04 Our story
Type Capital started in 2014 at a borrowed kitchen table, with one cheque and a rule that founders should be able to reach us on a Sunday.
Since 2014 Three things we still believe
01
If it needs a second page, something on the first one is wrong.
02
So we fund patience: smaller rounds, longer runways, fewer slides.
03
Every partner’s phone number is in the founder’s first email. It still is.
A ledger Twelve years, typed
The short version.
A kitchen table in Richmond, one company, one cheque.
The first partner hire. The memo template he wrote is still in use.
Our first lead on a Series B, in the Maldives, during the wrong season.
Two hundred speakers from a garage. We led the seed and the A.
A sketch, a motor and a tortoise shell. Nobody else returned the email.
Sixty-four companies, two exits, one typewriter.
How we work What to expect
First meeting to first cheque in four weeks.
Week 1
You draw the product in four minutes, no slides. We ask the dumb questions.
Week 2
We read everything, call customers and send you our notes before we decide.
Week 4
A term sheet that fits on one page, and a partner’s phone number at the bottom.
Founder FAQ Before you pitch
Good questions.
Pre-seed to Series B, with first cheques from US$250k to US$5M. We like being first and we like following on.
Hardware, robotics, climate, software, consumer and fintech, across Asia Pacific. If it has a shape on a whiteboard, we will look.
Email a partner or use the form. Two paragraphs and a link beat a forty-slide deck. We reply within a week, every time.
Yes. About half of our investments are leads, and we take a board seat when we do.
Exactly that. Price, size, board, pro-rata and a phone number. If you need a lawyer to read it, we have written it wrong.
© 2026 Type Capital. A fictional firm, made for the template.