We are a team of operators who have lived and
breathed building businesses.

We are a team of operators who have lived and breathed building businesses. We roll up our sleeves and get down in the trenches with the founders and are the first port of call whenever they run into a roadblock – anything that needs to be done to keep the lights on, we are your guys. Our mission is, to help the next set of technical founders, with small amounts of early capital in getting to market to build efficient and scalable businesses.

We have seen and experienced the magic that happens at the intersection of network effects, technology and innovative business models and invest in ideas that leverage the benefits of platforms, protocols and modularity.

Stage Focused

Sector Agnostic

First Institutional check upto $750k

Follow-ons upto $3-4M

Why seafund?

What are we looking for?

Our process

Stage and check sizes

Fund metrics
We make between 15-20 investments per fund and we expect, hope, and work hard to make sure that 3-4 of those investments turn into high impact companies that can each return the fund.
Stage and check sizes
Our entry point is typically Seed or pre- Series A with a check size of upto $750,000. We continue to invest in subsequent rounds to protect our ownership and expect to deploy $2 - $4M overall in some of our outperformers. Like with the first fund, we expect to deploy upwards of 50% of the corpus as follow-ons.
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What is singular to Seafund
Our founders have experienced that we are more than just a check. We have worked with our portfolio ranging from helping with a go to market strategy to founder conflict to plowing money when none else was available; even convincing bigger funds sitting on the cap table to back the founder when they were earlier in favor of curbing fund infusion.
Early stage and Seafund
We work deeply with founders to help them build a product, think through their GTMs and on occasions even frame one and are hands-on with their key operational issues. At the stage that we come in, founders don’t need investors who are well versed with financial engineering or have been with marquee consulting firms. They need help from folks who have operated businesses and our team brings that in spades.
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Early stage with some product-market fit
We invest in early-stage companies, preferably with some semblance of a product market fit at the intersection of network effects, technology and innovative business models by leveraging platforms, protocols, and the power of modularity.
Returning founders with non-obvious market opportunities
We believe returning founders who have learned the rules of the startup game in their first stint, whether it be a success or a failure, have had their trial by fire and are in it for the right reasons, having learnt key lessons that will enable them to crash timelines to scale businesses. The question you need to answer is whether you have discovered a nonobvious market opportunity where you have a unique advantage or approach, and one that competing players won’t see until you’ve had a chance to build a healthy lead.
Solutions that give back people's time
One of the things we are looking for is solutions that give people back the most precious thing they have in their lives, which is their time. If you give people their time back, they will love you forever and keep coming back for more.
India for India play that can be scaled globally
We value an India for India play, which can then subsequently be scaled to, first, similar markets and subsequently globally. SaaS, Deeptech, Healthcare, Fintech, Agritech, Mediatech, Hardware/Embedded Systems are some of the industries that we have invested in or will in the future - where machine learning and deep technology are deployed to build startups that operate in the enterprise and consumer space.
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Seafund’s view on sectors
We are stage-focused and sector agnostic. Themes and trends are traps for entrepreneurs and investors. Sometimes, themes are predictive and useful. We don’t believe that we have all the answers - in fact founders teach us more than what we have learnt so far. Doing the upfront work to have a thesis before investing in a sector is important, and we do that, but it only acts as a guardrail for us.
Rationale for our investment areas
There are 15- 20 companies that are produced each year that matter. The odds that those big ideas are going to occur in the same sector over and over again is very, very low. So, by definition, we chose to be agnostic. Nothing is off-limits for us. Nothing really scares us. And the world’s changing so quickly that we think you need to have that mindset to catch the next big thing.
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Fund metrics
We make between 15-20 investments per fund and we expect, hope, and work hard to make sure that 3-4 of those investments turn into high impact companies that can each return the fund.
Stage and check sizes
Our entry point is typically Seed or pre- Series A with a check size of upto $750,000. We continue to invest in subsequent rounds to protect our ownership and expect to deploy $2 - $4M overall in some of our outperformers. Like with the first fund, we expect to deploy upwards of 50% of the corpus as follow-ons.
Apply
What is singular to Seafund
Our founders have experienced that we are more than just a check. We have worked with our portfolio ranging from helping with a go to market strategy to founder conflict to plowing money when none else was available; even convincing bigger funds sitting on the cap table to back the founder when they were earlier in favor of curbing fund infusion.
Early stage and Seafund
We work deeply with founders to help them build a product, think through their GTMs and on occasions even frame one and are hands-on with their key operational issues. At the stage that we come in, founders don’t need investors who are well versed with financial engineering or have been with marquee consulting firms. They need help from folks who have operated businesses and our team brings that in spades.
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