# Top 50 Enterprise Startup Investors in Philippines in October 2023 ## Kickstart Ventures - Type: VC Fund - Location: Makati, Manila, Philippines - Relevant deals: 8 - Stages: Seed, Series A - Focus: E-Commerce, Software, Financial Services We invest in early- to growth-stage start-ups who offer solutions to existing pain points and provide forward-looking innovations that will help shape the future we believe in. ## Foxmont Capital Partners - Type: VC Fund - Location: Makati, Manila, Philippines - Relevant deals: 8 - Stages: Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed - Focus: E-Commerce, FinTech, Financial Services Foxmont Capital Partners invest in Filipino-focused or Filipino-founded early stage technology startups that have proven that they can scale effectively and lead the Philippine digital evolution. Foxmont Capital Partners believe that if a Filipino startup can succeed in the Philippines, it can succeed anywhere. ## Next Billion Ventures - Type: VC Fund - Location: Washington, District of Columbia, United States - Relevant deals: 4 - Stages: Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed - Focus: Financial Services, FinTech, E-Commerce A venture capital partnership for emerging markets. ## Wavemaker Partners - Type: VC Fund - Location: Singapore, Central Region, Singapore - Relevant deals: 4 - Stages: Seed, Series A - Focus: Software, E-Commerce, Information Technology Wavemaker Group is a cross-border venture capital firm founded in 2003 and one of the most active early-stage investors across multiple funds. ## Accion Venture Lab - Type: VC Fund - Location: Washington, District of Columbia, United States - Relevant deals: 3 - Stages: Seed, Series A - Focus: Financial Services, FinTech, Finance Accion Venture Lab is an investment initiative that provides startups with seed capital and support. ## Saison Capital - Type: VC Fund - Location: Singapore, Central Region, Singapore - Relevant deals: 3 - Stages: Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A - Focus: Financial Services, FinTech, Information Technology They invest in Seed to Series A companies across South East Asia and India. Although they have a sector agnostic fund mandate, they particularly like to work with founders that are building ecosystems with the potential to distribute financial services to the unbanked. ## Openspace - Type: VC Fund - Location: Singapore, Central Region, Singapore - Relevant deals: 3 - Stages: Series A, Series B, Series C - Focus: E-Commerce, Financial Services, Information Technology Openspace Ventures is a leading venture capital firm finding and backing Southeast Asian companies creating a transformative impact where tech meets life. ## Integra Partners - Type: VC Fund - Location: Singapore, Central Region, Singapore - Relevant deals: 3 - Stages: Series A, Seed - Focus: Financial Services, FinTech, Software We invest in early stage companies run by exceptional founders using technology to drive change and inclusion in financial services and digital health. ## Gobi Partners - Type: VC Fund - Location: Kuala Lumpur, Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia - Relevant deals: 2 - Stages: Series A, Seed, Series B - Focus: E-Commerce, Financial Services, Internet Gobi Partners is the most interconnected Pan-Asian venture capital firm with US$1.5 billion in assets under management (AUM). Headquartered in Kuala Lumpur and Hong Kong, the firm supports entrepreneurs from the early to growth stages and focuses on emerging and underserved markets.Founded in 2002, Gobi has raised 15 funds to date, invested inover 350 startups and nurtured 10 unicorns. Gobi has grown to 15 locations across key markets in Bangkok, Beijing, Cairo, Guangzhou, Ho Chi Minh City, Hong Kong, Jakarta, Karachi, Kuala Lumpur, Lahore, Manila, Shanghai, Shenzhen, Singapore and Surabaya.As a Participant of the United Nations Global Compact, Gobi Partners is committed to aligning strategies and operations with universal principles on human rights, labour, environment and anti-corruption to ensure long-term value creation and sustainability across our portfolio. ## 1982 Ventures - Type: VC Fund - Location: Singapore, Central Region, Singapore - Relevant