue Bear Ventures who transitioned from senior R&D and engineering leadership roles at Hewlett-Packard, bringing a practitioner's perspective to technology development rather than a pure finance background. He co-founded CITRIS Foundry at UC Berkeley, a university accelerator for deep-technology spin-outs, and serves as chairman of Y Combinator Research's Human Advancement Research Community, positioning him as an early institutional believer in deep-tech founders emerging from research institutions.
