Tanglin Venture Partners

Before you write

• Tanglin Venture Partners is a venture fund. It takes equity in the companies it backs, so this is investment, not a grant.
• Check where your company fits: its portfolio is split into Consumer and Enterprise.
• Its news page shows rounds at seed, pre-Series A and pre-Series B, so it fits companies with a product and early customers.

How to reach it

• Fill the enquiry form on the home page (name, organisation, designation, email), or use the general enquiries inbox on the contact page.
• The site states no deadline, no criteria and no reply time.

What helps

• Its stated beliefs stress focus and long-term relationships, so explain why you want a small set of close investors.
• Show the size of the profit pool in your market and how you will capture it.

Tanglin Venture Partners is a venture capital firm with offices in Singapore and in Bengaluru, India. Its home page says it seeks to partner with entrepreneurs building fast-growing businesses with large profit pools. This is an investor, not a grant or an incubator, so there is no application window, cohort or programme to join.

What it invests in

The firm's portfolio page sorts its companies into two domains, Consumer and Enterprise. Consumer names include Pocket FM, Lifelong, Beco, MasterChow, abCoffee, Footprints and Matiks. Enterprise names include Moglix, Plum, Scapia, Credgenics, Sugar.fit, Ninjacart, SuperOps and PingSafe. The site does not publish a written stage rule. Its news page, though, reports rounds that it led at seed, pre-Series A and pre-Series B, so it has backed companies from an early stage onwards. The home page reports 2 Active Funds and 20+ Companies.

How the firm describes its approach

The home page lists four beliefs. Focus drives results: it aims to keep a concentrated portfolio of long-term relationships. Run slow to run fast: it says it is patient and long-term focused. Authentic relationships: it says a concentrated approach allows meaningful engagement with founders. We do our homework: it combines deep thematic understanding with on-the-ground legwork. For a founder, this reads as a firm that backs fewer companies and stays involved, so a pitch should show why your market has a large profit pool and why you can lead it.

How to reach it

The home page carries a short enquiry form that asks for your name, organisation, designation and email, under the line Interested in finding out more? Let us know. The contact page lists a general enquiries and media inbox on the firm's own domain. The site gives no pitch deck upload, no criteria, no deadline and no reply time, so treat any message as a cold approach to an investor and keep it brief and specific.

Offices and team

Its India office is in HSR Layout, Bengaluru, Karnataka. Its Singapore office is on Penang Road. The team page lists four senior people: Ravi Venkatesh and Russell Dreisenstock as Managing Partners in Singapore, Sankalp Gupta as a Managing Partner in India, and Shashank Sabesan as a Principal in India. It also lists a vice president in India, along with legal, finance, compliance and operations staff across both cities. Because the firm is run from both Singapore and India, expect it to look at companies serving Indian customers and markets beyond India.

Notes for founders

The site lists news about rounds in its companies, which is the best way to see what kind of deals it does. Read those before you write to the firm, and say in your first message which of its portfolio companies your business is closest to, and why you are different.