deals: 2 - Stages: Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A - Focus: Financial Services, FinTech, Payments Early stage venture capital investor focused on fintech in Southeast Asia ## Paco Sandejas - Type: Angel - Relevant deals: 2 - Stages: Seed, Series B, Pre-Seed - Focus: Information Technology, Training, Semiconductor Paco Sandejas currently works as the Founder, Chairman, and CEO at Xepto Education, Stratpoint Technologies, and Narra Ventures. He is Chairman of the Philippine S&T Development Foundation and an Independent Director serving on the boards of Sunlife of Canada (Philippines), Sunlife Asset Management, Maya Bank, and Medical Doctors Inc (MakatiMed). He sits on the board also of Ostrea Mineral Laboratories, Diversified Holdings. He assisted UnionBank of the Philippines in its digital transformation as Independent Board Member until 2021. Paco completed his Ph.D. and MS In Electrical Engineering from Stanford University in 1995 and was the first summa cum ladue graduate in Applied Physics from the University of the Philippines. Paco loves to compete in tennis, football (soccer), and recently golf…ideally as teammate of his children and wife. ## Buko Ventures - Type: VC Fund - Relevant deals: 2 - Stages: Pre-Seed, Seed - Focus: Software, Health Care, Gaming Value-add angel funding for Philippines startup founders. ## KK Fund - Type: VC Fund - Location: Singapore, Central Region, Singapore - Relevant deals: 2 - Stages: Seed, Series A, Series B - Focus: E-Commerce, Marketplace, Internet KK Fund is a venture capital fund to invest in seed stage internet and mobile startups across South East Asia, Hong Kong and Taiwan. ## Two Culture Capital - Type: VC Fund - Location: Dublin, Dublin, Ireland - Relevant deals: 2 - Stages: Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A - Focus: FinTech, Financial Services, Information Technology The art and science of entrepreneurship ## Narra Venture Capital - Type: VC Fund - Location: Manila, Manila, Philippines - Relevant deals: 2 - Stages: Series B, Seed, Series A - Focus: Enterprise Software, Information Technology, Apps Everything You Need to Succeed on Mobile ## Rebel Fund - Type: VC Fund - Location: San Francisco, California, United States - Relevant deals: 2 - Stages: Seed, Series A - Focus: Software, FinTech, Health Care Rebel Fund is powered by an elite team of top Y Combinator alumni partners to support the world's most promising technology startup founders ## Main Sequence Ventures - Type: VC Fund - Location: Sydney, New South Wales, Australia - Relevant deals: 2 - Stages: Series A, Seed, Series B - Focus: Software, Artificial Intelligence, Information Technology We work with inventors who are building something hard from their unique expertise in science. These inventors are building the industries that will thrive for the decades to come. We have a unique working model to accelerate a company's pathway to scale. ## Atlas Pacific Capital - Type: VC Fund - Location: San Jose, California, United States - Relevant deals: 1 - Stages: Seed, Series A, Series F - Focus: Food Delivery, Restaurants, Food and Beverage Founded in 2019, Atlas Pacific Capital is a private investment firm specializing in technology and tech-enabled businesses in emerging markets. With sole focus on growth-oriented investing, we are sector-agnostic investors backing founders that catalyze growth, attract talent, and build enduring franchises. ## AgFunder - Type: VC Fund - Location: San Francisco, California, United States - Relevant deals: 1 - Stages: Seed, Series A, Series B - Focus: Agriculture, AgTech, Biotechnology AgFunder invests in impactful companies that can positively transform the world's food system. Founded in 2013, AgFunder manages a portfolio of over 50 companies across four funds from offices in Silicon Valley and Singapore. Through its media platform AFN, it has built a global ecosystem of over 90,000 subscribers. ## Julien Bouteloup - Type: Angel - Location: London, England, United Kingdom - Relevant deals: 1 - Stages: Seed, Angel, Pre-Seed - Focus: Cryptocurrency, Blockchain, FinTech Julien Bouteloup is a Founder and CEO at Stake Capital Group. Julien previously worked at The British