introduction: more than a cheque
Seafund supports startups with more than just funding. We invest our time, insight, and operational experience into helping founders grow. At the early stage, you don’t need financial engineers you need partners who understand the realities of building a business. That’s where we come in.
Time
We invest our time in your success understanding your vision and driving it forward with every very moment we invest is focused on building your success.
Insights
Strategic guidance powered by proven experience. We turn insights into your competitive advantage.
experience
We bring operational expertise right when you need it most. Our experience helps turn challenges into growth opportunities.
How We Help: Our Value Adds
Founders working with Seafund benefit from:
Strategy Building
Having been operators managing large businesses, entreprenuerial ventures and startups ourselves, we have a first hand understanding of what founders need. We work hand in hand with our portfolio companies helping them build strategies for the long term. We provide support in Go-To Market strategy, refining the revenue model as per market trends, product feature prioritisation amongst others.
market insights
Our team is deeply entrenched in the venture ecosystem for over two decades. The passion for frontier new age technologies unites us and has enabled us to be a core member of the various private and public institutions in the country working towards mainstream access to such advanced technologies. This access coupled with our experience of speaking to over 2000 founders in a year, gives us the key insights about the trends in the market, what’s working and why.
Key Management Hiring
We truly believe that the key founding team is the essence of the business at the pre-seed to pre-series A stages. Since the highest risk in the business it in its early stages, it is critical to have the right members by your side building for the future. Thus we work closely with the founders to help in making this essential decision by providing guidance, support in interviews and reference checks.
First Few Customer Access
Early stage startups often need the first push to prove their technology works. Then the product led growth kicks in. Our leadership team’s strong and diversified network unlocks these opportunities for our portfolio founders. Many of our companies have had meaningful conversations with key decision makers who have often converted in POC/ paid clients.
Tools / Partner Support
The team has built a diverse gallery of tools and vendor partnerships which our portfolio companies can take benefit of. These include key subscriptions to cloud credits and productivity tools. Additionally, we have designated vendor partners for compliance, legal functions, financial management, IP filings and software teams which we can connect the founders with.
Founder Conversations
Despite our best attempts, there are some cases where the founders have internal conflicts with the management team at their company. When we come on-board we build tight relationships with each member of the team. This trust is built over years of hard work. Our years of experience managing firms, has enabled us to handle internal conflicts well through open conversations to ensure the streamlined business operations.
Jobs at Our Startups
We maintain a central job board featuring opportunities from our portfolio companies. Whether you’re a developer, marketer, product manager, or operations leader, we’re always looking to connect great talent with high-growth startups.
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Submit your resume to our founders talent pool
Get matched with opportunities as they arise
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Fresh roles are added from our growing portfolio
Founder Conversations
Hear directly from our portfolio founders about how Seafund made a difference. These stories share insights into the kind of partnership we offer.
“Seafund is more of a partner than investor. Always by your side to help you navigate through complex challenges across functions. They not only backed us during early days but also stood by our side during rainy days. We are blessed to be associated with Manoj and Mayuresh”
“For us, Seafund wasn't just an investment. The stage at which they invest, founder’s value the hands-on advice equally or more, than the check. The support and mentorship given to us through experts at Seafund on financial planning and strategy has been of immense value to us while building Genrobotics!”
“Seafund has been one of the first believers in what we were trying to do for brands using technology and productising customer engagement. From the initial few customers, to bigger corporates, in India to begin with, then Asia and finally now in the US they have been a pivotal partner in our journey from Seed to Series A and now we firmly believe, beyond. They are always just a phone call away to help us founders in our transitions and key decision points.”
“Seafund’s support for our idea and all aspects of our business has been unwavering since the first day we met. We got a quick confirmation from them and the investment came in without any hassle. This was unlike other VC stories that we had heard.One crucial aspect for our business was finding an apt NBFC lending partner after our initial lending partner backed out. We got one through Manoj who was able to get a stable and trust worthy lender to back us immediately.Since the first day, Manoj and Mayuresh continue to give critical feedback about our business and market conditions on a frequent basis. It is great to know that our investors at SEA Fund have our back always !!”
“I first met Manoj and Mayuresh at our office when Pupilfirst was still an idea. Girish Mathrubootham had written the first cheque towards building our vision for the future of classroom education.I have a chequered entrepreneurial history with some successes and a bunch of failures and distinctly remember the call where they said they had done their due diligence, have taken feedback from the market and decided to write a check. Ever since, Seafund has been a strong pillar of support, a great team to bounce draft directional ideas and non-intrusive in operational matters.”
"SEA Fund has been a great supporter of BestDoc from the Day One of their investment. Over the years, we have benefitted immensely from their role as a sounding board for strategic decisions. SEA Fund has been unique in terms of ease of accessibility (always available), nimbleness (being able to quickly access situations and suggest relevant actions) and entrepreneur-friendly win-win investor mindset (we are there to support you till you make it big) - these qualities helped me move faster and better without having to worry about 'managing the board'. We are thankful for the multiple introductions that Manoj, Mayuresh and the SEAF team has done for us, be it clients, investors and other enablers in the healthcare ecosystem across India and abroad. I will gladly send any early-stage entrepreneur their way now!"
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We invest at the earliest stages when founders need true partnership