TheVentures is an early-stage investor built by founders who exited their own companies. We treat your time as the thing that matters most, and we leave the running of your company to you.
Founded Viki and sold it to Rakuten for more than $200 million
Every one of our partners founded a company that TheVentures backed
Co-founded Sellit, acquired by Kakao; later sold Bunjang for $150 million
Co-founded Sellit; led its merger with Bunjang and served as CCO
Founded ParkingSquare, acquired by Kakao in 2016
Founders’ time is their most valuable asset. We decide after a single interview, and there is no pitch presentation. You get our review the business day after you apply, and the whole process through funding takes less than a week.
See our investment processTheVentures has invested in more than 260 companies, building a community that connects founders with one another. Whether you need a quick answer or want to explore a new business opportunity, you can get support from people who have faced the same challenges.
Through our Bridge program, we help founders spend less time fundraising and connect with more investors with less effort. For teams expanding into the US or Southeast Asia, we actively make introductions to investors on the ground there.
We step in when founders need support and stay out of the way when they don’t. As a TIPS program operator, we achieved a 100% acceptance rate in 2024 through hands-on coaching.
Many of the companies in our portfolio that went on to succeed looked nothing like that when we invested. Early-stage investing means finding product-market fit together, so we don’t dwell on how proven your current model is.
We look at the market and the team: markets that are small today but growing fast, teams that know the heart of their business and can execute it better than anyone, and teams that approach a problem others failed to solve differently.
If this sounds like your team,
we’d love to hear from you
