Build Your Venture with Turtle Venture Studio
Turtle Venture Studio is a venture-building investment platform that blends capital with hands-on execution to build strong, scalable startups. Over a structured 20-week program, we focus on three pillars: Product-Market Fit, Scalable MVP, and Investment Readiness. Each startup receives $125,000 in funding, along with strategic support across product, growth, legal, finance, and operations. Our process is guided by clear KPIs, investor-grade metrics, traction milestones, and smart burn-rate management. We work side-by-side with founders, reducing risk while accelerating progress. The outcome is simple: startups that are confident, investment-ready, and built for sustainable growth and long-term value.
Product Market Fit
We help founders validate ideas, test assumptions, and refine offerings through feedback, research, and mentorship, ensuring solutions meet real needs and drive customer loyalty.
Scalable MVP
We help startups build scalable MVPs with efficient architecture, robust tech, and lean operations, ensuring early traction and future growth.
Investment Readiness
We prepare founders for investment with strong pitches, data-driven financial models, and key investor connections.
Why Turtle Venture Studio?
Because Exceptional Founders Deserve More Than Capital
In today’s hyper-competitive innovation landscape, most early-stage startups fail not due to lack of ambition or ideas, but because of execution risk, weak structure, and limited institutional support, especially across emerging markets. Turtle Venture Studio (TVS) was built to solve this problem.
Capital + Execution, Aligned from Day One
Unlike traditional venture capital, TVS combines investment capital with deeply embedded operational support, ensuring founders are never left alone to navigate critical early-stage decisions.
Co-Creation as a Core Philosophy
Every strategy at TVS is co-authored with founders, grounded in data, execution discipline, and shared ambition.
Embedded Operational Expertise
Dedicated studio specialists work inside portfolio companies across product, growth, finance, legal, and fundraising, driving real progress, not just recommendations.
Disciplined Capital Deployment
Capital is deployed in structured tranches tied to execution milestones, promoting efficiency, extended runway, and investor readiness.
Founder Development as a Strategic Investment
We invest in founders through leadership coaching, peer learning, and decision-making simulations, supporting the transition from builder to high-performance CEO.
Built for Emerging Markets. Designed for Scale.
TVS focuses on high-growth, undercapitalized markets across South and Southeast Asia, where digital adoption, demographic tailwinds, and structural gaps create outsized opportunity.
Turtle Venture Studio Fund I (TVS Fund I) is a $5.25M venture studio-backed fund designed to co-build and scale early-stage startups. Structured as a Permanent Capital Vehicle (PCV), this evergreen fund domiciled in Singapore provides long-term, flexible capital alongside hands-on operational support, turning bold ideas into scalable, fundable, and resilient companies.
- Dual Entity Model (Fund + Studio)
- Permanent Capital Vehicle Structure
- No Management Fee, No Carry
- Minimum ticket size: $25,000
Turtle Venture invests in early-stage startups through our Venture Studio program across South and Southeast Asia, targeting high-growth sectors such as Agriculture, Finance, Education, E-commerce & Logistics, Health, and ESG. The fund seeks to provide both capital and strategic support to startups addressing fundamental societal and economic problems, with a strong emphasis on sustainable business models and diverse founding teams.
The fund is uniquely positioned to capture opportunities in some of the world’s fastest-growing and most under-invested markets, leveraging Turtle Venture Studio’s dual-entity model that combines operational acceleration with financial backing.
By leveraging the Permanent Capital Vehicle (PCV) structure, the fund offers long-term capital without the typical constraints of management fees and carry, ensuring cost efficiency and maximizing returns.
FinTech
Global: $179 Bn+
SEA: $15 Bn+
Total Fintech Market Size (2023)
AgriTech
Global : $18 Tn+
SEA: $650 Bn+
Total value of agro production & processing (2021)
Healthcare
Global: $9 Tn+
SEA: $740 Bn+
Total Healthcare Market
Size (2021)
ESG/Climate
Global: $10 Tn+
SEA: $300 Bn+
Total ESG Asset Under Management (2022)
Transport & Logistics
Global: $12 Tn+
SEA: $400 Bn+
Total Transport & Logistics
Market Size (2023)
E-commerce
Global: $6 Tn+
SEA: $230 Bn+
Total E-commerce Market Size (2022)
Turtle Venture Studio’s Portfolios
Why Join Turtle Venture Studio Fund I ?
We Build with You, Not for You
Your idea is only the beginning. Turtle Venture embeds deeply into your company, across strategy, product, growth, finance, and fundraising. So, every decision is co-created; every risk is mitigated, and every milestone is intentional.
Execution Is Our Advantage
Ideas fail without execution. We provide hands-on, studio-driven support that transforms your vision into a measurable, repeatable growth engine. From MVP to product market fit, we reduce friction and accelerate results.
Scale Beyond Boundaries
We equip founders to build companies that can scale globally while solving real problems in emerging markets. With disciplined governance, capital efficiency, and investor-ready foundations, you don’t just grow; you endure.
Build Companies That Can Win Anywhere
We help you design ventures that thrive locally and scale globally. Through operational rigor, governance, and global best practices, your startup is positioned to capture emerging market opportunities while being fundable and resilient anywhere in the world.
Full-Stack Support That Leaves Nothing to Chance
From legal compliance, IP protection, and governance frameworks to revenue operations, growth systems, and investor-ready decks, TVS provides every resource a high-potential startup could need, reducing risk and unlocking maximum potential.
Access a Network That Multiplies Impact
Joining TVS Fund I is not just about funding or mentorship, it’s about being plugged into a curated ecosystem of founders, operators, industry experts, and global investors. Every connection is intentional, every collaboration designed to accelerate growth, open new markets, and amplify your impact. With TVS, you’re never building in isolation,you’re building with an entire network that scales with you.
A Studio That Creates, Not Just Funds
Turtle Venture Studio Fund I is not a passive fund. Our dual-entity model combines capital with operational muscle, meaning we shape companies from inception, creating value before most funds even write a check.
Risk-Managed, Execution-Driven Returns
Through embedded operational involvement, milestone-aligned capital deployment, and founder co-creation, we de-risk early-stage ventures while unlocking scalable, investable growth.
Long-Term Vision, Emerging Market Edge
Structured as a permanent capital vehicle, TVS captures durable opportunities in high-growth South and Southeast Asia markets, aligning founder ambition with investors’ interest for sustainable, measurable impact.
Transparency, Governance, and Control
Investors receive real-time insights, dashboards, and structured updates, ensuring full visibility into portfolio performance, milestones, and operational decisions, so capital is never blind.
A Pipeline of Investable, Curated Opportunities
Through our networks of top operators, mentors, and founders, TVS continuously identifies and nurtures the highest potential startups, giving investors repeatable access to quality deal flow.
Value Creation Beyond Capital
We embed long-term discipline into every venture’s governance, financial hygiene, growth playbooks, and founder development, so investors benefit from companies that are structurally stronger, scalable, and globally investable, maximizing risk-adjusted returns.
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Our specialized ecosystem enables you to receive early insights into the startups. Be a first mover to invest in the best tech startups that are creating the future of finance at an early stage.
When our startups succeed, we succeed.
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