Blockchain Association as a Information Technology Advisor.Julien Bouteloup is a serial entrepreneur and inventor addicted to crazy innovative ideas. He has started his entrepreneurial career building websites and selling hardware technologies atage 14. He holds a Master's degree in Electrical Engineering from Union Graduate College (USA) and a Master's degree in Computer Science and Electrical Engineering from GEM (France), specializing in Artificial Intelligence.He started working in the research sector in USA and then went back to Europe where he started freelancing full-time and consulting in the IT sector for Security & Defence. After 2 years, he quit his freelance position to become a full-time entrepreneur and left to Asia. He has helped and started multiple tech startups in different locations: NYC, Paris, London, Hong-Kong, Brussels and Singapore.In 2017, he founded the Flyingcarpet Network. ## East Ventures - Type: VC Fund - Location: Tokyo, Tokyo, Japan - Relevant deals: 1 - Stages: Seed, Series A - Focus: Software, Information Technology, E-Commerce East Ventures is an early stage venture capital (VC) focused on Southeast Asia, Indonesia & Japan. Success cases include Tokopedia, Traveloka, and Mercari. ## JAM Fund - Type: VC Fund - Location: Las Vegas, Nevada, United States - Relevant deals: 1 - Stages: Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed - Focus: E-Commerce, FinTech, Logistics JAM Fund operates as a venture capital firm investing in visionary founders disrupting large spaces. It is Tinder Founder Justin Mateen's venture capital firm. ## Do Ventures - Type: VC Fund - Location: Ho Chi Minh City, NA - Vietnam, Vietnam - Relevant deals: 1 - Stages: Seed, Series A - Focus: E-Commerce, FinTech, EdTech DO Ventures is a venture fund with the mission to support tech startup companies in Vietnam and Southeast Asia. We provide finance, mentorship, connections to both global and regional startups ## Cross Ocean Ventures - Type: VC Fund - Location: Amsterdam, Noord-Holland, The Netherlands - Relevant deals: 1 - Stages: Series A - Focus: FinTech, Employee Benefits, Financial Services Cross Ocean Ventures invests in and helps European and Israeli startups expand to the US market. We see our strength as finding and helping companies that can be in a position to raise Series A by mainly US investors in the 12-24 months range. ## Phoenix Holdings - Type: VC Fund - Relevant deals: 1 - Stages: Series A - Focus: Financial Services, Banking, FinTech Phoenix Holdings is an investment firm. ## A.Partners - Type: VC Fund - Location: Moscow, Moscow City, Russian Federation - Relevant deals: 1 - Stages: Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A - Focus: Education, Mobile Apps, EdTech A.Partners invests globally in early-stage startups. We believe that successful business models arise in different regions often simultaneously and we can leverage this phenomenon. Nonetheless, we are especially keen on emerging markets, such as LatAm, MENA, and SEA. ## Roland Navarro de Ros - Type: Angel - Relevant deals: 1 - Stages: Seed, Series A - Focus: Audio, Coffee, Gaming Roland Ros is the founder of KumuMedia Technologies, a livestream technology company for over 10+ million GenZ & Millennial Filipinos. Since its launch in 2018, Kumu has reached the #1 Grossing Social App in the Philippines. It has also cracked the Top 10 in Canada, Hong Kong, Kuwait, UK and Norway, as well as Top 20 in several other marketslike the United States, Saudi Arabia, Italy, and Australia. He also currently serves as an investor and advisor for several start-ups; and is passionate about helping others.Prior to KumuMedia Technologies, Roland was Vice President of Spark Revenue, an Inc. 500 listed performance marketing & growth acquisition platform. Prior to Spark Revenue, Roland was VP Business Development for MediaTrust, an online performance advertising exchange and technology company. Prior to MediaTrust, Roland was Partner & VP Business Development at Tracking202, up until the company was acquired by Bloosky Interactive. Roland started his career as a Business Development Associate with GE Money Bank, where he oversaw a $400 million dollar book of business.Roland serves