# Top 50 Financial Services Startup Investors in Philippines in May 2026 ## Wavemaker Partners - Type: VC Fund - Location: Singapore, Central Region, Singapore - Relevant deals: 7 - 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: 5 - Stages: Seed, Series A - Focus: Financial Services, FinTech, Finance Accion Venture Lab is an investment initiative that provides startups with seed capital and support. ## Spiral Ventures - Type: VC Fund - Location: Singapore, Central Region, Singapore - Relevant deals: 5 - Stages: Series A, Seed, Series B - Focus: E-Commerce, Internet, Information Technology Our former entity “IMJ Investment Partners” was established in 2012 by IMJ Corporation (“IMJ”), a major digital marketing company, as an independent venture capital subsidiary in Japan. After IMJ was acquired by Culture Convenience Club (“CCC”) in 2013, we continued our investment activities independently, and eventually relocated our office toSingapore to change our strategy and start a venture capital fund for the Southeast Asia market. In 2015, we established the Japan office and started a venture capital fund for the Japanese market.In tandem with the expansion of our business, we left the CCC Group, changed our name to “Spiral Ventures” in 2017, and made a fresh start as an independent venture capital firm.taken from https://spiral-ventures.com/en/group-info/ ## 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. ## Golden Gate Ventures - Type: VC Fund - Location: Singapore, Central Region, Singapore - Relevant deals: 4 - Stages: Seed, Series A, Series B - Focus: FinTech, E-Commerce, Financial Services Golden Gate Ventures is a venture capital firm investing across Southeast Asia. Since 2011, the firm has launched four funds, managed US$250M AUM, and invested in 60+ companies in over 7 countries in Asia. The firm focuses on investing in technology companies driven by the rising consumer class in Southeast Asia. ## Foxmont Capital Partners - Type: VC Fund - Location: Makati, Manila, Philippines - Relevant deals: 4 - 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. ## Integra Partners - Type: VC Fund - Location: Singapore, Central Region, Singapore - Relevant deals: 4 - 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. ## 1982 Ventures - Type: VC Fund - Location: Singapore, Central Region, Singapore - Relevant deals: 3 - Stages: Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A - Focus: Financial Services, FinTech, Payments Early stage venture capital investor focused on fintech in Southeast Asia ## Kaya Founders - Type: VC Fund - Relevant deals: 3 - Stages: Pre-Seed, Seed, Series A - Focus: FinTech, Apps, E-Commerce Kaya Founders Investment operates as an investment firm. ## Kickstart Ventures - Type: VC Fund - Location: Makati, Manila, Philippines - Relevant deals: 3 - 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. ## 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. ## BEENEXT - Type: VC Fund - Location: Singapore, Central Region, Singapore - Relevant deals: 3 - Stages: Seed, Series A, Series B - Focus: Software, E-Commerce, FinTech BEENEXT is a Venture Capital fund managed by serial entrepreneurs that focuses on assisting founders with its operational experience, network, trust, unique perspectives, and the capital. The team invests in early-stage tech start-ups that are focused on building the new digital platforms driven by the data network. BEENEXT aims to establish aplatform of founders, by the founders and for the founders across the globe, primarily in South East Asia, India and Japan. Since its establishment in 2015, the team has invested in over 180 companies globally. ## Aaron Kemmer - Type: Angel - Location: Clearwater, Florida, United States - Relevant deals: 2 - Stages: Seed, Pre-Seed - Focus: Apps, Gaming, FinTech A serial entrepreneur and advisor, Mr. Kemmer co-founded Made In Space when Singularity University offered the challenge of creating a project that would affect 1 billion people. Aaron’s belief is that off-world manufacturing will dramatically change the way we look at space exploration, commercialization and mission design today. He has workedwith several startup companies, including Heritage Cross, SUpost, Movis and YouTip. Aaron is an alumnus from the University of Florida and Singularity University and served as the Team Project Advisor for Singularity University and the Business Plan Advisor for New Space in 2012.Aaron’s publications include “3D Printing in Space: Enabling New Markets and Accelerating the Growth of Orbital