Hatcher+

Co-founders John Sharp and John Tan share managing partner authority, with investment decisions run through an internal committee that includes sector specialists on the firm's deal team. The H2 AI platform generates a quantitative scoring layer, but final approval for any investment rests with human partners (public record).

The firm sources through a combination of the H2 engine, which scans global startup ecosystems using public and proprietary data feeds, and a distributed network of angel investors and family offices that co-invest through syndicates. Hatcher+ also maintains partnerships with accelerators and university spinout programs, especially across Southeast Asia and Europe.

It operates as both. The firm runs rolling fund vehicles that continuously raise and deploy capital, and simultaneously operates a syndicate model that allows external investors to participate in individual deals on an opt-in basis. This dual structure avoids the fixed deployment timelines of traditional closed-end venture funds.

Hatcher+ focuses primarily on seed and early-stage rounds, often as a first institutional check. The firm selectively follows on into later-stage rounds for portfolio companies that demonstrate product-market fit and revenue traction across its core sectors, including enterprise software, fintech, and AI/ML.

H2 is a proprietary AI-powered venture analysis system developed by Hatcher+ to screen and rank early-stage investment opportunities. The firm licenses H2 to other venture firms and government agencies as a SaaS product, creating a separate revenue stream that operates independently from the investment funds — a hybrid model uncommon in venture capital.

Hatcher+ makes direct equity investments into startups across Singapore, the US, the UK, and other jurisdictions using local holding structures when required. Currency exposure is managed at the deal level, with capital typically deployed in the same currency as the target entity's primary operating jurisdiction.

The firm does not publicly publish an exclusion list, but its portfolio concentration in software, AI, fintech, digital health, and agritech suggests limited activity in capital-intensive sectors such as heavy industry, traditional energy extraction, or pure hardware plays requiring significant manufacturing infrastructure.