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-Asia 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: SaaS, B2B AI solutions, DevOps, Future of Work, Collaboration
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Geographies: India and Southeast Asia startups primarily. USA-based startups opportunistically.
Current Investments
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Team
Phalgun Raju, Managing Partner
Phalgun is the Managing Partner of Morph Ventures, where she invests in early stage startups across India and Southeast Asia. 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 Room to Read ASEAN.
Prior to Morph Ventures, Phalgun led and scaled key businesses and regions at InMobi, Google and Nokia. She was one of the youngest Engagement Managers in the history of McKinsey & Company. Phalgun was named to Business Insider’s Most Powerful Women in Mobile Advertising and the only one in Asia. Her work has been covered and profiled in media such as The Wall Street Journal and The Economic Times. She has received numerous industry and leadership awards and regularly speaks on entrepreneurship and venture at events.
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.