Locus Ventures
VC Fund
Palo Alto, United States
Locus Ventures is a seed fund that invests in passionate founders looking to build important, world-changing companies. Its partnership is unique in its wealth of startup founding and operating experience in both Silicon Valley and Asia. It works closely with founders in their portfolio and offers guidance on product design and development,customer acquisition, team-building, and fundraising.Since 2016, its portfolio companies have raised over $300 million in follow-on funding from first-tier VC like Sequoia Capital, Foundation Capital, Khosla Ventures, Founders Fund, NEA, CRV, DST Partners and Naspers, with an aggregate market cap over $2 billion.Locus Ventures was founded in 2016 by Google, Facebook, and Y Combinator alums.
- Total investments:
- 35
- Last investment:
- Lead investor:
- 0%
- Last fund:
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Industries Locus Ventures invests in
Stages Locus Ventures invests in
Countries Locus Ventures invests in
Round sizes
Contacts
| Name | Phone | Socials | |
|---|---|---|---|
Round size
- Seed
- $150k–$7M
- Pre-Seed
- $913k–$3.4M
Investment Focus
Industry
- Artificial Intelligence 10 (29%)
- FinTech 7 (20%)
- Software 7 (20%)
- E-Commerce 5 (14%)
- Mobile Apps 5 (14%)
Stage
- Seed 27 (77%)
- Pre-Seed 4 (11%)
- Series A 1 (3%)
Country
- United States 19 (54%)
- India 6 (17%)
- Singapore 3 (9%)
- Indonesia 2 (6%)
- China 1 (3%)
Team
| Name | Title | Investments | Links | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
Eric Kwan
Co-Founder & Managing Partner
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Co-Founder & Managing Partner | Total investments: 58 | Find email | |
Perry Tam
Founder and Managing Partner
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Founder and Managing Partner | Total investments: 2 | Find email | |
Tommy Tsai
Founder & Managing Partner
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Founder & Managing Partner | Total investments: 1 | Find email | |
William Chan
Co-Founder
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Co-Founder | Total investments: 0 | Find email |
Investments
| Company | Description | Round | Links |
|---|---|---|---|
| ShoprTV is Twitch for selling things, where anyone (creators, brands, influencers) can broadcast, build an audience and sell things over live-streams. ShoprTV exists at a unique intersection of Live-commerce, creator economy and social commerce. | $1.8M / Seed / Oct 18, 2022 | ||
| Botsync builds autonomous mobile robots to automate and digitize movement of goods from point to point for the logistics and manufacturing industry. Our robots can carry payloads from 500 kg to 1 tonne and are designed to operate in dynamic environments. Botsync's AMRs can be implemented at new facilities in minimal time with very minimalchanges to the existing infrastructure. With our technology, we hope to pioneer and push for larger scale adoptions of robotic automation in Asia's logistics and manufacturing industry. | Seed / Jul 20, 2022 | ||
| Swipe is a billing and payments solution for small and medium-sized businesses. Swipe helps in generating instant GST billings, filing returns, tracking sales, and managing inventory. The company was founded in 2021 and is headquartered in Hyderabad, Andhra Pradesh, India. | $2M / Seed / Feb 11, 2022 | ||
| Springdel delivers advanced Android and IoT device management designed for frontline operations at scale. Its EdgeOps platform enables organizations to control and secure thousands of mission-critical devices in real time, even without constant network access. With features like system-level kiosk mode, offline geofencing, remote control, andmulti-tenancy, Springdel ensures stable and autonomous device performance. The company was founded by MDM experts to solve the challenges that traditional UEM solutions cannot handle at scale. | $2M / Seed / Jan 29, 2022 | ||
| Cockpit is an AI-native workspace for growth teams.Every email, document, outreach, and meeting follow-up sent through Cockpit is hyper-personalized based on the audience. Growth teams today waste hours crafting individual emails, proposals, and follow-ups. They copy-paste templates, manually research prospects, and still send generic content that doesn't convert. Cockpit auto-personalizes every touchpoint based on recipient context—company, role, recent news, past interactions—while maintaining brand consistency across all communications. Every workflow is trained on best practices from state-of-the-art AI models—so your team executes like top performers, every time. The result: Revenue booked on autopilot. | $3.4M / Pre-Seed / Dec 30, 2021 | ||
Kriya AI is now Kalendar AI
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Kalendar AI books new revenue on autopilot | $913K / Pre-Seed / Sep 30, 2021 | |
| Zingbus is an emerging brand in the intercity bus services. We aim to provide a safe and reliable travel experience to the community which include well-equipped buses with modern facilities keeping in mind all the safety essentials. | $6M / Seed / Jul 27, 2021 | ||
| FlutterFlow, founded in 2020, is a ground breaking low-code, visual development platform designed to simplify the creation of native mobile and web applications. With over 400,000 users and thousands of apps deployed to app stores, FlutterFlow empowers product teams to create stunning UIs and generate clean code with ease. The platform'sone-click deployment feature accelerates launch timelines, while remaining fully extensible with custom code. Millions of end users are served through FlutterFlow-built apps. This cutting-edge platform streamlines application development and enables businesses to scale rapidly and efficiently.https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NimXzr4LYWE | $2.5M / Seed / Mar 24, 2021 | ||
| Decentro develops an API banking software platform designed to launch products in a hassle free way. The platform integrates with desired banking APIs permitting financial integrations with a few lines of code and claims to simplify the product development cycle, enabling clients to simplify the integration processes. | Seed / Feb 11, 2021 | ||
| BukuKas is a tech startup that provides a digital ledger app designed to assist micro and small businesses in their cash management. It helps Indonesian MSMEs understand and manage their financial flows more effectively with easy-to-use digital bookkeeping that traders can download through their smartphones. Its app digitized the physicalrecord-keeping books by enabling micro and small enterprises to record their sales, expense, and cash transactions at ease using their smart phone. The free app helps micro and small business owners to simplify cash management and help them grow their profits faster.The company was founded in 2019 and is headquartered in Jakarta, Indonesia. | $9M / Seed / Aug 18, 2020 | ||
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FAQ
What does Locus Ventures invest in?
Locus Ventures invests primarily in Artificial Intelligence, FinTech and Software startups, most often at Seed and Pre-Seed stage. Most of the 35 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 Locus Ventures invest in?
Locus Ventures typically joins rounds of $150k–$7M at Seed and $913k–$3.4M at Pre-Seed. These are whole funding-round sizes, not Locus Ventures's own check, which is rarely disclosed: the 10th–90th percentile of the confirmed public funding rounds Locus Ventures took part in.
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Who are the partners at Locus Ventures?
The team at Locus Ventures includes Eric Kwan (Co-Founder & Managing Partner), Perry Tam (Founder and Managing Partner) and Tommy Tsai (Founder & Managing Partner). 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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