Top 15 eSports Startup Investors in Philippines (May 2026)

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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Hustle Fund is a seed fund that seeks to invest in early-stage startups operating in software, business to business, fintech, and digital health sectors.

Investment focus

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

Investor stats

Total investments: 205
Round size: Seed $958k–$5.4M; Pre-Seed $77k–$1.5M; Series A $2.1M–$40M
Lead/follow: 7% lead, 93% follow
Last fund: May invest from a new fund soon — last raise in 2019

Portfolio highlights

Deskree — Generate a complete and scalable back-end infrastructure with tons of features via a web interface. Infinitely scalable & truly independent.
EquityList — Equity management with online cap table management and employee stock option programs (ESOP) administration. Available free for Indian startups
Series — Series provides full-stack enterprise financial services designed for institutions & enterprises.

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1kx is an early-stage investment firm focused on ecosystem growth.

Investment focus

Industry: Blockchain, Cryptocurrency, FinTech
Stage:Seed, Series A
Geography: United States, Germany, Switzerland

Investor stats

Total investments: 75
Round size: Seed $1.6M–$10M; Series A $6M–$28M
Lead/follow: 39% lead, 61% follow

Portfolio highlights

IYK — IYK inspires people to live in the moment by bridging immersive physical and digital experiences.
fxhash — fxhash is an open platform to mint and collect Generative Tokens on the Tezos blockchain
Spearbit — Web3 Security At Scale

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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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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.

Investment focus

Industry: Audio, Coffee, Gaming
Stage:Seed, Series A
Geography: Philippines

Investor stats

Total investments: 4
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!
PickUp Coffee — PickUp Coffee is a start-up that aims to increase the accessibility of espresso and milk-based beverages. PickUp Coffee is located in Taguig, Philippines.
Lista — Manage your cash flow, maximize business potential and grow your business with Lista. Download now for FREE!

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Luis Sia - Co-Founder & Chief Commercial Officer @ PayMongo

Investment focus

Industry: Apps, SaaS, Beauty
Stage:Pre-Seed
Geography: Philippines

Investor stats

Total investments: 4
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!
Peddlr — Effortlessly track and manage your business sales, expenses, and inventory with our leading POS mobile app. Use it anywhere, anytime, and even offline!
BeautyBuddy — BeautyBuddy is a SaaS enabled, social-powered marketplace designed to streamline operations and drive discovery for beauty services in SEA.

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As a thesis-led, high-conviction venture capital firm, we use data-driven methodologies to identify and invest in select companies that are primed for the future and ready to change the very face of their categories.

Investment focus

Industry: Information Technology, Retail, E-Commerce
Stage:Series A, Seed, Convertible Note
Geography: Singapore, Indonesia, Vietnam

Investor stats

Total investments: 24
Round size: Seed $3.5M–$3.8M; Series A $2.4M–$10M; Convertible Note $1.1M–$6M
Lead/follow: 63% lead, 37% follow
Last fund: May invest from a new fund soon — raised $23M in 2018

Portfolio highlights

Ora — ORA specializes in direct-to-patient healthcare transformation. The company was founded in 2020 and is based in Singapore.
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!
Ion Mobility — Ion Mobility is a tech-driven all-electric mobility company tackling a challenging and complex space.

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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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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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Value-add angel funding for Philippines startup founders.

Investment focus

Industry: Software, Health Care, Gaming
Stage:Pre-Seed, Seed
Geography: Philippines

Investor stats

Total investments: 6
Round size: Pre-Seed $10k–$60k
Lead/follow: 0% lead, 100% follow

Portfolio highlights

Playdex — Playdex is an NFT gaming rental marketplace that seamlessly connects gamers, guilds, and NFT owners.
STAT — STAT offers quick, wide range of meds & convenient online medicine delivery. We are revolutionizing the way Filipinos purchase their medicine needs. We have delivered 1300+ orders with $69k revenue since we started in 2021 with a vision of dominating the $16.5B pharma market of PH.
VAI Analytics — Built to Build. Vanguard AI is a powerful but flexible FREE analytic platform for trading stocks in the Philppine Stock Exchange.

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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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Who we are We are investors and entrepreneurs helping define the next generation of Blockchain startups. Our Focus Passionate founders. Disruptive models. Borderless markets. Exponential effects. Our Geography Starting from...

Investment focus

Industry: Blockchain, Gaming, Cryptocurrency
Stage:Seed, Pre-Seed
Geography: United States, Singapore, Philippines

Investor stats

Total investments: 91
Round size: Seed $2M–$6M; Pre-Seed $680k–$3.6M
Lead/follow: 25% lead, 75% follow
Last fund: Likely still investing — fund raised in 2022

Portfolio highlights

Web3Go — Web3Go is a blockchain startup that provides data tools powered by artificial intelligence.
MetaZone — MetaZone's mission is to harness and expand the application layer of the metaverse to onboard a billion citizens. MetaZone is the first content distribution platform designed to facilitate the open digital economy. At its core, creators submit Metaverse Enabled Tokenized Applications (METAs) to the marketplace, allowing anyone to own,experience, and deploy them to any virtual world. Anyone connected to the platform can host high-quality functional 3D content on digital lands with the click of a few buttons.
Utopia Labs — Trusted by leading DAOs to streamline operations, manage payroll, and consolidate financial reporting.

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Hashed is a global, early stage venture fund focused on backing founders who are pioneering the future of blockchain and cryptocurrency. Hashed is based in Seoul and San Francisco.

Investment focus

Industry: Blockchain, Cryptocurrency, Financial Services
Stage:Seed, Series A
Geography: United States, South Korea, Singapore

Investor stats

Total investments: 197
Round size: Seed $1M–$10M; Series A $5.3M–$60M
Lead/follow: 32% lead, 68% follow
Last fund: Likely still investing — fund raised in 2021

Portfolio highlights

Delabs Games — At Delabs Games, we want to create fun games that last a thousand years.
SupraOracles — We're supercharging oracles to provide blockchains better, faster, accurate, and more secure off-chain data.
Story Protocol — Story Protocol is building open IP infrastructure to grow the creativity of the internet era.

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Kingsway Capital is a investment management firm.

Investment focus

Industry: Financial Services, FinTech, Cryptocurrency
Stage:Seed, Series B, Series A
Geography: United States, United Kingdom, Germany

Investor stats

Total investments: 74
Round size: Seed $1.5M–$11M; Series A $15M–$120M; Series B $6M–$70M
Lead/follow: 28% lead, 72% follow
Last fund: May invest from a new fund soon — last raise in 2009

Portfolio highlights

LandVault — In-Play is a non-intrusive monetization solution for games and digital spaces that puts player experience first.
TinyTap — TinyTap, the world's largest library of games by teachers, becomes a part of Animoca Brands to build an open education system on blockchain
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!

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