MEET Tina
Tina Tosukhowong is an Investment Director at TDK Ventures. She leads the cleantech and the advanced-material investment areas.
Her background spans two decades as an operator in biotech and material industries, as well as a deep-tech investor in multiple industries. Prior to joining TDK Ventures, she led the Corporate Ventures practice at GC Ventures America, a corporate ventures arm of PTT Global Chemical, where she invested in cleantech, biotech, and advanced materials.
Prior to her venture career, Tina spent a decade in the biotech and material industries and held numerous roles in research & development, scale up & technology transfer, application development, and business development.
Tina holds a Ph.D. in Chemical Engineering and a Certificate in Management of Technology from Georgia Institute of Technology. She is also a graduate of Harvard Business School’s Private Equity and Venture Capital program.
Tina has been recognized by the Global Corporate Venturing as Top 50 Emerging Leaders in 2021 and 2023.
AWARDS
Portfolio Companies Served
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Divirod’s cost-effective and scalable water network solution brings accessible, hyperlocal, and high-quality data in real-time.
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microLED innovator VueReal Inc. brings unprecedented throughput, precision, and yield to the multi-billion-dollar microLED industry with its revolutionary “microprinting” mass transfer approach VueReal’s methodology addresses
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Type One Energy is tackling the technical challenges that have kept fusion from becoming a practical reality with the latest advances in additive manufacturing and high-temperature superconductor magnets.
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pH7 Technologies developed a proprietary metal-extraction process utilizing non-toxic organic and inorganic chemistry, as well as electrochemistry to drive extraction of metals and key minerals from ores, concentrates, and end-of-life materials.
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At INERATEC, they are pioneering the post-fossil fuel age by saying goodbye to crude oil and saying hello to a planet powered by synthetic fuel. Made in their Power-to-X plants, their e-Fuels and e-Chemicals can change the transportation and chemical industries as we know them.
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NovoLINC has developed a unique nanostructured materials system and proprietary manufacturing process to revolutionize thermal management for high-performance computing, data centers, automobile, aerospace and power electronics.
Eridu builds AI-optimized network switches that deliver order-of-magnitude gains in radix and throughput, maximizing efficiency in scale-out and scale-up data center clusters.
Mixx Technologies is redefining AI scalability with disruptive innovation and sustainable technologies that bridge the current gaps in performance, power, and efficiency.
Current & Ongoing Deep Explorations
High Temperature Superconductor
High-temperature superconductors (HTS) are projected to grow rapidly across power transmission, medical, fusion, and quantum applications. Supply-demand imbalance may create opportunity, but scaling Western HTS production remains difficult due to rare-earth-element feedstock constraints and manufacturing throughput limits. This offers innovation opportunities for new materials and novel high-throughput and scalable manufacturing processes.
Isotope Production
Radioisotopes are foundational to medicine, fusion power, and industry. Most are produced in aging nuclear reactors, many over 50 years old and nearing retirement by the 2030s. Rising demand, limited supply, and emerging alternative production approaches may unlock scalable, high-efficiency, high-purity isotope production with venture-scale potential.
Previous Deep Explorations
Photonic Light Source for Transceivers
Green Steel
Advanced Cooling
Carbon utilization via sustainable aviation fuel
Magnetic Materials
Climate Risk Intelligence Landscape
Solar Windows
Nuclear Fission Based Small Modular Reactors Landscape
Micro LED Landscape
Heating Technologies for Building Sector
Carbon Capture
Precious Metal Recycling
Software for Climate Management
Climate Risk Intelligence
Nuclear Technology Landscape / Fusion
Nothing in life is to be feared. It is only to be understood.
- Marie Curie