Venture capital firm
Twine Ventures
Twine Ventures is a San Francisco-headquartered early-stage venture capital firm and asset manager founded in 2021 by Founder and General Partner Leshika Samarasinghe. Operating as an operator-led venture capital manager, the firm's core investment strategy focuses on deploying pre-seed, seed, and Series A equity capital into high-growth, mission-driven technology companies across human health (healthtech), climate technology, and financial empowerment/inclusion. Twine Ventures targets early-stage startups leveraging artificial intelligence, data science, and software infrastructure to solve systemic societal challenges.
Investment focus
- Sectors
- Financial servicesHealthcareTechnologyConsumer
- Stages and strategies
- Pre-seedSeed
- Instruments
- Equity
- Regions
- Sub-Saharan Africa, Europe, Americas
Funds managed
Sources
- Partner Researchers, accessed 14 November 2026