Top 10 Education Angel Investors in Philippines (May 2026)

Francis Plaza currently works as an Advisor to the Boards for PayMongo. He attended Massachusetts Institute of Technology.

Investment focus

Industry: Education, Software, Gaming
Stage:Pre-Seed, Angel, Equity Crowdfunding
Geography: Philippines, United States

Investor stats

Total investments: 5
Lead/follow: 0% lead, 100% follow

Portfolio highlights

AcadArena — AcadArena is the home of campus gaming in the Philippines and Southeast Asia. Join tournaments, earn esports scholarships and meet new friends all for free!
Gretel.co — The feed that generates automated insights from your marketing apps. Connect your apps with 1 click and receive alerts for changes in your campaigns, customer behavior, and performance.
NextPay — Receive, manage, and spend your company's finances on a single platform. Save time and costs with a digital financial suite built to empower growing businesses.

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Lin is the COO of Twitch, the world’s leading social video platform and community for gamers. He was instrumental in the 2011 launch of the platform when he joined Justin.tv in 2008. His role included attracting the site’s largest broadcasters and building out the partnership team among other activities which have helped grow the Twitch brand.Currently more than 100 million gamers gather every month on Twitch to broadcast live video, watch and chat about gaming, making the platform an industry leader.

Investment focus

Industry: Gaming, Information Technology, Video Games
Stage:Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed
Geography: United States, India, United Kingdom

Investor stats

Total investments: 110
Round size: Seed $750k–$8.3M; Pre-Seed $150k–$1.8M; Series A $6M–$20M
Lead/follow: 3% lead, 97% follow

Portfolio highlights

AnotherBall — AnotherBall = Digital + Entertainment + Token economy
Blacktop Hoops — Blacktop Hoops is a streetball-inspired multiplayer VR basketball game. Chain together flashy dribble tricks, shots, and high-flying dunks to finish off AI opponents or players across the globe in epic streetball matches.
Scriptic — Scriptic, interactive story games on mobile.

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Blaine Vess is the Founder of Immeasurable. Attended at Y Combinator.

Investment focus

Industry: Software, FinTech, Financial Services
Stage:Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A
Geography: United States, India, United Kingdom

Investor stats

Total investments: 47
Round size: Seed $125k–$3.1M
Lead/follow: 0% lead, 100% follow

Portfolio highlights

Kredi — Kredi is Rocket Mortgage for LatAm. Customers can easily secure a mortgage online.
Milk Video — Milk Video helps increase page conversion and drive traffic from social. Remix existing video content into high conversion trailers, snippets, and more.
Yummy — Superapp of Venezuela & Quick Commerce for LATAM

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Gabby Dizon is the Chairman and co-founder of Alto.io, a Singapore-based game platform that connects games to the blockchain. He helped pioneer the Philippine game industry as part of the team that released the first Filipino-made game in 2003. Gabby is also CEO of game developer Altitude Games and former President of the Game DevelopersAssociation of the Philippines. Gabby helps champion the game development industry in Southeast Asia and is an active member of the Philippine startup community.

Investment focus

Industry: Blockchain, Gaming, Cryptocurrency
Stage:Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A
Geography: United States, Australia, Hong Kong

Investor stats

Total investments: 34
Round size: Seed $1.5M–$5M; Series A $5M–$16M
Lead/follow: 6% lead, 94% follow

Portfolio highlights

Mocaverse — Mocaverse is the Animoca Brands membership NFT collection of 8,888 unique beings: The Mocas. Join the Mocas in the realms to Learn, Play, Do Good, and Build together as we champion our Web3 values!
Proof of Play — We are a team of veteran game developers and entrepreneurs creating onchain games and open source technology. Our vision is simple: to create generation-defining games that fundamentally grant power and ownership to the players who play them.
SuperDuperSecret — The developer's initial game, Royale Chess, a ten-player battle royale chess game, is the first of many to be released on their meta-game platform, which focuses on multiplayer, evergreen games.

