About Cooper Veit

Ashiba Research currently pursues a mix of compute dealmaking, general neocloud jiu jitsu on short-term projects, New York rep / GTM partnerships, evals and smart contract tech, and academic work in kernel specification and compression standardization. This focus reflects the experience of Cooper Veit, an active dealmaker and problem solver in the compute space. If you are looking to get a deal done and want the right intros and a high ownership person on the case, you should email [email protected].

Born and raised in San Francisco, Cooper majored in computational biology at Stanford University. Computational biology research combines a rigorous mechanistic foundation with a keen focus on corralling and segmenting complexity and uncertainty. Avoiding tarpits and garbage requires extreme focus and diligence, and that's a skillset that has become increasingly valuable as brokers sling slop grenades and everything becomes machine-mediated.

After college, Cooper invested in technologies such as semiconductors and deep tech at Rhapsody Venture Partners in Boston. Cooper drove partnerships, joint ventures, and investment with inventors and large enterprises. The dynamics of secrecy, frequent delusion of counterparty, etc... helped shape a careful professional approach that helped drive later success in opaque and high-risk industries.

Following the rise of large language models, Cooper worked for years as an analysis provider and dealmaker in the patent industry. For better or worse, the patent system is where every neat trick and idea in the compute tech stack gets recorded, processed as text, standardized, litigated, etc... After a distinguished chapter as an associate at the top IP advisory working on deals from little $30k advisory projects to ~$100M secret IP agreements, Cooper pivoted into a founding GTM role at a patent AI company called Garden Intel. Cooper drove data acquisition and cleaning, full marketing and SDR pipeline, and MEDDICC AE deal management from qualification to validation to account ownership and product delivery. Garden Intel sold for $150M in early 2026, and Cooper left to build Ashiba in New York and San Francisco.

Key Ashiba values are absolute trust, total ownership, consummate professionalism, and a duty of care to qualified counterparties and partners. "Compute" is as complex as biology, and Ashiba brings a sharp careful approach rooted in lessons from years of hard work and muscle memory.