Deepa Anjali Desai

Principal, Thornfield Venture Partners - venture capital · due diligence · board work

Thornfield Venture Partners

Dallas, TX · CT (UTC-6)

8+ years experience

University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign

English, German

Investing

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Overview

Principal at Thornfield Venture Partners, backing fintech companies. Backed 52 founders at pre-seed and seed. Sit on 7 boards. Before that: Shopify and Intel. Most at home with venture capital and due diligence.

Good reasons to reach out

Founders building in fintech
Thoughtful intros to people in my field
Speaking or podcast invitations
Questions about fintech

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Decks without a clear ask
Generic networking requests
SEO and link-building offers

Replies on weekends

Skills

venture capitaldue diligenceboard work

InvestingLooking to invest

closes in 3 months

Writing $500k cheques into seed fintech in the UK

Cheque size: $500k
Stages: Seed, Series A
Sectors: Fintech, AI applications
Geographies: Global
Lead or follow: Lead
Decision time: One meeting and a partner call
How I help: Hiring the first ten people

Usually the first cheque in. We reply to every founder.

Dallas, TXdue diligenceventure capitalboard work

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Experience

Principal
Mar 2026 - Present
Thornfield Venture Partners · 7 mo · Full-time · Dallas, TX
- Led or co-led 20 investments, 8 of them now at Series B or later.
- Backed 49 founders at pre-seed and seed.
- Previously an operator for 9 years before investing.
Partnerships Manager
Jul 2023 - Mar 2026
Shopify · 2 yr 8 mo · Full-time · Dallas, TX
- Signed 7 channel partners that now source 45% of pipeline.
Senior Account Executive
Dec 2021 - Mar 2023
Intel · 1 yr 3 mo · Full-time · Dallas, TX
- Shortened the healthcare sales cycle from 10 months to 6.
- Closed 187% of quota two years running.
Enterprise Account Executive
Mar 2020 - Dec 2021
Fidelity Investments · 1 yr 9 mo · Full-time · Dallas, TX
- Closed 222% of quota two years running.
- Signed 13 channel partners that now source 20% of pipeline.
Partnerships Manager
Nov 2018 - Mar 2020
Boeing · 1 yr 4 mo · Full-time · Dallas, TX
- Signed 7 channel partners that now source 34% of pipeline.
- Opened 6 new logos over $3 million ACV in the region.

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Education

University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign
BS, Economics
2013 - 2017

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