Catalyst for Early-Stage Trends

Think for Tomorrow

“The ‘paradox’ is only a conflict between reality and your feeling of what reality ‘ought to be”. – Richard Feynman

we seek transformational & sustainable trend

Identifying transformational trends

We are a family office that invests in early stage long-term trends. We have a proprietary research and data centric approach to identify these trends and then incubate, accelerate or invest in businesses based on these trends. We typically look for asymmetric returns backed by special situation investment opportunities. Some of the areas that we focus on are millennial living, experiential travel, anti aging & cell regeneration, exotics & collectibles, kids creative tech, and luxury & wellness events.

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Founder

Madhur Maini

Madhur Maini has a track record in transformation as an advisor, financier, and professional entrepreneur.

Over his professional career spanning more than 20 years, Madhur has built a USD 3bn consumer company as a CEO, advised the leading entrepreneurs and governments in Asia- Pacific for strategy and capital raising, and also served as adjunct professor in a leading school of Public Policy.

Madhur graduated from the University of Pennsylvania, having completed the prestigious Management and Technology Program. He graduated from the Wharton School with a Bachelor of Economics.

S. Venkatesh

– CEO of Vietnam’s Masan Group

Madhur Maini

S. Venkatesh has a track record of over 20 years across the Asian markets in corporate strategy, private equity and listed equities.

He has led investments into the Indian infrastructure sector at Macquarie and AMP Capital Investors, driven strategy and institutional capital raising at a large Asian corporate, and led equity research teams at JP Morgan, Credit Suisse and Deutsche Bank. He has also served as a Director on the Boards of several companies in the infrastructure and financial services space.

He has a Bachelor of Technology degree from the Indian Institute of Technology (IIT) Delhi and is a Post Graduate In Management from the Indian Institute of Management (IIM) Kolkata.

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Catalyst for Consumer & Transformation

 Madhur Maini was the CEO of Vietnam’s Masan Group and instrumental in transforming it from a US$100m family office to a US$3bn+ market cap listed private sector conglomerate. Masan Group is a leader in consumer, banking, mining and agri businesses in Vietnam. He drove the group’s rapid growth with a three-pillar strategy that involved scaling existing businesses, attracting best-in-class long-term global capital and overseeing successful entry into new growth sectors. Through his tenor the company consumer business revenues grew from approximately usd 40 m to usd 750 m and the company owned 5 of the top 50 consumer brands in the country.

Prior to joining Masan Group, Madhur spent 12+ years in various leadership positions in investment banking in Asia Pacific at Merrill Lynch and Deutsche Bank. 

He scaled up various regional and product businesses in Southeast Asia.  He was also advisor to a number of regional governments for capital raising.

Madhur was an adjunct professor in the Lee Kwan Yew School of Public Policy from 2015-16 and contributed to the Data Analytics Program (Global Analytics and Behavioural Insights Network ‘GABIN’) at the LKY School.

Madhur graduated in the prestigious Management and Technology Program from University of Pennsylvania. He graduated from Wharton School with a degree in Bachelor of Economics.