Early Partners to Exceptional Entrepreneurs
What we invest in
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Early stage: Pre-seed to seed funding with initial product market fit (i.e strong Stage 1 "love"metrics with initial customers).
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Large effective addressable markets: Good rules of thumb - Multiple companies exist that could buy you at $1B, you can capture a reasonable share from incumbents, global or pan-regional aspirations.
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Superior team: Founders and early teams that demonstrate the following capabilities: rapid execution, ability to attract great talent, curious and hungry
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Investment areas: Vertical SaaS, AI first solutions, VMS
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Geographies: USA & Southeast Asia​​
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Founder
Phalgun Raju
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Phalgun is the Managing Partner of Morph Ventures, where she invests in early stage startups across USA and Southeast Asia. She is also co-chair of Morph.org that funds young geniuses in emerging markets. She is a Kauffman Fellow and was named an Asia 21 Young Leader by the Asia Society. She is a Member of the Board for U-Go Singapore and was on the ASEAN Board of Room to Read.
Prior to Morph Ventures, Phalgun led and scaled key businesses and regions at InMobi, Google and Nokia. Prior to that she advised F500 companies at McKinsey & Company. Phalgun was named to Business Insider’s Most Powerful Women in Mobile Advertising. Her work has been covered and profiled in media like The Wall Street Journal and The Economic Times.
Phalgun has a MBA from Harvard Business School and a Masters in Mechanical Engineering from MIT, and a Bachelors in Mechanical Engineering from the University of Pittsburgh.