Devika Thapar, Wilbe Capital

Devika Thapar is Co-Founder, COO, and General Partner at Wilbe Capital. See sector focus and contact routes.

About Devika Thapar

Devika Thapar is Co-Founder, COO, and General Partner at Wilbe Capital, a venture firm dedicated to helping scientists and engineers commercialize research into generational companies. She previously spent a decade as a corporate executive building products and teams in AI, enterprise software, and deeptech across New York, London, New Delhi, and Amsterdam, and served as Head of New Products at IBM Watson. Her investment thesis targets pre-seed to seed stages in deep-tech sectors including material science, energy tech, hardware, agtech, biotech, semiconductors, therapeutics, and climate tech, with a global focus. Typical check sizes range from $100,000 to $500,000, and she acts as an angel investor and board member while supporting scientist founders. Notable portfolio companies include Proxima Fusion, Milvus Advanced, ExpressionEdits, and Apoha, where she is a founding team member and investor. Thapar emphasizes that capital remains a bottleneck at scale, particularly in Europe beyond Series A, and advocates for providing scientists with tools, community, capital, and lab space to accelerate company formation.

Devika Thapar at a glance

Role
Co-Founder, COO and Partner
Organization
Wilbe Capital
Location
New York, New York, United States
Investor type
Individual/Angel
Focus areas
AI

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Devika Thapar at Wilbe Capital (New York, New York, United States) — sector focus: AI.
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Devika Thapar is based in New York, New York, United States.

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