How Titanium Birch invests with founders
We back founders building globally relevant companies. We’re selective, hands-on, and most effective when we know you well and work together over a long stretch of time.
Who this is for
✅ Founders building globally relevant businesses
✅ Teams who value high trust and direct communication
✅ Builders who want a responsive, operator-driven partner they can pull in when needed
Who this is not for
❌ Founders looking for passive capital
Criteria
We’re keen to speak with founders who meet the following criteria. We’re still early in our direct-investing journey, so these criteria are relatively tight. We imagine broadening them over time, but here’s the current set.
Location of the founders
Significant time in either Singapore or Hong Kong. We’d like to spend time with you in person both before and after investment. We also don’t want to have to travel far; ideally, you already frequently spend time in HK or SG.
Check size and round size
We’d like to write checks from $100k to $500k (USD). We also want to be active participants in a round. We’re even okay to be the only investor in a round. So the total round size should be between $100k and $5M.
Your willingness to trust us
We’ll expect you to trust us with data as though we were a member of the board, even when we’re not on the board. Our exact expectations for information rights will vary depending on the situation, but we’ll definitely have some, starting with financial statements.
Industry
We’re interested in almost any industry as long as the business has a clear path to being global.
Commitment from the founders
You should already be working full-time on your business. No major conflicts of interest, such as side-gigs.
Product maturity
We’d like to see a product that’s far enough along to prove your ability to execute. It’s okay if there are no revenues yet.
Paths to exit
We’re open to two major paths:
The typical VC route, where you have an explicit strategy to go IPO or sell.
Unlike other investors who have to return capital to LPs in predefined timelines, we’re also open to holding investments indefinitely and getting our returns through dividends. In such cases, we’d think of ourselves as your long-term business partners, much more than just investors, and would expect to work even more closely with you. For example, we’d expect access to your general ledger and some control rights.
Corporate governance
Sooner or later, all of our investments need to have mature governance that protects our interests.
If you’re on a VC route: we’re open to investing without a board seat and control rights — only if there’s a clear plan to get that from other professional investors soon.
If you’re not certain you’ll take the VC route: we’ll set up that governance together with you as your business partners.
Use of capital
Primaries only. No secondaries, no SPVs.
Your connection with our firm
For now, we expect to have at least one shared connection with you already, and we’re only open to deals where someone can introduce you to us. We’d love to be even more open, but for now, we don’t have the capacity to handle inbound deals without this pre-qualifier. If you’re in SG or HK, it’s very likely that we already have a shared connection.
How we support founders
We’re operators at heart, and we enjoy working directly with entrepreneurs.
We won’t push our advice onto you. Instead, we imagine a pull-based relationship.
You reach out when you need help.
You can ask us about anything you like, though here are some examples of what might be on the menu:
🧭 Founder coaching with Peter
👤 Hiring referrals and interviews
🧑💻 Organisational design (business + people + tech)
📊 Data engineering
🌱 Brand strategy
📈 Customer acquisition
⚙️ Finance operations
💻 IT infrastructure
💰 Fundraising
Think we’re a fit?
Ask someone in our network to introduce you. We’d love to chat!