Cathy Guo
Principal at Iterative
Cathy Guo
Principal at Iterative
Singapore
Overview
Work Experience
Principal
2023 - Current
Growing the GDP of SEA by backing extraordinary entrepreneurs. Write to me at cathy@iterative.vc.
Experimenting, Tinkering
2022 - 2023
Worked on a bunch of ideas, scrapped for various reasons (market, team, passion for idea): (1) Pre-financing platform for carbon projects - beta launched (2) Biochar for nature-based carbon removal - market research (3) Retrofitting residential and industrial equipment w/pollution and carbon capture devices - early sales for residential product, grant and engineering design for industrial
Head of Portfolio
2020 - 2022
• World's fastest growing VC firm, India fund led by Rajiv Srivatsa (ex-Urban Ladder cofounder) and Nitin Sharma (ex-First Principles, Lightbox, NEA) • Led the Portfolio function - supported 20+ portfolio companies in strategy, product, hiring, GTM and fundraising • Select investments and DD in pre-seed companies, e.g. Apnibus, IndiaP2P, Bookee
VC
2019 - 2020
• Thematic early-stage micro-VC led by Nitin Sharma • Led due diligence and investments in companies such as Kutumb, Loco, Clinikk, Scalenut, Karmalife • $720mn+ total portfolio value
Co-Founder, CEO
2017 - 2019
• Building dev + infra tools for dApp developers • Raised $1.5m, hired an amazing team of 15+ and (mostly) got out of their way