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Holly Liu is co-founder and Chief of Staff of Kabam, a world leader in AAA mobile free-to-play games. Holly also oversees Kabam’s corporate culture as head of People Operations (“People Ops”), which is responsible for driving Kabam’s vision, mission, and values for its more than 800 employees in offices around the world. Holly has helped build aworld-class human resources team that is responsible for recruiting and retaining top talent and has grown Kabam’s personnel base by 500% in three years.Prior to her role as Chief of Staff, Holly was VP of People Ops and Director of User Experience. She led the product design for Kabam’s award-winning Kingdom’s of Camelot, which has grown into a $250 million franchise in less than four years. Holly was also an initial designer for the mobile extension Kingdoms of Camelot: Battle for the North, which was the top grossing app on iOS in 2012.Before co-founding Kabam, Holly was Senior User Interface Designer for AOL, where she led design of community web products. She has also worked as a consultant for Arthur Andersen and Accenture.Holly received her Master’s in Information Management & Systems from UC Berkeley and her B.A. in Mass Communications from UCLA. She was named to Forbes’ “Top 10 Women Entrepreneurs to Watch” in 2013 and one of Fortune’s “10 Most Powerful Women in Gaming.”

Investment focus

Industry: Blockchain, Cryptocurrency, Gaming
Stage:Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A
Geography: United States, India, Taiwan

Investor stats

Total investments: 26
Round size: Seed $1.4M–$9M
Lead/follow: 3% lead, 97% follow

Portfolio highlights

Trend — Trend connects brands with content creators in order to scale user-generated content across a variety of platforms while increasing their marketing ROI.
Metagood — Metagood is a for-profit company that empowers communities to be catalysts for positive collective action.Founded by crypto veterans Danny Yang who created the largest crypto currency exchange in Taiwan, Amanda Terry who was an Twitter and NBC executive, and Bill Tai who was the first investor in Zoom, Canva, and 20 other publicly tradedcompanies, Metagood launched OnChainMonkey, the historic PFP collection all on chain in a single transaction on Sept 11, 2021. OnChainMonkey has been consistently ranked as one of the most profitable NFTs collections globally. Metagood was awarded Fast Company's 2022 20 Best World Changing Ideas for Impact Investing.
Chaos Genius — Chaos Genius is a DataOps Observability tool for reducing Snowflake costs & Snowflake query optimization. Get started on Snowflake Observability for free.

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Patrick Lee is an entrepreneur focused on the intersection of tech+entertainment best known for being a co-founder & the founding CEO of Rotten Tomatoes (rottentomatoes.com), a leading entertainment website focused on movie reviews and news. He is a Co-Founder & Managing Partner of PKO Investments, a syndicate of notable founders andinvestors investing in the next generation of tech founders. He is part of the Founding Team and a Board Member of the Gold House Collective and is an active advisor to a number of startups. He has also mentored and/or supported programs at 500 Startups, SOSV, Berkeley SkyDeck, Blue Startups, Founder Institute, and more. Patrick holds a BA in Cognitive Science from the University of California at Berkeley.

Investment focus

Industry: Blockchain, Media and Entertainment, Comics
Stage:Seed, Pre-Seed
Geography: United States, Taiwan, Philippines

Investor stats

Total investments: 12
Round size: Seed $4.3M–$9M
Lead/follow: 0% lead, 100% follow

Portfolio highlights

Voyceme — Read action-packed and diverse English-originated webcomics, comics, webnovels, manga, and manhwa/manhua for FREE. Download the VoyceMe app now and connect with your favorite creators or monetize your stories while building a dedicated fanbase.
Metagood — Metagood is a for-profit company that empowers communities to be catalysts for positive collective action.Founded by crypto veterans Danny Yang who created the largest crypto currency exchange in Taiwan, Amanda Terry who was an Twitter and NBC executive, and Bill Tai who was the first investor in Zoom, Canva, and 20 other publicly tradedcompanies, Metagood launched OnChainMonkey, the historic PFP collection all on chain in a single transaction on Sept 11, 2021. OnChainMonkey has been consistently ranked as one of the most profitable NFTs collections globally. Metagood was awarded Fast Company's 2022 20 Best World Changing Ideas for Impact Investing.
Jubilee Media — Media company for positive, purpose-driven millennials.

