Trizaistra Catalyst invests in early-stage startups that improve how people connect, trade and get things done, whatever country they live in. We write early checks, then stay close with hands-on commercial help.
Trizaistra Catalyst is the angel investing arm of Trizaistra. We look for small, ambitious teams whose products help people reach each other: a seller reaching a buyer on another continent, a service that suddenly works in a new language, a tool that saves someone an hour a day.
A catalyst speeds up a reaction without taking it over. That is how we want to work with founders: early capital, real commercial experience across four countries, and the judgment to step back.
Products that make it easier for people to talk, meet, trade and trust each other.
Companies that make an everyday service faster, fairer or easier to use.
Ideas built to cross markets, starting in one country and designed for many.
Orbitra Commerce is building an e-commerce highway for the world: one route that lets sellers sell anywhere and buyers buy from anywhere. Trizaistra Catalyst made its first investment here and is the lead investor.
Where most ideas first meet a large market.
Our home base, and a demanding market to prove quality.
Scale, speed and a market we know from the inside.
Years of launch experience on the ground in Shanghai.
Wherever a strong team is building something people everywhere can use.
Early, right-sized checks for teams that need to build, test and win first customers before a large round makes sense.
Hands-on help taking a product into a new country: partners, distribution, pricing, and the local details that decide a launch.
Three decades of global commercial work across the US, Japan, India and China, available to founders when it matters.
Founder & Lead Investor
Hrishi is a global commercial leader with more than 30 years of experience across four countries: India, the United States, China and now Japan.
He began his career in India in his family's business, an SKF ball-bearing distributor, where he learned the fundamentals of sales, customer relationships and local purchasing. He then moved to the United States to study, and after consulting at Capgemini he spent two decades at Abbott and AbbVie.
At Abbott he started in roles that taught him the behind-the-scenes work of drug development in R&D. He then moved into senior strategy roles, including serving on the committee that separated AbbVie from Abbott, one of the largest corporate separations in healthcare. From there he held diverse commercial and global marketing leadership roles before moving to Shanghai, where he spent three years preparing the China launch of a product with blockbuster potential.
In 2025 he made a leap of conviction. He stepped away from a successful corporate career to build and back products that make everyday life better for people. Based in Tokyo, he founded Trizaistra Technology and Trizaistra Catalyst, which made its first investment as lead investor in Orbitra Commerce.
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