A family office · The Kerala coast
We back founders building what comes next. We put in our own money, and we send our own engineers to build alongside them.
ThangamCapital
Patient capital for hard problems.
Deep-tech and research-backed?
If yes —
Disturb me, I’m free.Chris Philipose · Founder →Most investors send money and a calendar invite. We send money, an office, a legal team and an engineering team. Then we stay.
One investment · Two halves
I
Our own money. No outside fund and no fund clock, so nobody tells you when you have to be finished.
II
An engine room behind your product. You get engineers, not consultants, working from your first commit.
Who stands behind the cheque
By the family’s own traditionAD 52
By its own tradition the Pakalomattom family was baptised on the Kerala coast in the first century. For centuries its sons were the archdeacons who ran the everyday affairs of the Saint Thomas Christians: other people’s money, other people’s disputes, other people’s children, held in trust and handed on. This office is the same trade, with capital.
The family, and the promisesEvery claim meets the stone. We back science that holds up and products a customer already pays for.
Whoever sits at our table is looked after. Money is the easy part.
A hundred oars, one song. We sit in the boat, not on the bank.
Where we work
01
Models and the systems around them, built to run where the customer is rather than where the hardware happens to be.
02
The measurement and management of stored power: what a battery is doing, and what it will do next.
03
Genomics and diagnostics applied to the long game — keeping people well, measured over decades.
04
Teaching the next generation to instruct machines. The most durable thing a firm like ours can fund.
We do not publish our holdings. We can say where they are.
Begin
Where we come from, nothing important begins until a lamp is lit. Write us one paragraph. We read every note and answer every one within a week, even when the answer is no.