Amit Anand and Anurag Srivastava founded Jungle Ventures back in 2012. It only started with a very small debut fund at $10 million dollars. Various fund raising in Europe, USA, Asia and Middle-East got the firm grow big. In 2016, it closed its’ funding in $100 million.

Jungle Ventures’ growth from $10 million to $175 million
This year, the first closed fund for Southeast Asia set at $175 million. And it’s expected to grow up to $220 million in a few months. With the number, the firm would have the largest fund for startup investments in Southeast Asia.
Since 2012, Jungle Ventures has made 61 investments. The latest investment was on March 2019 to Tookitaki, a Singapore-based fintech company. The firm invested $7.5 million on the fintech company.
Previously, it led various funding rounds in Deskera, a cloud platform, with $60 million in its’ latest round. Indonesia’s Kredivo also closed its’ latest funding at $30 million, led by Jungle Ventures. Thailand retailing e-commerce, Pomelo, also raised $30 million that led by the firm.
Although Jungle mainly focuses on startup investments in Asia, the firm occasionally invests in other region also. The companies listed on its portfolio are from around the world. Including Southeast Asia countries, South Asia countries, New Zealand, Australia, and USA.
Jungle Ventures had also recorded four exits. In 2013, HomeAway bought Singapore startup, Travelmob to enter Asia Pacific. Two years later, Twitter acquired ZipDial, for $40 million in India. In the same year, another startup invested by the firm was bought by Rakuten. Voyagin, a Tokyo based tour planning startup is one of the firm exits. The last exit is eBus to IMD.
Jungle’s plan on investing more on digital startups might be just the right thing to do. Because Google and Temasek estimated the industry to grow up to $240 billion in 2025 for Southeast Asia.