Tanglin Venture Partners

Tanglin Venture Partners is an early-stage venture capital firm founded in 2018, headquartered in Singapore with an investment office in Bengaluru, India. It seeks to partner with entrepreneurs building fast-growing businesses with large profit pools across India and Southeast Asia, concentrating on consumer-focused technology and business-services companies. Core sectors include SaaS, commerce, fintech and digital health, and the firm primarily writes Series A cheques while also leading earlier and pre-Series B rounds. Tanglin manages roughly $250M in assets across two active funds, holds a deliberately concentrated portfolio of 20 to 32 companies, and deploys cheques of up to $8M; it is reportedly raising a third fund targeting $250M. Its investment philosophy emphasizes focus, patience, authentic long-term founder relationships, and deep thematic plus on-the-ground research. The firm was established by Ravi Venkatesh and is led by Managing Partners Ravi Venkatesh, Sankalp Gupta and Russell Dreisenstock, supported by a team of around 16 including principals such as Nitin Govindan. The portfolio includes two unicorns, Open, which reached unicorn status in 2022, and Moglix, a B2B MRO platform, plus Pocket FM, Plum, Lifelong, Ninjacart, Public, PingSafe (acquired by SentinelOne for over $100M) and Houseware (acquired by LaunchDarkly in February 2025). In 2025 Tanglin made five investments, leading rounds for Beco ($10M pre-Series B), Footprints Childcare ($7.5M) and Matiks ($3.1M pre-Series A); its most recent tracked investment was a follow-on in Plum's $20M Series B in March 2026. Tanglin pairs a concentrated, research-driven approach with a willingness to lead across India and Southeast Asia.