Decacorn Capital

Decacorn Capital is a cross-border venture funding initiative, centred around start-ups that use technology innovatively to create a defensible moat, led by high-caliber, resourceful founders who are out there with the mission to either create a true delight or solve a real problem

Our journey in this exciting world of start-ups is often on roads seldom traveled In these lonely roads, we love to co-invest with bell-weather investors, pioneers and others, in high-impact startups disrupting large market opportunities, either existing or newly enabled, with the aim to make our planet shades better than what we inherited from our parents

At Decacorn Capital, we seek to curate - from key destinations around the world - startups that are rare gems and have crossed an inflexion point in their life cycle

We aspire to stitch a string of pearls consisting of the next Apple, Tesla, Google, Amazon, Alibaba, Tencent by betting on Palantir, Postmates, 23andMe, SpaceX, BioCatch, Kraken, Figure Technologies, Mighty Buildings and the likes thereof carefully curated

Rather than following analogy and adopting the antiquated ways of the past such as the famous 100-mile radius that bay area VC's practiced in the late 20th century, we look out for the best in class, wherever they may be

Our endeavour is to connect the under-served consumers with pioneering, deep-tech work around the world, thus unlocking superior returns on our portfolio investments and for our investors

We look for startups harnessing the power of First Principles in leveraging disruptive technologies such as AI, Big Data & Deep Learning, Cloud, Edge & Quantum Computing, Blockchain, Digital Assets & Cryptos, Space Tech, Robotics and Genomics, in building businesses with rapid innovation cycles, resulting in instant gratification and large adoption curves

At Decacorn we have adopted a bar-belled approach of investing in start-ups that are in the Early-stage of their life cycle - offering a large multiplier effect - as well as in Growth-stage players with a proven business model, offering a big margin of safety and a higher probability of exits

Our Initial bite size is between US$ 300k to US$ 600k, with US$ 100k to US$ 1 million being the outliers, going up all the way to US$ 3 million across two or more follow-on rounds, usually in a co-investment with stalwarts and angels, bell-weather VC funds, accelerators and incubators

“I have known Debneel for several years and have always been intrigued at Decacorn Capital's differentiated investment style of curating cross-border, tech defensible disruptive innovators that have crossed an inflection point

It was thus but natural for me to reach out to Decacorn for an investment in Mighty Buildings where our endeavor has been to build sustainable affordable 3D printed homes with a cap table of investors who are in for long term and has an ability to pony up on their investments in subsequent rounds

Trust we would have a great journey together towards being a Decacorn and beyond "

• Slava Solonitsyn - Co-Founder & CEO of Mighty Buildings "We are very grateful to have the opportunity to work with the team at Decacorn They have given us sharp insights and sustained encouragement for our business Debneel and Abhijit deeply understand our vision here at Qupital and that is a core attribute that we look for in our investors It is exciting to be able to grow our company together with Decacorn and we believe their presence in Singapore is very helpful to our global expansion strategy "

• Andy & Winston - Founders of Qupital From the moment we first met Debneel at a small London cafe in January 2020, we knew immediately Decacorn was a VC fund we wanted to work with going forward He was deeply interested in us as founders, as people, what made us tick and how we had grown into founding this company It was refreshing and established a good bond from the get-go We got to meet the rest of the team later via video calls on many occasions and they’ve all been supportive where it has been needed, given advice on things we’d not have thought of ourselves and challenged us to look at new markets for hiring and new verticals we may not have considered otherwise A fantastic value-add investor, we are grateful to be working with Decacorn on our journey

• Karen & Taavi - Founders of Fyma It’s been a pleasure working alongside the Decacorn team across multiple rounds of funding The team has a strong, cross functional knowledge and also has a deep pool of industry connects that they leverage to help add strong value to their portfolio companies

• Greg Moran - Founder of ZoomCar "From our very first meeting, it was clear that we shared a common vision with Debneel and Abhijit - in order to change the world it is important to turn a game-changing idea into a truly outstanding business Decacorn’s founders have a proven track record in building teams and products which we look forward to leveraging on our own journey As GridIO sees Asia as an important market, Decacorn’s great standing in Singapore and global investment experience made them a perfect fit for joining our seed investment round "

• Konrad & Sandor - Founders of Grid IO "The Decacorn team especially Debneel and Abhijit with their disruptive approach to Venture Capital, and their incessant quest to think outside the box, has been providing a fresh yet unique perspective

Today they are much more than lead investors to us They are our trusted partner and a great friend; a must ‘go-to’ for our roller coaster ride, as we find them to put "Affable first" in all their discourse with us! That what we like most about Decacorn

As an outcome, Affable has rapidly transformed itself from two lone co-founders with a dream, to an exciting, rapidly growing startup with cross-border footprints, all set to raise our Series A ”

• Nisarg & Swayam - Founders of Affable AI “Decacorn has been a huge part of our journey so far Encouraging, when we're in the troughs, illuminating, when we're lost, without their support, Propine would not have won the trust of the regulators and our customers ”
• Tuhina & Liang Zan - Founders of Propine We are glad that we have Decacorn Capital as our lead investor Decacorn takes a very hands off approach to their portfolio companies, and have provided us complete freedom to run our business the way we want, but they are there immediately to support us whenever we need any help or guidance Both Abhijit & Debneel are very approachable people and being entrepreneurs themselves, they understand what it takes to build a successful startup
• Somsubhra & Himanshu - Founders of AI Palette