# RC Ventures

> RC Ventures is a VC fund in Dhaka backing Logistics, E-Commerce and Software. See 10 investments, check sizes, portfolio. Updated Aug 2026.

- Type: VC Fund
- Location: Dhaka, Bangladesh
- Total investments: 10
- Last investment: Jan 2025
- Lead investor: 40%
- Last updated: Aug 2026
- Website: http://rc.ventures/

RC Ventures is a seed and venture capital firm that invests in early stage companies in Bangladesh and neighboring high growth emerging markets. Our team consists of frontier investors, entrepreneurs, and corporate advisors with deep experience and personal ties in our target markets.

## Round sizes

| Stage | Round size |
| --- | --- |
| Seed | $825k–$6M |

## Investment focus

### Industry

| Industry | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Logistics | 3 | 30% |
| E-Commerce | 3 | 30% |
| Software | 2 | 20% |
| FinTech | 1 | 10% |
| Payments | 1 | 10% |

17 industries tracked in total.

### Stage

| Stage | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Seed | 5 | 50% |
| Pre-Seed | 3 | 30% |
| Debt Financing | 1 | 10% |

### Country

| Country | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Bangladesh | 3 | 30% |
| United States | 3 | 30% |
| Kenya | 1 | 10% |
| Mexico | 1 | 10% |

## Investments

| Company | Description | Amount | Stage | Date | Website |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| Drivana | Drivana is peer-to-peer car rental platform that connects local car owners with people looking to rent one | $1M | Seed | Jan 28, 2025 |  |
| Container Deposit Fund | CDF provides fast, reliable, and affordable short-term financing for African logistics operators. We launched in mid-2021 with our first product, which targets the over $1B in container deposits paid by Freight Forwarders in East Africa every year. Our solution reduces the container deposit cost by 90%, enabling our customers to do ten times morebusiness with the same amount of capital. |  | Debt Financing | May 07, 2024 |  |
| Drivana | Drivana is peer-to-peer car rental platform that connects local car owners with people looking to rent one |  | Seed | Oct 18, 2023 |  |
| Ampd | Ampd's enterprise Adtech platform is transforming how brand and commerce teams optimize media for the modern shopper journey. With agentic routing, closed-loop attribution, and commerce optimization, Ampd empowers fragmented teams to align and drive share growth at retail. |  | Seed | Apr 18, 2023 |  |
| Basis Climate | Basis Climate operates as a marketplace for clean energy tax credits. It provides a platform for corporations to purchase and for developers to sell these credits. The company's services include a streamlined diligence and appraisal platform, making the process of buying and selling clean energy tax credits more efficient. Basis Climate alsooffers a digital exchange, allowing transactions to take place online. The company's goal is to reduce tax liability and accelerate the energy transition, putting balance sheets to work for a cleaner environment. |  | Pre-Seed | Jan 31, 2023 |  |
| Drivana | Drivana is peer-to-peer car rental platform that connects local car owners with people looking to rent one |  | Pre-Seed | Oct 01, 2022 |  |
| Vest | Vest is an app-based brokerage that wants to provide Latin American savers with access to American assets that are differentiated by product, pricing, and content. Latin Americans are known for saving, but many prefer to do so in cash or in zero-interest savings accounts. | $6M | Seed | Jan 26, 2022 |  |
| Pathao | Pathao is a digital platform for entrepreneurs, based out of Dhaka, with a vision of Moving Bangladesh forward. It is the market leader in 2W/4W ride-sharing, food delivery, e-commerce and e-com fulfilment in Bangladesh and Nepal. | $825K | Seed | Nov 01, 2016 |  |
| KajKey | KajKey in Bangla means "What Work?". KajKey is an online freelancing platform focused on Bangla speaking clients, employers, freelancers, and job seekers. Bangla is the 7th most spoken language in the world and the KajKey platform connects Bengali clients with freelancers that speak their language, understand their needs, can operate on alocalized budget, and receive payment with local payment solutions. In countries like Bangladesh where employment is heavily concentrated in the capital city, KajKey provides opportunity to millions in villages where unemployment is high and migrating to the city is prohibitively expensive. |  | Seed |  |  |
| Truck Lagbe | Truck Lagbe is Bangladesh's shipping and freight booking and logistics platform. Shippers can book short-haul and long-haul trips from vehicles ranging from 1 ton up to 25 tons in size. The app is available on Android and iOS. | $250K | Pre-Seed |  |  |

10 of 10 investments shown.

## Co-investors
- [Movtech Capital](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/movtech-capital) — VC Fund, 2 deals together
- [ArkAngeles](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/ark-s-a-p-i-de-c-v) — VC Fund, 1 deal together
- [Battery Road Digital Holdings](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/battery-road-digital-holdings) — VC Fund, 1 deal together
- [Class 5 Global](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/class-5-global) — VC Fund, 1 deal together
- [FERTER](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/ferter) — VC Fund, 1 deal together
- [FJ Labs](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/fj-labs) — VC Fund, 1 deal together

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## FAQ

### What does RC Ventures invest in?

RC Ventures invests primarily in Logistics, E-Commerce and Software startups, most often at Seed and Pre-Seed stage. Most of the 10 investments tracked by Shizune back companies in Bangladesh. The Investment Focus section breaks down every industry, stage and country in the portfolio.

### What is RC Ventures's check size?

RC Ventures typically joins rounds of $825k–$6M at Seed. These ranges are 10th–90th percentile round sizes calculated from confirmed public funding rounds, so they are a realistic guide to the rounds RC Ventures participates in.

### When did RC Ventures last invest?

The most recent investment recorded for RC Ventures closed in Jan 2025. Shizune tracks 10 investments in total for this profile, including round sizes, stages and portfolio companies, all sourced from confirmed public funding rounds and refreshed monthly.

### 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 Aug 2026 and is updated monthly. Spotted something off? Use the “Suggest an edit” link near the top of the page.

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