Dtribe Capital

Dtribe Capital

Dtribe Capital was established in 2021 by Michele Ferrario, Raffaele Terrone, and Alessandro Riccobono, three Italian-born operators who previously served as C-suite executives at Singapore-based digital wealth manager StashAway. Ferrario was StashAway's co-founder and CEO, Terrone led product, and Riccobono served as CFO. The trio launched Dtribe with the thesis that venture capital in Southeast Asia demands more than capital allocation — it requires the operational intervention and company-building muscle they developed while scaling StashAway across five markets. The firm's name signals an explicit focus on curated community and operating principles as differentiators from regional peers. The firm writes early-stage cheques, primarily from Seed through Series B, across a generalist mandate with apparent concentration in enterprise technology and digital infrastructure. Its website indicates commitments to FinTech, PropTech, Digital Health, ClimateTech, AgriTech, and Mobility. Rather than spray capital across dozens of names, Dtribe structures its book around a concentrated portfolio where each position receives significant internal resourcing. While Dtribe does not publicly disclose its fund size or deployment figures, filings and regional deal-flow reporting indicate a Southeast Asia-centric strategy with Singapore as the anchor jurisdiction. The firm's model makes direct equity investments and does not operate as a fund-of-funds. The founding trio runs the investment committee collectively, drawing on an extended network of StashAway alumni and Singapore's tightly-knit fintech ecosystem. In July 2022, Dtribe participated in the $5 million Series A raise of Koomi, a Philippine farm-to-table platform, alongside Nextblue Ventures and IXL Innovation (per e27, 2022). The firm's activities point to a selective cadence: it prioritizes founder relationships cultivated through shared operating history rather than institutional auction processes, suggesting a deal-flow model grounded in operator network effects, not spray-and-pray outreach. Dtribe Capital's structural differentiator is not its asset-class mandate but its operator-to-investor pedigree — the founding team built, raised, and scaled a venture-backed fintech across Asia-Pacific before launching a fund. This reversal of the typical path from finance to tech gives the firm an unusually clinical view of founder pain points, unit economics, and regional regulatory terrain. With all named principals located in Singapore, Dtribe's governance and decision-making remain tightly centralized, a posture that stands apart from regionally distributed GP models proliferating in Southeast Asia.