East Sunshine Ventures

East Sunshine Ventures (“ESV”) is a female lead fintech/B2B SaaS, AI focused early stage (seed and pre-seed) venture capital firm based in Silicon Valley. We are aiming to bridge the gap between the early stage investments between the founders’ community and financial institutions. Our team consists of successful unicorn/exited founders and founding team members from Stripe, Ariba Network and Standard Cognition etc.) and previous financial institution executives from HSBC innovation team.

Our Value Add:
• Our expertise and network with global financial institutions will help our portfolio companies scale/exit within the industry and generate significant returns to our LPs.
• Our international perspective and network (GP is a trilingual with working/academic experience in Goldman Sachs, Citi and HSBC in Asia and the US) will help our portfolio companies scale globally from early stage.
• We prioritize female and minority founders to support the community/make returns for LPs as minorities/females historically has better returns.

FUND PERFORMANCE:
• Our fund 1 almost doubled the capital we deployed within a year with IRR of 91% and MOIC of 1.91x.
• Within the 5 investments we made from our fund year 1, 1 company scaled 4.5x and 2 companies scaled 2x in valuation within a year.