DFX Intelligence
Venture Capital Intelligence
Firms, funds, partners, companies and rounds from sworn filings, firm sites and announcements, kept as a graph with a date and a source on every edge. Facts, inferences and estimates are labelled as such. A fund target is never a close, GAV is never dry powder, and a round size is never an investor’s check.
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Firms / W•••••• P••••••• M••••••••• L••
W•••••• P••••••• M••••••••• L••
Private equity with venture activity · probableNeedham, MAw•••••••••SEC registered investment adviser
W•••••• Partners is a research-intensive, highly concentrated investment partnership founded by Arvind Navaratnam, applying the generational multi-decade
registered adviser; venture funds are 0% of 1 private funds
Importance
16
moderate
Active deployment
0
low
Emerging
0
low
Completeness
50
elevated
Freshness
99
high
Research priority
4
low
Identity and regulatory footprint
- Headquarters
- Needham, MAadviserinfo.sec.gov
- Office address
- 117 KENDRICK STREET, SUITE 300, Needham, MA, 02494adviserinfo.sec.gov
- Business phone
- 917-818-0035adviserinfo.sec.gov
- Website
- h•••••••••
- SEC adviser type
- registered investment adviseradviserinfo.sec.gov
- SEC exemption claimed
- unknown
- Latest Form ADV
- May 8, 2024
- Private funds reported
- 1 (0 venture capital funds)adviserinfo.sec.gov
- Private fund gross assets
- $275Madviserinfo.sec.govreported GAV of the funds, the adviser's own number; not fund size, not dry powder
- Regulatory AUM
- $275Mthe adviser's RAUM, a regulatory measure, never a fund size
- Employees
- 9
- business email
- info@worldlypartners.comworldlypartners.compublished by the subject
- business phone
- 917-818-0035adviserinfo.sec.govpublished by the subject
Stated thesis versus observed behaviour
no observed deals yet
Stated (the firm’s website)
- Sectors
- energy, hardware
- Stages
- not stated or not yet read
- Geography
- global, globally
- Check size
- not stated; DFX does not estimate checks from round sizes
Observed (from deals on record)
Stage at participation: no observed deals yet
Stage at first entry: no observed deals yet
Sectors: no observed deals yet
lead rate n/afollow-on rate n/anew logos, 12 months 0
Funds and vehicles
0 reported
No vehicle on record yet. A fund arrives from Form ADV Schedule D 7.B.(1) or a Form D filing.
Investment team
2 current, 0 departed
A••••• N•••••••••
PartnerFounder, Portfolio Manager · since Jun 1, 2020
T••• R••••••
Platform and operationsChief Compliance Officer, Research Analyst · since May 1, 2023
Investments on record
0 edges, 0 companies, 0 partner-attributed
No investment on record yet. Edges arrive from the firm’s portfolio page, financing announcements, and Form D board seats.
Co-investors
0 relationships from shared deals, counted for the whole firm
No co-investor relationship yet: these are derived only from rounds and portfolio listings the graph has seen both investors on.
Limited partners
0 disclosed
No LP commitment on record. An LP edge needs a public disclosure with a quote: a pension report (see Limited partners for the plans read), a fund announcement naming the LP, or a Form ADV owner. The fund page carries the LP’s reported performance.
Timeline
2 dated events
- May 1, 2023T••• R•••••• joined Schedule A of W•••••• P••••••• M••••••••• L•• as Chief Compliance Officer
- Sep 21, 2020W•••••• P••••••• M••••••••• L•• first filed Form ADV (ERA)First SEC adviser filingOrganizationFactSEC Form ADV filing data 2011 to 2024 (every filing, Schedule D 7.B.(1) private funds, Schedules A/B)
Classification history
- Sep 12, 2026Private equity with venture activity (probable, 75%, cls-1)registered adviser; venture funds are 0% of 1 private funds
Evidence
44 observations from 2 sources