A delivery team and advisors across programme design, venture support and AI systems. BUILD and LIFT have not yet completed their own full cohorts.
Nihal, Abhijit and Akshay form the delivery team. Advisors bring specific expertise where a mandate needs it. Rizwan Tayabali advises on SCALE. Not everyone listed is full-time or committed to every mandate.
Has built learning and venture programmes across five continents and supported climate and impact founders through international fellowships. Leads Threshold’s programme design and delivery.
Contact: nihal@limitless.institute
Has built community-led learning spaces across six countries, creating pathways for people from marginalised communities to learn, build and start ventures.
Has worked across learning spaces, venture support and operations. Builds practical AI tools, workflows and assistants that help founders and programme teams execute with human review.
Founded Apps for Good, whose work reached 1,000 schools. Advises on learning design and programmes that can work across organisations.
Five-time founder with more than 15 years’ international experience and technology deployments across 40+ countries. Director of Sustainable Ventures at beVisioneers; advises on venture building and responsible technology in the field.
Brings experience coaching founders and helping venture teams translate plans into operating decisions and repeatable execution.
Has built hardware, software and AI with major global technology companies. Advises on robust systems and practical AI implementation.
Founder and CEO of Fraktal, with experience in due diligence, organisational strengthening and scaling social impact, particularly in the Global South. Developed the PATRI Framework for Scaling Social Impact with Ashoka Globalizer and GIZ. Advises Threshold on SCALE: assessing scale potential and helping organisations choose their route to greater impact.
This is experience from the people and organisations named above. Threshold will report its own programme outcomes separately.
Programme architecture sets the container: fellowship and programme design, foundation partnerships and multi-country delivery.
Nihal AhmedAbhijit SinhaIris LapinskiAdvisorAkshay CherianVenture coaching moves the founder’s bottleneck: founder coaching, venture building and progression from first commitment to repeat demand.
Nihal AhmedAbhijit SinhaAkshay CherianPatrick MeierAdvisorNorm TrainorAdvisorAI workflows return execution capacity: go-to-market, fundraising, operations and evidence. Built for human approval, not black-box autonomy.
Akshay CherianVarun PerumalAdvisorThe standard: starting point → work done → outside evidence → follow-up check. Activity alone does not prove demand.
We report team experience, venture progress and long-term outcomes separately.