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Cathy Guo

Backing exceptional founders

Singapore

Invests in

Stages:

Locations:

  • Min Investment:

    $100,000.00
  • Max Investment:

    $5,000,000.00
  • Target Investment:

    $1,500,000.00

Work Experience

2023

  • Principal

    2023

    Growing the GDP of SEA by backing extraordinary entrepreneurs. Write to me at cathy@iterative.vc.

2022 - 2023

  • Experimenting, Tinkering

    2022 - 2023

    Worked on a bunch of ideas, scrapped for various reasons (market, team, passion for idea): (1) Pre-financing platform for carbon projects - beta launched (2) Biochar for nature-based carbon removal - market research (3) Retrofitting residential and industrial equipment w/pollution and carbon capture devices - early sales for residential product, grant and engineering design for industrial

2020 - 2022

  • Head of Portfolio

    2020 - 2022

    • World's fastest growing VC firm, India fund led by Rajiv Srivatsa (ex-Urban Ladder cofounder) and Nitin Sharma (ex-First Principles, Lightbox, NEA) • Led the Portfolio function - supported 20+ portfolio companies in strategy, product, hiring, GTM and fundraising • Select investments and DD in pre-seed companies, e.g. Apnibus, IndiaP2P, Bookee

2019 - 2020

  • VC

    2019 - 2020

    • Thematic early-stage micro-VC led by Nitin Sharma • Led due diligence and investments in companies such as Kutumb, Loco, Clinikk, Scalenut, Karmalife • $720mn+ total portfolio value

2017 - 2019

  • Co-Founder, CEO

    2017 - 2019

    • Building dev + infra tools for dApp developers • Raised $1.5m, hired an amazing team of 15+ and (mostly) got out of their way