DST Global
VC Fund
Hong Kong, Hong Kong
DST Global is an investment firm that focuses on providing capital to late-stage internet and technology companies. The company identifies and evaluates growth opportunities in private markets and deploys capital through venture and private equity investments in established digital businesses. It engages with founders and management teams to support company development ahead of liquidity events. DST Global conducts due diligence and structures investments without soliciting retail investors. The firm maintains a portfolio that spans multiple sectors within the internet economy and manages capital on behalf of institutional investors.
- Total investments:
- 351
- Last investment:
- Lead investor:
- 37%
- Last fund:
Last updated:
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Industries DST Global invests in
Stages DST Global invests in
Countries DST Global invests in
Round sizes
Contacts
| Name | Phone | Socials | |
|---|---|---|---|
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Round size
- Series A
- $10M–$76M
- Series B
- $20M–$180M
- Series C
- $35M–$450M
Investment Focus
Industry
- FinTech 50 (14%)
- E-Commerce 48 (14%)
- Financial Services 45 (13%)
- Software 39 (11%)
- Artificial Intelligence 37 (11%)
Stage
- Series A 57 (16%)
- Series B 57 (16%)
- Series C 54 (15%)
- Series D 46 (13%)
- Series E 33 (9%)
Country
- United States 82 (23%)
- China 22 (6%)
- India 17 (5%)
- France 14 (4%)
- United Kingdom 12 (3%)
Team
| Name | Title | Investments | Links | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
John Lindfors
Co-Founder
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Co-Founder | Total investments: 18 | Find email | |
Kriti Bansal
Investor
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Investor | Total investments: 2 | Find email | |
Rahul Mehta
Co-Founder
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Co-Founder | Total investments: 65 | Find email | |
Saurabh Gupta
Co-Founder & Managing Partner
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Co-Founder & Managing Partner | Total investments: 59 | Find email | |
Tom Stafford
Co-Founder
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Co-Founder | Total investments: 75 | Find email | |
| See all 9 team members → | ||||
Investments
| Company | Description | Round | Links |
|---|---|---|---|
| Sabi is a neurotechnology startup developing a wearable, non-invasive brain-computer interface (BCI) designed to translate internal human speech directly into digital text. | $50M / Seed / Oct 09, 2026 | ||
| Navra is a bridge between traditional finance and the blockchain economy, built on railroads that have already moved billions. | $19M / Series A / Oct 06, 2026 | ||
| Clay provides a platform for go-to-market teams to use unique data and AI. The platform offers access to over 100 data providers for contact information, firmographics, and other data points. It also includes an AI research agent to automate manual research and create flexible workflows. | $115M / Series D / Sep 09, 2026 | ||
| Cognition develops artificial intelligence systems for software engineering and code automation. The company operates Devin, an AI software engineer that plans, writes, tests, debugs, and deploys code through integrated development workflows. Its platform works with existing development tools and codebases to support engineering tasks acrossapplication development, maintenance, and issue resolution. Cognition also provides tools that assist teams with system design, technical workflows, and collaborative coding processes. The company focuses on AI agents that automate repetitive engineering work while supporting software teams in managing complex development tasks. | $2B / Series E / Sep 08, 2026 | ||
| Mistral AI develops artificial intelligence models, applications, and infrastructure for organizations and developers. Its product portfolio includes Vibe for autonomous work and coding, Studio for building and deploying AI applications, Forge for training and customizing models, and Compute for AI training and inference infrastructure. The company also provides frontier models, APIs, model customization, document intelligence, speech solutions, and applied AI services for business and public-sector use cases. Its deployment options include self-hosted environments, Mistral-hosted services, and integrations through cloud providers. Mistral AI supports applications such as enterprise knowledge search, data analysis, document synthesis, coding, agent orchestration, model evaluation, and domain-specific AI development. | $3.5B / Series D / Sep 08, 2026 | ||
| Conveo uses AI to conduct and analyze hundreds of in-depth voice interviews, providing unparalleled customer understanding, instantly. | $50M / Series A / Sep 02, 2026 | ||
| Partly develops digital infrastructure for the automotive parts industry, providing software, APIs, and AI models that support parts identification, procurement, and supply chain operations. Its platform standardizes communication and data exchange among participants in the parts ecosystem, helping businesses integrate parts information into theirexisting systems and workflows. The company offers both developer tools and pre-built applications that can be embedded into enterprise platforms or deployed as standalone solutions. Its products are used by automotive groups, repair businesses, dismantlers, and other organizations to manage inventory, pricing, ordering, and cataloging processes. Partly also develops industry-specific AI models designed to improve the accuracy and efficiency of parts-related operations. | $50M / Series B / Jun 23, 2026 | ||
| Tsuga is a platform that enables enterprise-grade observability, such as log management, application performance monitoring, infrastructure analytics, and sensitive data scanning, while paying close attention to compliance and cost controls. | $35M / Series A / Jun 22, 2026 | ||
| Ineffable Intelligence develops machine learning systems that learn through interaction and experience. The company works on reinforcement learning approaches that allow models to improve by trial and error rather than relying on large human-generated datasets. Its core work centers on building a “superlearner,” a system designed to generateknowledge and skills by engaging with simulated or real environments.The organization develops algorithms and computational frameworks that support autonomous learning, experimentation, and decision-making processes. Its efforts involve designing AI models that can adapt, refine behavior, and solve complex problems through continuous feedback loops. The company’s research aims to expand how AI systems acquire knowledge and apply it across different domains. | $1.1B / Seed / Apr 27, 2026 | ||
Prometheus
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Project Prometheus develops AI tools designed to learn from and interact with the physical world, rather than just process digital data. Its product efforts target engineering and manufacturing in aerospace, automotive, and computing sectors, using AI to optimize design, production, and performance. | $10B / Venture - Series Unknown / Apr 23, 2026 | |
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FAQ
What does DST Global invest in?
DST Global invests primarily in FinTech, E-Commerce and Financial Services startups, most often at Series A and Series B stage. Most of the 351 investments tracked by Shizune back companies in United States. The Investment Focus section breaks down every industry, stage and country in the portfolio.
What round sizes does DST Global invest in?
DST Global typically joins rounds of $10M–$76M at Series A, $20M–$180M at Series B and $35M–$450M at Series C. These are whole funding-round sizes, not DST Global's own check, which is rarely disclosed: the 10th–90th percentile of the confirmed public funding rounds DST Global took part in.
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Who are the partners at DST Global?
The team at DST Global includes John Lindfors (Co-Founder), Kriti Bansal (Investor) and Rahul Mehta (Co-Founder), among 9 team members tracked by Shizune. The Team section lists each member with their title, investment count and links.
Is Shizune's investor data accurate?
Yes — every stat on this profile is calculated from confirmed public funding rounds monitored across hundreds of sources since 2020. This profile was last refreshed in Oct 2026 and is updated monthly. Spotted something off? Use the “Suggest an edit” link near the top of the page.
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