Maple VC

Andre Charoo, the founder and general partner, makes all investment decisions as a sole GP. He founded the firm in 2020 after spending eight years at Uber, where he was one of the first 40 employees and led international launches. There is no investment committee layer — Charoo personally evaluates every deal and writes each check.

Maple VC focuses on pre-seed and seed-stage companies, occasionally participating in Series A rounds for existing portfolio companies. Charoo's model is to enter at the earliest institutional round and reserve capital for follow-ons. The firm does not write growth-stage or late-stage checks.

Charoo sources primarily through his Uber alumni network and the broader global technology operator community he built during his time scaling the company internationally. The firm benefits from inbound deal flow from founders who also transitioned from operating roles. Maple does not employ a traditional outbound sourcing team or rely on banker-led deal introductions.

Maple VC operates a traditional venture capital fund structure, raising committed capital from limited partners to deploy across a portfolio of early-stage companies. The firm has not publicly disclosed fund sizes or LP composition. Charoo has noted publicly that the fund structure was a deliberate step beyond his earlier angel investing practice.

Yes. While the firm is based in San Francisco, Charoo actively invests in Southeast Asia and has evaluated opportunities across other global markets. His experience launching Uber internationally gave him direct exposure to markets including India and the broader Asia-Pacific region, which Maplevc continues to access.

Charoo joined Uber in 2012 as one of the company's earliest employees and was instrumental in its international expansion strategy. He reported to CEO Travis Kalanick and built the global launches team that took Uber into markets worldwide. While still at Uber, he began angel investing, backing fintech and enterprise companies. He left Uber in 2020 to establish Maple VC as an institutional vehicle.

Charoo has not publicly stated sector exclusions, but the firm's portfolio concentrates on enterprise software, fintech, digital health, and applied AI. Hard tech, deep science, and capital-intensive industrial businesses do not appear in known portfolio positions, suggesting a preference for capital-efficient software and marketplace models.