Decacorn is the buzzword of the start-up world.
Coined by Bloomberg in 2015, Decacorn refers to the new breed of start-ups that are worth US$10 billion or more in the private (unlisted) market.
In late 2013, only Facebook was in this category, but as of today Ant Financial, ByteDance (TikTok), SpaceX, Stripe, Epic Games, and a dozen others have made it to that list, while some early entrants have headed out from there for their IPO.
Tech startups worth US$1 billion are often referred to as Unicorns. Today, there are more than 400 of them around and fast increasing, creating wealth for their founders, early employees and investors like never before.
Unicorns and Decacorns might be imaginary, but this new generation of disruptive technology start-ups with rapid innovation cycle led adoption curves is not a myth, but a reality – the new normal - changing for good the way we live, work, and play on this planet.
Our Story
Decacorn Capital is a cross-border venture funding initiative, centred around start-ups that use technology innovatively to create a defensible moat, led by high-caliber, resourceful founders who are out there with the mission to either create a true delight or solve a real problem.
Our journey in this exciting world of start-ups is often on roads seldom traveled. In these lonely roads, we love to co-invest with bell-weather investors, pioneers and others, in high-impact startups disrupting large market opportunities, either existing or newly enabled, with the aim to make our planet shades better than what we inherited from our parents.
Differentiator
At Decacorn Capital, we seek to curate startups that are tech defensible, have a clear path to monetization and have crossed an “inflection point”.
We invest in rare gems, mostly original or early mover ideas, that have the potential to become not just unicorns/decacorns but the next tech mega-caps thus generating “superior alpha”.
Our endeavor is to connect the underserved consumers with pioneering, deep-tech disruptive innovations wherever they may be - “The World is our Oyster”.
As a consequence, we have investments spread across all the continents, stitching together a “string of pearls”.
Seek to “democratizing” private tech investment in top quartile start-ups for non-institutional accredited investors.
Approach
Curating startups with rapid innovation cycles and large adoption curves, across 6 technology platforms:
- AI & Big Data
- Cloud & Edge
- Blockchain
- Space Tech
- Robotics & Automation
- Genomics
We adopt a bar-belled approach of investing in Early stage (Seed/Series A) start-ups with large multiplier effects, as well as in Growth-stage (Series B and beyond) start-ups offering instant gratification and a big margin of safety.
Following a stage-by-stage investing model, our initial bite size is between US$300-600k, with US$100k-1M being the outliers, going up all the way to US$3M across two or more follow-on funding rounds.