With over 30 years of active engagement in the technology sector, we specialize in transforming complex ideas into market-leading solutions.
Your Value-added
Partners in Growth
Since 2009, Thynk Ventures has played a pivotal role in the tech industry, focusing on early-stage high technology companies.
Our founders have launched game-changing companies, continually pushing the envelope on innovation in AI, machine learning, and digital platforms.
Why Work with Us?
Proven Track Record
We lead investments in AI, machine learning, and digital sectors, actively guiding startups from strategy to execution, with experience on boards of companies earning $100,000 to over $100 million in sales
Operational Insights
At NeuVis, co-founder Maneesh raised $80 million from major investors like Goldman Sachs, culminating in an acquisition by IBM Rational. Our experience at firms like Booz & Co and Symantec has refined our expertise in product development and strategic partnerships.
Network & Innovation
Thynk Ventures nurtures growth through a dynamic ecosystem. We connect startups with leading tech innovators and industry experts, enhancing access to crucial resources and markets.
Our Core Mission is to Connect Two Distinct but Complimentary Market Segments
Startups
Ideate, create, launch and propagate leading disruptive technologies
Global 2000s
Identify tech, strategize innovation and source startup deals
Meet your team
Maneesh Sagar
Maneesh is a serial entrepreneur, VC, and teacher. He is focused on creating interdisciplinary innovation and creating meaningful and scalable solutions for the most pressing problems of our time. He is the Chairman and CEO of RS Metrics, a leading geospatial company focused on asset-level environmental, climate, and physical risk data.
Maneesh has a history of investing in, and scaling up disruptive startups. He was the Co-Founder of NeuVis (acq by IBM-Rational) where he raised over $80 million and grew the company to over 350 employees. At Huntington House, he created the first online sustainable development marketplace. At MondoWindow, he co-created the world’s first browser based moving map company, and at Sirl.io, he co-created the world’s first precise indoor location tracking platform.
He was Managing Director at Connecticut Innovations, where he invested in mobile, enterprise software, marketing automation, and IOT. Investments and advisory roles include Frevvo, Keisense (acq by Nuance), NetKey (acq by NCR), ROI (acq by Revionics), Premise (acq by Eclipsys), SilverSky (acq by BAE Systems) ShopText (acq by Anomaly), HigherOne (NYSE) and SmartEquip.
He has an MBA from Columbia Business School, and a BA in Economics (Magna Cum Laude) from Ohio Wesleyan University, where he was a Presidential Scholar. He is also an Innovation Fellow and a Founding Career Coach at Columbia Business School, teaching classes on innovation and VC.
Nilesh Maurya
With over 16 years of global experience in deal-making and capital raising, Nilesh Maurya is a seasoned investment professional who has played a catalytic role in scaling startups and growth-stage companies across major financial hubs, including Singapore, Mumbai, Dubai, London, and New York.
As director, capital markets specialist, and advisor to high-growth startups at Thynk Ventures for the past nine years, Nilesh has led numerous cross-border investments and strategic transactions. His domain expertise spans across technology, consumer packaged goods (CPG), SaaS, blockchain, food, beverage, and food services. He brings a sharp lens to business model refinement, go-to-market strategy formulation, and strategic capital raising, helping founders translate vision into execution with investor-ready narratives and sustainable growth pathways.
Nilesh holds a Master’s in Sustainable Finance from the Rotterdam School of Management, Amsterdam, and an Executive MBA from the Indian Institute of Management Ahmedabad, with a specialization in Mergers & Acquisitions, Deal Structuring, and Capital Markets.
He is also a mentor and advisor to emerging founders and family offices, with a particular interest in the intersection of innovation, sustainability, and capital efficiency.