as a Trustee for the Ros Foundation. He has a BA in Asian American Studies from UC Santa Barbara, and studied as an Executive Scholar at the Kellogg School of Management, Northwestern University. ## Starling Ventures - Type: VC Fund - Location: New York, New York, United States - Relevant deals: 1 - Stages: Seed - Focus: Software, Apps, Internet Starling Ventures is a COA contract operator and ship broking company that provides chartering, operations, consulting, and SNP services. ## PAN Group Australia - Type: VC Fund - Location: Prahran, Victoria, Australia - Relevant deals: 1 - Stages: Seed - Focus: Space Travel, Telecommunications, Satellite Communication We are Empowerment Investors. We create the environment to empower people to chase their dream to change the world. #MAD ## Loyal VC - Type: VC Fund - Location: Toronto, Ontario, Canada - Relevant deals: 1 - Stages: Pre-Seed, Seed - Focus: Software, Artificial Intelligence, E-Commerce Loyal runs a global venture fund with quarterly redemptions and a proprietary gate-stage process, reducing investment bias and unlocking greater returns. Partnered with INSEAD, Founder Institute, and 500+ advisors, we are Loyal to the world with 250+ investments in 50+ countries. ## UNICEF Innovation Fund - Type: VC Fund - Location: New York, New York, United States - Relevant deals: 1 - Stages: Grant, Seed - Focus: Blockchain, Financial Services, Artificial Intelligence The UNICEF Innovation Fund is a pooled funding vehicle to quickly assess, fund and grow open-source solutions that have been developed in new and emerging markets.UNICEF's Innovation (Venture) Fund is a newly established, non-thematic, pooled fund which has been specifically designed to finance early stage, open-source technology that canbenefit children. The core motivation of the Innovation Fund is to identify "clusters" or portfolios of initiatives around emerging technology - so that UNICEF can both shape markets and also learn about and guide these technologies to benefit children. They invest in solutions that can impact the lives of the most vulnerable children. They find these solutions clustered around $100billion industries in frontier technology spaces, such as: blockchain, UAVs, virtual and augmented reality, 3D printing, machine learning, quantum computing, genetic engineering, Internet of Things, artificial intelligence, nano-satellites and human dynamics. ## GMO VenturePartners - Type: VC Fund - Location: Tokyo, Tokyo, Japan - Relevant deals: 1 - Stages: Seed, Series A - Focus: Financial Services, FinTech, Finance An investment that restructures the value and quality.Supplying big capital is not an essential value of our firm.We have a strong attitude to input and drive critical thinking behind a new startup.After the problem is clarified and solution become established in the world,people could not imagine the society without that solution.An investment that innovates this world.We will become a real partner to execute the strategy together.INVENTION OF THE ESSENCE ----we will keep on doing it. ## Air Liquide - Type: VC Fund - Location: Paris, Ile-de-France, France - Relevant deals: 1 - Stages: Seed, Series A - Focus: Renewable Energy, Energy, Manufacturing A world leader in gases, technologies and services for Industry and Health ## Ocean Capital - Type: VC Fund - Location: Warwick, Rhode Island, United States - Relevant deals: 1 Ocean Capital offers loans and financing to the small business community in the United States. ## Future Now Ventures - Type: VC Fund - Location: Sydney, New South Wales, Australia - Relevant deals: 1 - Stages: Seed - Focus: Mobile, Retail, Travel Creating tomorrow's value in today's growth ventures and early stage startups. ## Mangrove Capital Partners - Type: VC Fund - Location: Luxembourg, Luxembourg, Luxembourg - Relevant deals: 1 - Stages: Series A, Seed, Series B - Focus: Software, E-Commerce, Information Technology Mangrove Capital Partners is a contrarian investment firm helping innovative entrepreneurs start and grow. ## Lendable - Type: VC Fund - Location: Nairobi, Nairobi Area, Kenya - Relevant deals: 1 Lendable is a technology enabled investment and alternatives platform that focuses on