TRTL Ventures

Before you pitch

• TRTL Ventures is a venture investor and takes equity. It is not a grant or an incubator, and it publishes no application window.
• It is based in Singapore and says it invests in early-stage Indian startups. Founders who already have several institutional rounds are probably past its stated stage.
• Check that your product fits its thesis: internet businesses with a data acquisition strategy and a DeepTech angle.

How to reach them

• Email your pitch deck or business summary to the pitch inbox on the site.
• The site asks you to tell it everything about your business so it can make quick contact, should interest arise.

What they say they look for

• Startups building a dominant virtual platform with a solid data acquisition strategy.
• Problem-oriented founders who solve real problems with AI and other deep technologies.

What to expect

• The site states no timeline, cheque size or fund size.
• The site mentions help expanding into the Japanese market through a venture partner.

TRTL Ventures is a Singapore-based venture capital firm. This page is here because its own site says it invests in early-stage Indian startups, so it is an overseas investor for Indian founders, not an Indian fund with a local office. Its site shows no India office, so expect to pitch it remotely.

Who TRTL Ventures backs

The firm says it invests in early-stage Indian startups tackling real problems through internet and DeepTech-based innovation. It backs early-stage startups that are building a dominant virtual platform with a solid data acquisition strategy, so that they can solve problems through DeepTech solutions. It names AI, blockchain, robotics, quantum computing and biotechnology as the deeper technologies that unlock that data. It describes its debut fund as aimed at the seeds of the next big innovations.

Why India

The site calls India the perfect setting for technology to bloom, because of its rich and diverse data pool, and says it expects India's demographic and deep talent resources to build a DeepTech-based economy. It says it aims to nurture the seeds of the Indian story and contribute to the global scaling of these startups.

How it works with founders

TRTL says it wants to assist visionary entrepreneurs right from the beginning, and guides them in surfacing user demand so they can develop their best products. It says it wants to become a vital ecosystem partner, building a network that connects founders, employees, investors, business partners and end-users. The site also describes a venture partner who helps portfolio companies expand into the Japanese market.

How to pitch

This is an investor, not a programme with an application window, so there is no deadline or cohort. The site invites entrepreneurs to send a pitch deck or business summary to its pitch inbox, and asks you to tell it everything about your business so it can make quick contact should interest arise. The site publishes no cheque size, fund size or selection timeline, so ask early what a round would look like. Its portfolio is shown only as logos, and the site gives no fund size, so read it as a small early-stage fund only by its own description of early-stage seed investing.