YouWeCan Ventures

YouWeCan Ventures

Yuvraj Singh launched YouWeCan Ventures in 2015, shortly after his Player of the Tournament performance in the 2011 Cricket World Cup had cemented his national stature. The vehicle formalized what had been ad-hoc angel activity, structuring a proprietary pool of capital to back early-stage Indian startups. Unlike athlete-investor models where the principal lends name and takes advisory shares, Singh committed personal balance-sheet capital and operational time to selecting and supporting portfolio companies. The firm focuses on pre-Series A and seed-stage investments across India, with a stated interest in technology-enabled businesses in healthcare, media, consumer internet, and education. Portfolio companies known from public record include Healthians, a diagnostics startup that has since raised from large institutional VCs; EduKart, an online education platform; and Vyomo, a beauty services aggregator. YouWeCan Ventures typically writes first-cheque tickets between $150K and $500K, often alongside angel syndicates and micro-VCs. The vehicle does not raise outside limited partner capital — it operates as a proprietary family-backed fund, giving it freedom from institutional fund-cycle pressures. Team size and total deployment figures are not publicly disclosed. The firm operates from Gurugram and has not publicly announced additional offices or parallel vehicles. Singh runs the investment process with a lean internal team, relying on his personal network and brand to surface deal flow. Recent verifiable deployments are thin in the public domain, consistent with a slow-and-steady proprietary book rather than a momentum-driven institutional fund. Structurally, YouWeCan Ventures is distinct from athlete-founded venture firms that aggregate multiple celebrity LPs. It remains a single-principal vehicle, making it closer to a private family office with a venture mandate than to a traditional fund manager. The absence of external LPs means no LP reporting requirement and no fundraising cycle — a posture that can tolerate long holding periods and binary outcomes without reputational pressure on the founder.