Trisha is a Senior Associate on the investment team at NIF, looking at startups and
founders across the 9 EDTs. She is particularly excited about the applications of
space, biotech, materials and energy to security and resilience. She is also
responsible for capacity building in Hungary, Romania, Czech Republic, and
Portugal, building relationships with local VCs and founders to better understand the
Deep Tech landscape in these regions.
Prior to joining the NIF, Trisha spent two years on the investment team at Seraphim
Space, a global venture capital fund investing in the New Space industry. Before
that, she was an Asset Management Analyst at HSBC for a couple of years, working
across public market equities and quantitative strategy. Trisha holds a Masters
degree in Physics from Imperial College London, where she focused her Masters
thesis on the magnetosphere of Saturn.
In her free time, Trisha helps out as a volunteer with the Space Science and
Engineering Foundation, an educational charity which runs events around the UK to
up-skill young students in STEM disciplines. She previously served on their Board of
Trustees from 2019-2024, and has been involved with their flagship program, the UK
Space Design Competition, since 2015.