Meet Our Team

Helping Entrepreneurs Scale Their Impact

TDK Ventures is bound together by a passion for technology and commitment to each portfolio company. Through our unwavering commitment to deliver TDK Goodness, we are a corporate VC dedicated to help entrepreneurs become Impact Scalers.
Andrew Maywah

Not Just a Corporate VC

We Partner in Your Vision

C

Contribute to Society

Our investments are guided by an unwavering commitment to making a meaningful contribution to society.

From enabling sustainable energy solutions, to accelerating advanced materials breakthrough, to ensuring wider availability of sophisticated healthcare technologies, our guiding investment principle is supporting entrepreneurs who are dedicated to making the world a better place.

O

One Team Reaching For The Sky

We consider the diversity and expertise of our core team and our extended teams a competitive differentiator.

We value and support the perspective and curiosity each member brings to the work we do every day.

As we embrace the spirit of innovation, we seize opportunities to set even higher standards that will serve entrepreneurs even better.

D

Deliver Deep Insights

The product we deliver is the deep insight developed in the high-growth strategic spaces we explore.

Our relentless quest of quality insights is inspired by our commitment to making better bets on the future and being a magnet to the right co-investors for our portfolio companies.

Ultimately, our goal is to help shape TDK's vision and growth strategy that will help make even greater contributions to society.

E

Entrepreneurs
First

Entrepreneurs are our customers, the heroes of our story.

They are at the core of everything we do – and the TDK Goodness we craft for them.

Every day we bring passion, conviction, courage, and patience to serve entrepreneurs and help them accelerate their dreams of a future that is sustainable and attractive for all.

Put our CODE to the test together and make the world a better place.

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HQ

  • HQ

Joan Benasa

HR Assistant
  • HQ

Jennifer Edwards

Communications Principal
  • HQ

Patrícia Correia

Team Assistant

HQ

  • HQ

Nicolas Sauvage

President
  • HQ

Selina Tan

Executive Assistant

Fund 2

  • Fund 2

Marc Bouchet

Senior Investment Associate
  • Fund 2

Henry Huang

Investment Director
  • Fund 2

Tina Tosukhowong

Investment Director
  • Fund 2

Yan Yan

Investment Analyst
  • Fund 2

Valentin Antoine

Investment Analyst
  • Fund 2

Vasan Churchill

Investment Analyst
  • Fund 2

Christ Wang

Fellow
  • Fund 2

Leon Froehlich

Fellow

Scaling

  • Scaling

Raphel Finelli

Marketing Principal
  • Scaling

Robert Porter

Financial Principal
  • Scaling

Bill Graves

Legal Principal
  • Scaling

Kareem Fahmy

Ecosystem Principal
  • Scaling

Starry Wang

Ecosystem Associate
  • Scaling

Jason DeSoto

HR Principal
  • Scaling

Aidan Latimer

Marketing Analyst
  • Scaling

Bhakti Goratela

Financial Analyst

Fund EX1

  • Fund EX1

Anil Achyuta

Investment Managing Director
  • Fund EX1

Katherine He

Investment Associate
  • Fund EX1

Joshua Rubnitz

Investment Analyst
  • Fund EX1

Adam Erlichman

Investment Analyst
  • Fund EX1

David Delfasy

Investment Director
  • Fund EX1

Sam Hill

Investment Analyst
  • Fund EX1

Alessandro Girardi

Fellow

Engagement

  • Engagement

Geetha Dholakia

Portfolio Program Director
  • Engagement

Chiaki Yoshikawa

Startup Liaison
  • Engagement

Thao Ngo

Portfolio Program Associate
  • HQ

Joan Benasa

HR Assistant
  • Engagement

Janaki Shanmugam

Portfolio Program Associate
  • Engagement

Tomohiro Noguchi

Technical Analyst
  • Engagement

Xiaofeng Wu

Technical Analyst
  • Engagement

Elena Watts-Pass

Portfolio Program Associate

Investment Team

  • Fund EX1

Anil Achyuta

Investment Managing Director
  • Fund 2

Marc Bouchet

Senior Investment Associate
  • Fund EX1

Katherine He

Investment Associate
  • Fund 2

Henry Huang

Investment Director
  • Fund 2

Tina Tosukhowong

Investment Director
  • Fund 2

Yan Yan

Investment Analyst
  • Fund 2

Valentin Antoine

Investment Analyst
  • Fund EX1

Joshua Rubnitz

Investment Analyst
  • Fund 2

Vasan Churchill

Investment Analyst
  • Fund EX1

Adam Erlichman

Investment Analyst
  • Fund 2

Christ Wang

Fellow
  • Fund EX1

David Delfasy

Investment Director
  • Fund EX1

Sam Hill

Investment Analyst
  • Fund EX1

Alessandro Girardi

Fellow
  • Fund 2

Leon Froehlich

Fellow

Platform Team

  • Scaling

Raphel Finelli

Marketing Principal
  • Scaling

Robert Porter

Financial Principal
  • Engagement

Geetha Dholakia

Portfolio Program Director
  • Scaling

Bill Graves

Legal Principal
  • Engagement

Chiaki Yoshikawa

Startup Liaison
  • Engagement

Thao Ngo

Portfolio Program Associate
  • HQ

Joan Benasa

HR Assistant
  • Scaling

Kareem Fahmy

Ecosystem Principal
  • Scaling

Starry Wang

Ecosystem Associate
  • Scaling

Jason DeSoto

HR Principal
  • Scaling

Aidan Latimer

Marketing Analyst
  • HQ

Jennifer Edwards

Communications Principal
  • Engagement

Janaki Shanmugam

Portfolio Program Associate
  • HQ

Patrícia Correia

Team Assistant
  • Engagement

Tomohiro Noguchi

Technical Analyst
  • Engagement

Xiaofeng Wu

Technical Analyst
  • Scaling

Bhakti Goratela

Financial Analyst
  • Engagement

Elena Watts-Pass

Portfolio Program Associate

Past Fellows

  • Past Fellows

Lina Mezzine

Fellow
  • Past Fellows

Hitomi Kondo

Fellow
  • Past Fellows

Marshall Wu

Fellow
  • Past Fellows

Sachiko Takano

Fellow
  • Past Fellows

Masayoshi Fujine

Fellow
  • Past Fellows

Miumi Hashimoto

Fellow
  • Past Fellows

Hugh Li

Fellow
  • Past Fellows

Marton Osze

Fellow