Ameet Shah is a Partner at Golden Venture Partners. An entrepreneur with a successful exit to Zynga, he has focused his career on mobile products. He is an active angel investor, and a well-respected member of Toronto’s start-up community.. Ameet was previously the Managing Director of the Zynga Toronto location. Prior to that, he co-founded Five. Mobile, a premier mobile application development firm, which was sold to Zynga in 2008. He also was one of the first employees at Tira Wireless and became the Director of Systems Engineering and Strategic Accounts.. In Toronto, he is a mentor and advisor to the community. He has advised Social Deck (acquired by Google), Jet Cooper (acquired by Shopify), HackerYou, Hurrier, Elevate and PopTalk (acquired by Zynga). He’s also an angel investor in Care Guide, Joist, Relay (acquired by Kik) and Umano.. Prior to his time at Tira Wireless, he worked as a mobile software engineer at both IBM and Grey Interactive.. He has a dual BSc in Computer Science and Economics from the University of Toronto.
