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Dusan Stojanovic

Founding Partner and Director at True Global Ventures 4 Plus

Singapore

Overview 

Dusan Stojanovic is the Founding Partner and Director at True Global Ventures 4 Plus in Singapore, with a focus on venture capital, start-ups, and entrepreneurship. He has invested in notable companies like Animoca Brands and Chronicled, and holds board positions in various organizations such as Ledger and The Sandbox. Stojanovic's career highlights include founding Innovator Founders Capital and serving as a board member for companies like Chronicled and ChromaWay, showcasing his expertise in venture capital and strategic business development.

Work Experience 

  • Founding Partner and Executive Director

    2022 - Current

    True Global Ventures is licensed under Monetary Authorities of Singapore and is actively deploying in Artificial Intelligence (AI) & Blockchain companies. TGV GPs are investing their own money between 20%-35% of the total AUM. TGV Opportunity Fund (TGV 5), launched in June 2022, a 166M USD fund investing in external opportunities mainly in late stage AI companies, as well as selected portfolio companies of TGV 4 Plus Base Fund, investing from Series B onwards. Our most recent 6 investments in 2024 in AI-First companies include: Obligo: Risk/Financial Services AI company pricing risk to remove the need for Rental Deposit distributing through property software companies. Prezent: AI-powered business communication and presentation productivity platform. Validation Cloud: Staking, Node APIs and providing data insights for Web3 enterprises, applications and protocols. Jus Mundi: Leading legal tech company leveraging AI to enhance international arbitration and legal research. Coding Giants: Using AI to co-pilot teachers in ensuring repeatable quality in coding courses Tookitaki: Providing anti-fraud and anti-money laundering solutions for financial institutions TGV 5 is also invested in 3 global market leaders namely Ledger, Animoca Brands, The Sandbox.

  • Founding Partner and Executive Director

    2018

    TGV 4 Plus Base Fund (TGV4) is a 113M USD early-stage fund that has deployed into 16 portfolio companies to date including: Ledger: Global market leader in self-custody, cold storage hardware wallet solution with 20% of the world’s crypto assets secured, services supporting trading, buying, spending, earning, staking, etc. The Sandbox: Global market leader in gaming metaverse empowering artists, creators, players to play, build, own, monetise virtual experiences on blockchain. Animoca Brands: Unicorn global market leader leveraging gamification & blockchain to develop and publish a portfolio of games. Chromaway: Creator of relational blockchain protocol Chromia ($CHR), powering Metaverse game My Neighbor Alice ($ALICE), Mines of Dalarnia ($DAR), etc GCEX: Regulated digital brokerage (UK, Denmark, UAE) & trading platform bringing Tier 1 liquidity for Institutional clients bridging gap between traditional finance & digital assets Forge Global (NYSE: FRGE): Global market leader in secondary private market shares transactions, with over 14 B USD transaction volume, in > 500 companies SATO Technologies Corp (TSXV: SATO): Bitcoin mining company based in Quebec utilising 100% renewable energy Forza Football: Sports tech company in football media featuring live-scores, statistics and video highlights for both men's and women's football globally. Our other portfolio companies include: Coinhouse, Chronicled, Quantumrock, Enjinstarter, Printler, Bookit N Go, Bus Up, Iomob

  • Board Member

    2025

Obligo rids both landlords and renters from the burden of security deposits.

Raised $92,500,000.00 from Entrée Capital, True Global Ventures (TGV), HighSage Ventures, 83North, 10D and MUFG Innovation Partners.

  • Observer Board Member

    2023

  • Board Member

    2022

  • Board Member

    2022

  • Board Member

    2019

The Sandbox develops a decentralized gaming platform that leverages non-fungible tokens and blockchain technology.

Raised $117,000,000.00 from LG Technology Ventures, True Global Ventures (TGV), Animoca Brands and Kingsway Capital.

  • Board Member

    2022 - 2025

  • Founder and Director

    2010 - 2024

    Innovator Founders’ Capital 1,2,3 (F.K.A. True Global Ventures 1,2,3) Investment vehicles set up by serial entrepreneurs investing in serial entrepreneurs in Bay Area, New York, Singapore, Hong Kong, Berlin, Paris within mainly B2B Fintech & Fintech related companies: Investments: Forge Global NYSE: FRGE (US - SF) Initial investment SharesPost, Pre-IPO online secondaries marketplace for late stage VC-backed private companies. Board Observer. Merged with Forge Global. IPOed on New York Stock Exchange in 2022. Animoca Brands (Hong Kong) Initial investment Stryking (Berlin). Free-to-play sports games, teamed up with Sports Media Partners providing innovative monetizing combining real & virtual worlds. Sold to Animoca Brands in 2019. The Blockchain Group (EURONEXT: ALTBG) Initial investment Bountysource (US-SF) bounties marketplace with 100,000+ open source developers. Clients: IBM, Ripple, Facebook. Board Member. Sold to the Blockchain Group in 2020. Aptiv.io (US-NYC) Revenue AI enterprise SaaS for salespeople. Translates data into smart decisions based on cognitive computing, AI & ML. Bluerider Software (Bialystok) AI workflow process software house. Formerly technology team of Opentopic (US-NYC), platform for content discovery & distribution for marketers. Key partnership with IBM Watson 2015. Exited: Goswiff (Singapore) payments company present in 26 emerging markets offering MPOS, authentication, wallet & payment processing solutions. Sold to PaySwiff in 2017. PaySwiff was then sold to CHOLA Group in 2022. Bluzelle (Singapore) offers a fully integrated stack of blockchain applications, middleware, data services - payment network, smart insurance & KYC-Identity. Key clients: Maybank, AIA, MSIG; Partners: Microsoft, British Telecom & Temenos. Board Member. Exited 2022. 4GSecure (Paris) payment solution for mobile apps with authentication system using 2D bar codes, NFC, OTP enabling mobile payments with vouchers. Sold to SCCP Group in Singapore June 2012.

  • Board Member

    2021 - 2022

  • Board Observer

    2017 - 2020

SharesPost Investment Management manages the public Sharespost 100 Fund (PRIVX) and other funds.

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