About
Director - Strategic Partnerships and Growth. Divyang manages founder pipeline and advisor referral relationships into TGC's investment process, and supports first-meeting diligence and engagement-model qualification for founders entering the funnel. His focus remains on Norway as a primary market while serving businesses across Nordics.
Areas of focus
- Strategic partnerships
- Business development
Regions covered
Divyang Pandya works directly with founders across Global, Nordics, Norway, India. TGC’s coverage is structured to keep relationships local where it matters - first conversations, board cadence, in-market diligence - and pan-platform where scale makes it valuable, such as cross-border expansion, capital strategy, and embedded operating deployment from the Gateway Group operating organisation.
What this seat does at TGC
Strategic Partnerships and Growth is one of four primary functions inside TGC Capital Partners, alongside the firm’s other investment, partnerships, operations, and fund-operations groups.
The Strategic Partnerships and Growth team builds the operator network, advisor relationships, and founder-community infrastructure that underpins TGC’s deal origination and embedded execution model. The team is structured to keep the firm’s funnel diverse, regionally balanced, and operating-thesis-led rather than transaction-led.
How Divyang works with founders
Founders engaging with TGC typically meet Divyang as part of the first-meeting and operating-thesis phase, where the conversation moves quickly from a pitch deck to the binding execution constraints the company faces in the next two operating stages. The engagement model is structured so that capital, operating capacity, and governance support land together - under a written operating thesis with quarterly milestones - rather than as three separate transactions.
Related team
Other partners and operators in the Strategic Partnerships and Growth group: Pavak Shah, Payal Matharu.
Other partners with regional coverage overlapping Divyang’s: Niraj Gemawat, Alf Lande, Gaute Green-Stensrud.
Related reading
- The TGC platform - how the firm is structured to deploy capital alongside operating capacity.
- Engagement models - how the engagement shape varies by stage and operating thesis.
- Markets we cover - the regional coverage map and local operating context.
- Portfolio - companies the firm currently partners with under operating-thesis engagements.