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MANILA · DUBAI — INVESTING AT 54°48′ S

Building at the edge.

We back founders who go where others don't — frontier markets, unlikely categories, improbable combinations.

EST. 2024 — EARLY STAGE STAGE PRE-SEED · SEED 0+ INVESTMENTS DEPLOYED SCROLL
01 / THESIS

Capital that travels further.

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Edges before centers

The most asymmetric returns come from places and categories that institutional capital hasn't priced yet.

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Bridges as moats

We're drawn to founders who fuse worlds that don't normally touch — media and AI, sports and analytics, commerce and culture.

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Operators first

We're builders investing in builders. Our value isn't capital alone — it's pattern recognition from 20+ years across Asia, the Middle East, and Africa.

02 / FOCUS

Five frontiers we're early to.

01 Media & Content// distribution · IP · attention
02 Sports Technology// performance · analytics · fandom
03 Applied AI// vertical models · agents · tooling
04 B2B Commerce// cross-border · logistics · rails
05 Space Technology// orbit · manufacturing · frontier
03 / PORTFOLIO

Where the capital already travelled.

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COMPANIES BACKED
SPACE

Varda Space

In-orbit manufacturing

Manufacturing in microgravity is a market before the market exists. Edges before centers — taken literally, off-planet.

MARITIME

Regent Craft

Electric seagliders

Aviation, maritime, and electrification — three worlds fused into one craft. Bridges as moats, built for archipelagos like ours.

FOODTECH

Finless Foods

Cultivated seafood

Feeding the world without touching the ocean. A category most capital called too early — which is usually our cue.

APPLIED AI

ICW

AI compliance platform

Compliance is where AI's promise meets regulated reality. Vertical AI with the hardest moat to copy: trust.

EVENTS

MADS Events

Experiential media

Live events across SEA generate culture — and data nobody was capturing. Media, sports, and analytics on one stage.

COMMERCE

Buy & Ship

Cross-border logistics

Commerce rails for the corridors big players ignore. Bridges as moats — in the most literal sense.

WEB3 · CULTURE

MetaTokyo Studio

Culture & IP

Culture and IP travel faster than infrastructure. A bet on Asia's creative exports finding global rails.

CONSUMER

Flower Company

Modern florals

A modern brand in a fragmented, offline category. Unlikely categories are our favorite kind.

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VENTURES IN STEALTH
6 regions
USA · PH · SEA · MENA · AFRICA · SOUTH ASIA
04 / TEAM

Operators, not spectators.

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Ritesh Nandwani

FOUNDER & MANAGING PARTNER

Serial entrepreneur and multi-family office manager with 20+ years across Asia, the Middle East, Africa, Europe, and the US — building, operating, and backing companies at the frontier.

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05 / CONTACT

Building something at the frontier?

We want to hear from founders operating in markets and categories others have overlooked.

ritesh@ushuaiaventures.com