OUR STORY

Hello! I am Nin Desai. I started my professional career at Merrill Lynch with their private client group. At Merrill, we managed portfolios of high net worth individuals. While it was great to trade stocks and bonds, I was always curious about how these companies went public. Thus, after business school I joined Pacific Crest Securities.

PCS (now Key Bank) is a technology focused investment bank, with a global presence focused on software, communications, semiconductors, and Internet & Digital Media. Some of the transactions I worked on at PCS are RACK, LOOP, LQDT, DBTK, AMIS, SLRY, VOCS, OWW and others. In 2005, IPO’s were at the peak and it was amazing to take all these companies public, but that lead to another question, every company we took public was Venture backed, so how do VCs know what companies to invest in and which ones to take public?

Thus I joined Alpha Capital Partners. Alpha was a generalist fund with about $135m of assets under management. My most recent transaction at Alpha was Sircon, a software as a service provider company. 

I launched NIN Ventures in 2013, which was a first of its kind crowdfunded technology venture capital fund to be marketed, raised, managed, and reported online. Our sweet spot was investing in Creative Technology companies.

NIN Ventures had been the recipient of numerous awards and I was also awarded, 2015 CEO Of The Year – Illinois, for innovation and contribution to the Venture Capital & Private Equity industry.