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Ms. Nin Desai is an experienced fund manager and a technology geek. Her experience spans all facets of mergers and acquisitions, and corporate finance including public offerings and private placements. Her sweet spot is investing in creative technologies.

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She started her professional career at Merrill Lynch with their Investment Management team. Then she joined  Pacific Crest Securities (now Key Bank), a technology investment banking firm. Her experience spans all facets of mergers and acquisitions, and corporate finance including public offerings and private placements. Her Pacific Crest corporate finance transactions include RACK, LOOP, LQDT, DBTK, AMIS, SLRY, VOCS, OWW and others. Her M&A deal sheet includes the sale of Financial Profiles to EISI, Buyseasons to Liberty Media, and others. After which she ended up at Alpha Capital Partners, a private equity firm (or Alpha), Ms. Desai was responsible for identification and evaluation of potential investments across a range of industries. At Alpha, she successfully completed the sale of Sircon (portfolio company), a software as a service provider company, to Vertafore. She is a Microsoft Certified Systems Engineer (MCSE), and has a B.B.A and an M.B.A in Finance/International Business from Loyola University of Chicago. In 2012, she attended a leadership program in Private Equity and Venture Capital at Harvard Business School.

 

Ms. Desai has been awarded 2015 CEO Of The Year – Illinois, for innovation and contribution to the Venture Capital & Private Equity industry by Acquisition International magazine and Private Equity Fund Manager to Watch for 2017 by Corporate America. NIN Ventures (or NIN.VC) has been the recipient of several awards including Wealth and Finance International Magazine's "Best Technology Venture Capital Fund - Illinois" for the Alternative Investment Awards, the "Best Crowdfunded Technology Venture Capital Fund - US" for the Fund Awards, and “Leaders in Private Equity – Illinois” by Corporate Vision magazine to name a few.

She has been featured in VentureBeat, Chicago Tribune, Chicago Sun Times, Forbes, Inc, WGN's After Hours with Rick Kogan, NBC Weekend Web with Charlie Wojciechowski, Bloomberg's Taking Stock, Crowdfund Insider, and CIO Review to name a few. ​