Geodesic Capital

Geodesic Capital is a U.S. mid- and later-stage growth venture capital firm headquartered at 950 Tower Lane, Suite 1100, Foster City, California, founded in 2015 by Founding Partner John V. Roos (former U.S. Ambassador to Japan 2009-2013 and previously CEO of Silicon Valley law firm Wilson Sonsini Goodrich & Rosati) and Founding Partner Ashvin Bachireddy (formerly Head of Growth-Stage Investing at Andreessen Horowitz where he led growth investments in Facebook, Twitter, Box, Airbnb, and GitHub; and previously at Lightspeed Venture Partners, 3i Group, and JMI Equity; multiple Forbes Midas List honoree), together with Partner and Co-Founder Nobuhiko Hirooka and anchor investor Mitsubishi Corporation. The firm's distinctive value proposition is bridging Silicon Valley growth-stage technology companies with Asian (initially Japanese) corporate customers, partners, and government relationships, leveraging the Roos/Mitsubishi networks to facilitate market entry and expansion across Japan and broader Asia. Geodesic closed Fund I at USD 335 million and has continued to raise growth-stage vehicles, with a notable 2025 launch of the USD 250 million Geodesic Alliance Fund focused on U.S.-Japan-alliance-aligned early-stage startups in AI, space, robotics, and national-security adjacent themes, backed by Japanese government entities and corporate LPs. Notable portfolio investments include Airbnb, Confluent, Databricks, Figma, Snapchat, Vercel, UiPath, Marqeta, Uber, Netskope, ThoughtSpot, JFrog, Pendo, One Concern, InVision, and Workato. Ashvin Bachireddy has subsequently become Managing Partner of SV Angel where he leads its Growth Fund.