Q&A: Jungle Ventures’ Amit Anand
Singapore’s Jungle Ventures has closed its fourth early-stage tech fund on USD 600m, shattering an initial target of USD 350m. Amit Anand, a founding partner at the firm, unpacks the achievement
Q: How do you explain the jump in fund size? A: This surprised us. There was significantly more capital and interested LPs we had to say no to. Even today, we keep getting pinged about it. There’s...
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