Manish Sinha

Director & Head of Venture Building

2022

Leading the Venture Building team to bring deep tech ideas across Schools of Engineering, Science and Medicine, from Lab to Market. Finding pearls that can enable a meaningful difference in the society driven by tech. 3 prong role of (i) providing capital backing (grants and equity linked) (ii) building ventures (market opportunity assessment, business model design, customer discovery, deal negotiations etc.) and (iii) ecosystem plug-in. Special focus on Climate Tech, Advance Materials & Manufacturing and Health Tech.

Advisor & Investment Committee Member

2024

Theia Ventures invests in early stage climate-tech companies in India with seed stage capital, to address the climate crisis and achieve net zero carbon emissions.

Associate Partner | Leap by McKinsey

2020 - 2022

Brought together experience across strategy, operations, investing, technology and entrepreneurship to help create new ventures and digital transformations for corporate clients

Founder & CEO

2015 - 2020

Skrilo ... for a better life. We are a unique consumer tech company that brings to its users gamified engagement, offers and informative vernacular content for a better life. Weaved into the consumer play is an innovative marketing model, wherein Skrilo for the very first time, has created a hybrid between genuine engagement (brand objective) and reward based marketing (consumer mindset) in one go. The platform offers the full gamut of deep voluntary engagement, content marketing, connected commerce, performance marketing, and affiliate marketing. Innovated at various levels in the venture: - Created the world’s first hybrid format between incentivized marketing & genuine consumer engagement. - Pioneered instant transfer of claimed cash rewards into wallets; and bank accounts using 24x7 IMPS system. - Built a B2B equivalent of our novel gamified program, to help boost monetization for fintech players/ wallets.

Portfolio Manager

2013 - 2015

Fundamental long-short equity mandate across Asia Pac. Investing with a systematic approach combining fundamental stock drivers, macro-economic and policy developments, and technical strategies.

Director

2011 - 2012

Portfolio Manager for Asia Pac Equities. Developed proprietary systematic and factor models to identify attractive long-short (absolute or relative) opportunities at country, industry and stock level.

Limited Partner

2011 - 2011

Founding Partner

2006 - 2011

Co-founded Amoeba Capital Partners, with a primary mandate to invest in a long-short strategy in Asia ex-Japan, with a peak AUM of 750+ mil USD. Responsible for Portfolio Management, Risk Management, and Business Development. Delivered sound risk adjusted returns through the cycle despite extreme market gyrations.

Senior Investment Analyst

2005 - 2006

Specialized in event driven strategies, bankruptcy and distressed securities. Invested across the capital structure, with a primary focus in the developed markets of U.S. and Europe.

Analyst

2002 - 2005

Responsible for long/short equity investments in the energy, utility and related capital goods sector in Emerging Markets and select developed markets. Investment approach driven by a fundamental cash-flow based financial analysis - targeted to capture the delta in value and price of stocks.