Truecaller

Truecaller is the leading global platform for verifying contacts and blocking unwanted communication.

Truecaller is the leading global platform for verifying contacts and blocking unwanted communication.

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Milestones

Founded in 2009 $19M B Round led by Sequoia Capital in 2013. C Round led by KPBC and Atomico in 2014 Profitable in 2019

Investment year

2012

Investment stage

Series A

Investment status

IPO

Deal team

Ralf Wahlsten

Patrik Backman

Tom Henriksson

Truecaller is the leading global platform for verifying contacts and blocking unwanted communication.

Fraud and unwanted communication are widespread challenges in digital economies, especially in emerging markets. Truecaller helps enable safe and relevant conversations between people, while making it easier and more efficient for businesses to connect with consumers. The app aggregates directory services through partnerships with white pages companies and platforms like Yelp to list businesses. Founded in Sweden, Truecaller has gained significant traction in markets such as India, its largest market with 80 million users, and currently boasts 450 million monthly active users worldwide.

News highlights

Why are we still building development teams like it’s 2020?

Why are we still building development teams like it’s 2020?

Twenty-five years ago, I could have written that same sentence and replaced “AI” with “the Web,” and forty years ago, “the personal computer.” This is not an article about needing to use Claude or other agentic AI tools; that is something you should be doing already. In this case, I’m talking about a fundamental restructuring of how software gets built and deployed.

Duleepa “Dups” Wijayawardhana

Venture Partner

Portfolio spotlight: Dreamfold

Portfolio spotlight: Dreamfold

Welcome to our portfolio spotlight series, where we highlight the teams behind some of the most ambitious technical companies. A company is only as strong as the people behind it, which is why we share the stories of the teams driving these disruptive innovations.

General Partner

What founders get wrong about speed and scale

What founders get wrong about speed and scale

Every founder faces the same question: how fast should you go? In conversation with our Venture Partner, Duleepa “Dups” Wijayawardhana, we explored why so many startups struggle to balance speed, quality and scale, and how to get it right (at least most of the time). As Dups puts it, for every rule there is an exception, and for every exception there is something to learn.

Duleepa “Dups” Wijayawardhana

Venture Partner