Mital Makadia

Partner
Mital Makadia is a trusted advisor to startup founders, serving as outside general counsel to early-stage and growth-stage technology companies across a wide range of industries. She works closely with founders from the earliest stages of company formation through venture financings, strategic transactions, and exits. Her practice is grounded in helping entrepreneurs navigate complex legal and business decisions with clarity and confidence. Whether she’s structuring a reorganization, guiding a startup through its first institutional funding, or quarterbacking an M&A deal, Mital brings sharp judgment, practical insight, and a deep understanding of founder priorities. Clients value her calm, thoughtful approach and her ability to simplify high-stakes, fast-moving issues without losing sight of the bigger picture.

Experience

Prior to joining Grellas Shah, Mital practiced at Hogan & Hartson LLP in Washington, D.C., and at Kramer Levin Naftalis & Frankel LLP in New York, where she represented public and private companies in a variety of corporate transactions, including mergers and acquisitions, securities offerings, company formations, and governance matters.

Mital has served primarily as seller counsel for nearly 50 M&A transactions and is passionate about mitigating risk for both buyers and sellers and deal structuring.

Mital’s expertise has been featured in such media as Law360; 20 Minute Leaders; HR Daily Advisor; and more. She is a member of the Entrepreneur Leadership Network.

Mital earned her J.D. from Georgetown University Law Center, where she was a Global Law Scholar, a Law Fellow in U.S. Legal Discourse, and a member of the Georgetown Journal of International Law. She holds a B.A. in International Studies and Business Management from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.

Illustrative Professional Engagements

  • Represented the sellers in connection with the acquisition of ScribbleVet by Instinct Science. ScribbleVet is a leading AI-powered veterinary scribing platform serving thousands of veterinarians nationwide.  
  • Represented Edge Impulse, Inc. in connection with its acquisition by Qualcomm Technologies, Inc. Edge Impulse’s end-to-end edge AI platform serves over 170,000 developers worldwide, enabling the creation, deployment, and monitoring of AI models across a wide array of edge devices.  
  • Represented Saris AI in connection with its $28.8 million Series A financing, led by 8VC with participation from Audacious Ventures, Homebrew, Btech Consortium, and Service Ventures. Saris AI is a developer of agentic workflow automation solutions for banks and credit unions. The financing involved an exchangeable share structure coordinated with Canadian counsel.
  • Represented Thalamus, a public benefit corporation, in connection with a strategic acquisition.  The M&A transaction had a combination of cash and equity component.
  • Represented Mixel, a 27-year-old semiconductor IP provider with engineering teams in the U.S., Egypt, and Vietnam, in its acquisition by Silvaco Group, Inc. (Nasdaq: SVCO), for a combination of cash and stock. 
  • Represented OpenPipe in its acquisition by CoreWeave, Inc. (Nasdaq: CRWV), the AI Hyperscaler™ cloud platform.
  • Represented Kangaroo Biomedical, Inc., a San Francisco-based biotechnology company developing artificial-womb and reproductive health technology, in its Series Seed financing led by Draper Associates, with participation from 2b AHEAD Ventures, Immortal Dragons, Spice Capital, and VU Venture Partners. 
  • Represented HOSTED AI INC in its Series A financing led by Creandum, the European venture firm known for early investments in Spotify and Klarna, with additional participation from People Ventures, Repeat VC, and other existing investors.
  • Lead deal counsel for Emerge Tools in connection with its acquisition by Sentry, the widely used application-monitoring and debugging platform trusted by more than 130,000 organizations, including Disney+, GitHub, and Atlassian. 
 

Contact

550 California Street, Suite 1040,
San Francisco,
California 94104
Phone: (408) 255 – 6310
Fax: (408) 255 – 6350
Email: mm@grellas.com

Education

Georgetown University Law Center, J.D., 2004 (Global Law Scholar)

University of North Carolina, B.A., International Studies/Business Management, 2001 (James M. Johnston Scholarship, Dean’s List)