Karl Mallia
Karl Mallia is a certified public accountant and a member of the Malta Institute of Accountants and the Malta Institute of Taxation. He is a seasoned financial consultant with a career spanning over 27 years, which includes various roles within one of the largest international auditing and consultancy firms. He has also held Chief Financial Officer and other finance positions in a number of entities including one of the main companies listed on the Malta Stock Exchange. Karl serves as a board member for a number of local and foreign companies
Albert Fernandez
Albert is a C-level Executive, Board Advisor / Director, and NED with deep global experience across technology, media, IT/telecoms, fin-tech, health-tech, and space. He has worked extensively across corporate, start-up/scale-up, enterprise, and the public sectors and is passionate about emerging technologies in the cloud, space, IoT, and AI.
As CEO of TechMIV Ltd and Operating Partner at Thynk Ventures, Albert is a Strategic and Operational Partner to innovative and high-growth technology startups, scaleups, and blue-chip companies. An overarching theme within Albert’s career has been his entrepreneurial and strategic hands-on leadership skills. Albert builds and energizes high-performance teams fostering commitment, collaboration and integrity, and is results-oriented and customer-driven with a relentless focus on worldwide sales, governance, operational excellence ,and superior customer experience.
Albert’s educational background includes an MSc in Electrical Engineering and Telecoms from ETSETB, UPC Barcelona (Spain), and Uni Kaiserslautern (Germany) and a Global Executive MBA from the London Business School (UK) and Columbia University (NY, USA). He is both a British and a Spanish national and lives in the UK with his wife and two children.
Shefali Sanghi
Shefali is the Founder of Neesa Consulting LLC, an advisory firm transforming emerging brands in beauty and skincare into category disruptors. With over two decades of experience working for Fortune 500 companies in India, she is leading the CPG and consumer innovation vertical of Thynk Ventures and assisting with identifying and accelerating ventures within the realm of AI, data, and consumer behavior.
Shefali’s previous work included building consumer-backed products in the world’s most dynamic and competitive markets and scaling those playbooks across Asia (India, Singapore, Vietnam). At HSBC, she converted consumer insight, macro signals (policy, payments, channels), and granular behaviors into hyper-personalized, multi-route go-to-markets that launched and grew retail-banking propositions. At Diageo, she paired data-driven market insights like consumer behavior, price sensitivity, and cultural nuance with commercial discipline to deliver alcohol beverage innovations. Her responsibilities involved architecting occasion-led portfolios, compliant routes-to-market, and profitable scale.
In parallel, Shefali is an angel investor and advisor in high-potential luxury beauty and skincare brands such as Love, Indus, and Mattr Cosmetics. Shefali brings an India-honed data, insight, and execution system to Thynk’s CPG×Tech vertical.
She holds an MBA from Symbiosis Institute of Management Studies, a Certificate in Search Marketing and Social Media from NYU School of Professional Studies, and Certificate in Marketing Strategy from Cornell University.
David Koppe
David Koppe is an experienced and versatile technology leader with over 30 years experience with organizations such as GE, BMC Software, Bladelogic and MongoDB. Currently, he is the Director of Business Value Engineering at Sysdig, a cloud-native security company.
David brings a focus on value selling and value realization to Thynk Ventures, helping understand customers’ business challenges and quantifying the value they can realize through the adoption of modern, disruptive technologies. This can help them drive business growth, competitive advantage and enhanced organizational performance and profitability.
David holds a B.S. in Mathematics and Computer Science from the University of Manchester.
Anurag Mathur
Anurag is an experienced tech executive with 25+ years of experience with organizations such as FIS Global, SAP, Microsoft, RDC (now Moody’s), and most recently at Google as Head of Strategic Partnerships for Google Cloud.
Anurag’s focus is on building revenue-generating ecosystems with market-leading FinTech, enterprise SaaS, and data companies, accelerating their adoption of cutting-edge AI and cloud technologies, and driving joint growth strategies. Over his career Anurag has had the opportunity to drive product strategy, scale channel-led growth, and deliver successful outcomes for investors. Anurag holds an MBA from Columbia University and a BS from King’s College
