About Paths
Movement, made visible.
The routes that shape a life, named, kept, and worth returning to. Paths is building the visual layer for everyday movement, turning walks, runs, rides, drives, commutes and trips into records people can name, keep, share or gift.
It began with a run
In 2024, after twenty years in banking, our founder Niluka found herself between chapters. Something had lifted, but the answer had not arrived. So she started moving.
That September, she ran her first 5K through Kensington Gardens with her brother.
38:37.
By the standards of fitness data, nothing unusual. But when she stopped, she knew something had changed. It wasn’t exercise. It was something she wanted to keep.
Apple Fitness recorded the run: distance, route, time. A line on a dark map. Useful, accurate, and not enough. It showed where she had been, but it could not hold what it meant, and it was not something she would look at again.
A year later, she rebuilt that route in Paths and named it But I can move.
Tracking captured the run.
Paths kept what it meant.
The idea
Movement is one of the most universal things we do, yet most of it disappears. Some movement is tracked into data. Most is never kept at all.
Maps help us navigate. Trackers help us measure. Photos remember what something looked like.
Paths holds the movement itself, and makes it worth looking at: where you went, why it mattered, and why it stayed.
We believe people will come to want more than a camera roll of their lives. They will want to see their life in motion: the places they moved through, the routes they returned to, the journeys they shared, and the ordinary movements that became worth keeping.
The category we are building
Movement memory.
For the movements worth keeping.
Team Paths
Built by people who move.
Niluka Ratnayake
Founder and CEO
Niluka leads the vision, strategy and direction of Paths. After more than two decades in global financial services, she brings trust, infrastructure and a long view to a product built around something deeply human: everyday movement. For her, Paths began with a single run, and the realisation, only later, that tracking had captured where she had been, but not what it had meant. She is the everyday mover Paths is built for: walking through the city most days, running when the day calls for it, and noticing the routes that quietly become part of a life. Based in London.
Nirosh Perera
Co-founder
Nirosh is a professional artist, photographer and technologist, and the reason Paths looks the way it does. He brings together visual craft, product engineering and the systems that turn a route into a record people can keep, share and return to. His eye shapes the way Paths turns movement into something visual, personal and lasting. As co-founder of the boutique wildlife bush camp Makini, he also understands travel, place, and the journeys people remember. His own movement ranges from cycling and rugby to the quieter disciplines that keep him steady. Based in London.
Shavanka Ratnayake
Global Head of Partnerships
Shavanka leads how Paths grows across markets, communities and commercial partnerships. He spent two decades in banking across Asia Pacific and brings a global view of partnership, distribution and scale. He lives the wider movement world that shapes Paths: cycling routes across Singapore and beyond, long drives through Malaysia, and a rhythm of sport and recovery. For him, movement is not one thing: it is travel, sport, routine, and the rituals that shape a life. Based in Singapore, building globally.
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