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Neal Cross is a globally recognized corporate, social and start-up entrepreneur with a long track record across blue-chip technology, finance and data companies. He is currently co-founder and chairman of PictureWealth, one of the world’s fastest growing wealth fintech companies and serves on the advisory board of Razer Fintech. Prior to this,Cross was the Chief Innovation Officer at DBS Bank, where in his tenure he drove their transformation into a global innovation powerhouse culminating in achieving the world’s best Digital Bank 2016 and 2018 and worlds best bank 3 times across 2018 and 2019. He has personally been awarded the world’s most disruptive CIO/CTO globally from judges Sir Richard Branson and Apple co-founder Steve Wozniak and is a regular winner of best innovation lab and innovation leader awards. His early life as a game developer has left him with a passion for gaming and the realisation that software should be engaging and rewarding. To this end Cross is passionate about solving problems in an elegant manner and deploys world class programs to engage the entire work force in the business of innovation. Cross has advised hundreds of the major brands in Asia and is a trusted adviser to several leading CEO’s, government agencies and start-ups. In his spare time, he has built social enterprises to help save the endangered orangutans and coral reefs in Sumatra. and due to this was recently listed in The Meaningful Business 100 which focuses on the individual, cutting through the corporate messaging to uncover which leaders are driving truly impactful, purpose-led business to align with the United Nations Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs).

Investment focus

Industry: FinTech, Finance, Education
Stage:Seed
Geography: Philippines

Investor stats

Total investments: 1
Lead/follow: 0% lead, 100% follow

Portfolio highlights

Future Penny — Future Penny is a robo-advice platform that advises users how to plan their financial lives. It provides information across a broad range of areas including budgeting, superannuation, insurance, estate planning, and investments.Future Penny is expected to create a big opportunity for banks to consider how they can provide online advice to notonly their customers but also directly to their employees.

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Michael Dargani

Investment focus

Industry: EdTech, Training, Education
Stage:Series A
Geography: Philippines

Investor stats

Total investments: 1
Lead/follow: no public data

Portfolio highlights

Edukasyon.ph — Edukasyon is an Edtech platform empowering Filipino youth to make self-aware education decisions that lead to a fulfilling career and life.Edukasyon.ph is an education technology platform in the Philippines. It aims to empower more than 20 million Filipino Gen Z youth to make self-aware education decisions that lead to a fulfilling career andlife. Its online platform enables students to access senior high schools, colleges and universities, scholarships, online courses, internships, and other learning resources. In partnership with hundreds of educational institutions, corporations and foundations, Edukasyon.ph equips the youth with information to help them create and shape their own paths, as they discover more about themselves and the opportunities available to them. Edukasyon.ph, which also operates the website FindUniversity, www.finduniversity.ph, engages more than 10 million Filipino Gen Z youth each year.Edukasyon.ph is supported in part by impact investors, family offices and angel investors across Asia and Europe, including Mustard Seed, Villgro Philippines, French Partners, KSR Ventures, Gobi-Core Philippine Fund, EduLab Capital Partners, Obunsha Ventures, Alternate Ventures, Foxmont Capital Partners, Lorinet Foundation and First Asia Venture Capital. Edukasyon.ph has received several recognitions for its work, including the 2017 Financial Times / IFC Transformational Business Award for Achievement in Sustainable Development, with a focus on Education, Knowledge and Skills, as well as the 2017 ASEAN Youth Social Entrepreneurship Awards. Edukasyon.ph was also included in the 2016 World Innovation Summit for Education (WISE) Accelerator Program.Launched in 2015, Edukasyon.ph now has a team of more than 90 and is headquartered in Manila, with offices in Cebu and Davao. For more information, visit www.edukasyon.ph.

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Michael Chow is the Co-Founder of XRM Media.

Investment focus

Industry: Gaming, eSports, Education
Stage:Seed, Pre-Seed
Geography: Philippines, United States

Investor stats

Total investments: 2
Lead/follow: 0% lead, 100% follow

Portfolio highlights

AcadArena — AcadArena is the home of campus gaming in the Philippines and Southeast Asia. Join tournaments, earn esports scholarships and meet new friends all for free!
Canvas Media Studios — Innovative Storytelling For Every Canvas

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