Tanglin Venture Partners Research
Investment Thesis
Tanglin Venture Partners (TVP) is a Singapore and Bengaluru based venture firm that partners with entrepreneurs building fast-growing businesses with large profit pools, mainly in India and Southeast Asia. Its homepage states four beliefs: focus drives results, run slow to run fast, authentic relationships, and doing the homework through deep thematic understanding combined with on-the-ground legwork. The firm aims to keep a concentrated portfolio of long-term relationships rather than spreading thin.
Stage Focus
TVP primarily invests at Series A, according to its LinkedIn description. Public announcements also show pre-Series A and pre-Series B rounds (Matiks pre-Series A in August 2025, Beco pre-Series B in August 2024) and seed leads (abCoffee, Scapia), so it will go earlier or slightly later when it has conviction.
Check Size
The website lists cheques of up to $8M. Announced TVP-led rounds range from about $2M (abCoffee seed) to $10M (Beco pre-Series B), with Footprints Childcare at $7.5M.
Lead Tendency
TVP leads regularly: Beco, Matiks, abCoffee and Footprints were announced as led by or raised from TVP. In later rounds of larger companies such as Pocket FM, Scapia, SuperOps and Plum it appears as a continuing investor while other firms lead. Lead tendency is rated both.
Recent Activity
Fund size: the firm reports about $250M in assets under management across 2 active funds, and a Dakota report on an SEC filing says it is seeking $250M for a third flagship fund. Recent announcements include Plum's $20M Series B (March 2026), Matiks' $3.1M pre-Series A led by TVP (August 2025), Footprints Childcare's $7.5M (May 2025), and a Greenjets Series A in July 2026 per CB Insights. Third-party trackers (Tracxn, PitchBook) show continued deal flow into October 2026, which suggests the firm is actively deploying.
Portfolio Highlights
The site lists 29 portfolio companies split between Consumer and Enterprise, with all tagged as exited by the site's filter label. Notable names:
- Pocket FM, audio content platform ($103M raise in March 2024)
- Moglix, B2B MRO platform (valued at $2.6B in January 2022)
- Jupiter and Open, neobanks for consumers and businesses
- Scapia, travel-focused credit card platform
- Credgenics, debt collection software
- SuperOps, MSP software ($25M Series C, January 2025)
- PingSafe, acquired by SentinelOne for over $100M (January 2024)
- Houseware, acquired by LaunchDarkly (February 2025)
- Ninjacart, Plum, Sugar.fit, Beco, Lifelong, Inshorts/Public
Team
- Ravi Venkatesh, Managing Partner, Singapore
- Sankalp Gupta, Managing Partner, India
- Russell Dreisenstock, Managing Partner, Singapore
- Shashank Sabesan, Principal, India
- Monish Bhangale, Vice President, India
- Teng Rui Loh, Associate, Singapore
- Kelvin Tan, Investment Strategy, Singapore
- Operations staff cover legal, finance, compliance and office management.
Decision Process
The firm is a partnership with three managing partners and a small investment team across two offices, so decisions are most likely made at partner level. No public detail on timeline or warm-intro requirements was found.
Founder Preferences
Founders building businesses with large profit pools who value a small set of long-term, high-engagement relationships. Portfolio breadth suggests comfort with both consumer brands (food and beverage, D2C, childcare) and enterprise or fintech software.
Geographic Focus
India is the core market, with Southeast Asia (Indonesia via Bukuwarung, Vietnam via Trusting Social) secondary. Offices: 163 Penang Road, Singapore, and HSR Layout, Bengaluru.
Gaps
The site gives no stage or investment dates per company, no decision timeline, and no fund vintage details. Check size ceiling and AUM come from the firm's own homepage.