Tess Ventures Fellowship
Empowering women-led startups in Southeast Asia through venture capital.
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Overview
Tess Ventures is a boutique venture capital firm based in Menlo Park, California, founded in 2017. The firm focuses on decentralized finance, Web 3.0, blockchain technology, and emerging markets, with a commitment to supporting women-led startups in Southeast Asia. Tess Ventures invests in a variety of sectors including blockchain, AI, fintech, and healthcare, providing mentorship, partnerships, and operational support to its portfolio companies.
Investment focus
Tess Ventures is dedicated to empowering diverse founders, particularly women-led startups in Southeast Asia. The firm focuses on supporting companies through their earliest and highest-risk stages, providing operational support and access to capital to help them scale and succeed in the competitive landscape of decentralized finance and blockchain technology.
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What the sources say about Tess Ventures Fellowship
Tess Ventures' Pitch Yourself form asks for a startup idea and provides a file-upload field.
Source: Pitch YourselfTess Hatch describes Threshold Venture Fellowship as pivotal to her VC career and says she was helping lead its next chapter.
Source: Tess Hatch’s PostStanford STVP describes a twelve-student Threshold Venture Fellows program and lists an October 25, 2026 deadline for the 2027 cohort.
Source: Threshold Venture Fellows | Stanford Technology Ventures Program
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