global impact alternatives. ## Oyster Ventures - Type: VC Fund - Location: San Francisco, California, United States - Relevant deals: 1 - Stages: Seed, Series A - Focus: Software, FinTech, Financial Services Oyster Ventures invests in exceptional new-frontier technology companies. We target companies that bring liquidity and efficiency to antiquated industries, companies that enable globalization, and with the leverage to massively scale. ## Crystal Towers - Type: VC Fund - Location: New York, New York, United States - Relevant deals: 1 - Stages: Series B, Seed, Series A - Focus: SaaS, Machine Learning, Commercial Real Estate Crystal Towers is a VC fund backed by several Y Combinator founders. It will start out with between $90 million and $100 million to invest in the most promising YC companies out of every batch. The name Crystal Towers comes from an apartment complex in San Francisco where Y Combinator founders have lived. Crystal Tower has also been referred toas “Y Scraper,” another name that was weighed up for this fund. ## William Kim - Type: Angel - Relevant deals: 1 - Stages: Series A - Focus: Software, E-Commerce, Information Technology William Kim is a Chief Executive Officer at Rapha. William previously worked at Samsung Mobile as an Executive Vice President. He attended the University of Colorado Boulder. ## TheVentures - Type: VC Fund - Location: Seoul, Seoul-t'ukpyolsi, South Korea - Relevant deals: 1 - Stages: Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed - Focus: Software, Information Technology, Health Care TheVentures provides their portfolio companies access to on staff world class experts in recruiting, PR, marketing, early stage customer acquisition, raising money, and strategy. They even provide engineering and design support, co-building products with the founding team, while assiting in hiring those difficult to recruit early engineers. ## Jayson Dolorito - Type: Angel - Relevant deals: 1 - Stages: Seed - Focus: Sales, Software, Marketing Jayson Dolorito ## Ocean Impact Organisation - Type: VC Fund - Relevant deals: 1 - Stages: Seed - Focus: AgTech, Farming, E-Commerce Platforms Ocean Impact Organisation’s purpose is to transform ocean health through inspiration, innovation, and good business. ## Marc De Stoop - Type: Angel - Relevant deals: 1 - Stages: Seed - Focus: Space Travel, Telecommunications, Satellite Communication Marc De Stoop is a managing director at Climatech Group ## MAIN - Type: VC Fund - Relevant deals: 1 - Stages: Seed - Focus: Restaurants, Food Delivery, Online Portals Main is a venture capital investment firm. ## Unifier Ventures - Type: VC Fund - Relevant deals: 1 - Stages: Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A - Focus: Software, Artificial Intelligence, Information Technology We invest in early-stage startups and partner with true outliers in Europe and Southeast Asia building industry disrupting solutions. ## Kaya Founders - Type: VC Fund - Relevant deals: 1 - Stages: Pre-Seed, Seed, Series A - Focus: FinTech, Apps, E-Commerce Kaya Founders Investment operates as an investment firm. ## OSK Group - Type: VC Fund - Relevant deals: 1 - Stages: Seed - Focus: AgTech, Farming, E-Commerce Platforms OSK Group operates as an investment firm. ## True Digital Group - Type: VC Fund - Location: Bangkok, Krung Thep, Thailand - Relevant deals: 1 - Stages: Series C - Focus: Film, Publishing, Social News Enabling Digital Transformation As a subsidiary of True Corporation, a leading communications conglomerate in Thailand, True Digital Group (TDG) ambition is to transform Thailand and the region for digital revolutions. uncover new opportunities. It also means consumers can enjoy digital lifestyles. ## Jimenez family - Type: VC Fund - Relevant deals: 1 - Stages: Seed - Focus: AgTech, Farming, E-Commerce Platforms Jimenez family operates as an investment firm. # About Shizune Shizune.co is an investor database. Core features: - 48,091 startup investors (angels, VCs, accelerators, and others) - Email, phone, LinkedIn (for intros), socials, and other contact data - Updated daily from public funding news - CSV and Excel export The User can access the full database FOR FREE after signing up: shizune.co