Peak XV Partners (formerly Sequoia India) raises $350M dedicated to APAC B2B enterprise AI — largest fund targeting India and Southeast Asia enterprise software in 2026. Signals institutional conviction in APAC vertical AI opportunity across regulated industries.
Peak XV Partners, formerly Sequoia Capital India and Southeast Asia, has closed a $350 million fund dedicated to enterprise AI investments across India and Southeast Asia — the largest dedicated APAC enterprise AI venture fund announced in 2026. The fund targets B2B software companies building AI-native solutions for APAC enterprise customers, with particular focus on regulated industry verticals: financial services, healthcare, legal, and government procurement automation.
Peak XV's thesis mirrors the observed deployment pattern in APAC enterprise AI: horizontal AI tools developed in the US often require significant localisation before APAC enterprise customers adopt them, creating opportunity for APAC-native companies that build with local regulatory requirements, language nuance, and enterprise procurement dynamics as primary design constraints. Peak XV identifies three sub-themes for the fund: vertical AI for APAC regulated industries that cannot use US-headquartered cloud tools for data sovereignty reasons, AI-native replacements for legacy enterprise software categories that remain dominant in APAC markets despite age, and AI infrastructure tooling tailored to APAC sovereign cloud requirements.
For APAC technology founders, the $350M commitment represents significant dry powder for enterprise AI investment in the region — with Peak XV's enterprise network (Freshworks, Druva, Darwinbox, and others) providing portfolio company distribution advantages. For APAC CIOs evaluating AI vendor stability, the fund represents institutional commitment to the APAC enterprise AI ecosystem — increasing confidence that APAC-native AI vendors will have the capital runway to build and sustain enterprise-grade products.
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