Infrastructure,” which was featured at NASA’s Space Studies Institute 14th Space Manufacturing Conference in October 2010. ## Stripe - Type: VC Fund - Location: San Francisco, California, United States - Relevant deals: 2 - Stages: Seed, Series A, Series B - Focus: FinTech, Financial Services, Software Stripe is a global technology company that builds economic infrastructure for the Internet.Businesses of every size, from new startups to public companies like Salesforce and Facebook, use the company’s software to accept online payments and run complex global operations. The company combines economic infrastructure with a set of applications fornew business models like crowdfunding and marketplaces, fraud prevention, analytics, and more. Stripe navigates global regulatory uncertainty and partners closely with internet leaders like Apple, Google, Alipay, Tencent, Facebook, and Twitter to launch new capabilities.It was founded in 2010 by John and Patrick Collison and has its headquarters in San Francisco, California. ## Lisa Gokongwei - Type: Angel - Location: Mandaluyong, Cavite, Philippines - Relevant deals: 2 - Stages: Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed - Focus: FinTech, Payments, Internet Lisa Gokongwei-Cheng is a President at Summit Media. Attended Columbia University - Graduate School of Journalism. ## Beenos Partners - Type: VC Fund - Location: Tokyo, Tokyo, Japan - Relevant deals: 2 - Stages: Seed, Series A, Series B - Focus: E-Commerce, Internet, Mobile Beenos is a platform for startups. Our in-house team of entrepreneurs-in-residence and specialists help you get your ideas off the ground. We’re (the) experts in engineering, design, data science, and business management. We know how to launch a company in this ever changing IT industry, and we’d like to help establish and expand your present andfuture business.The company was founded in 1999 as NetPrice.com, a provider of eCommerce services. NetPrice.com established Beenos as an incubation program before ## 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. ## Broadhaven Capital Partners - Type: VC Fund - Location: New York, New York, United States - Relevant deals: 1 - Stages: Series A, Seed, Series B - Focus: Financial Services, FinTech, Software Broadhaven is an independent merchant bank advising and investing in financial services. ## Giulio Xiloyannis - Type: Angel - Location: Kuala Lumpur, Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia - Relevant deals: 1 - Stages: Seed - Focus: Apps, FinTech Giulio Xiloyannis is the Chief Commercial Officer of ZALORA, the largest online fashion retailer in SEA. Prior to ZALORA, he worked across a number of Rocket Internet Founded Venture in Italy, J.P Morgan and Rabobank. Giulio is an investor and Founding Investor for Omnilytics and an adviser for Musa, Taskomat and Edgar (Italy based ventures).Giulio as a pro-bono advisor for Florence based incubator Nana Bianca and Singapore based Antler as well as having collaborated with the Malaysian state sponsored incubator Magic. ## Crestone Venture Capital - Type: VC Fund - Location: London, England, United Kingdom - Relevant deals: 1 - Stages: Seed - Focus: SaaS, FinTech, Financial Services Crestone is a $200m growth fund focused on FinTech companies that target 1 billion new middle class people and 100 million new formal businesses in high growth Emerging Markets. ## Neal Cross - Type: Angel - Location: Perth, Western Australia, Australia - Relevant deals: 1 - Stages: Seed - Focus: FinTech, Finance, Education 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). ## 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. ## 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. ## ADQ - Type: VC Fund - Location: Abu Dhabi, Abu Dhabi, United Arab Emirates - Relevant deals: 1 - Stages: Private Equity, Series A, Series B - Focus: Information Technology, Software, Health Care ADQ is a holding company with a diverse portfolio of major enterprises covering key sectors of Abu Dhabi's economy, including utilities, tourism and hospitality, aviation, transportation, logistics, industry, real estate, media, healthcare, agribusiness, and financial services. ## Orange DAO - Type: VC Fund - Location: San Francisco, California, United States - Relevant deals: 1 - Stages: Pre-Seed, Seed, Private Equity - Focus: Cryptocurrency, Blockchain, Software A new tool that blends your everyday work apps into one. It's the all-in-one workspace for you and your team ## Parachain Ventures - Type: VC Fund - Relevant deals: 1 - Stages: Seed, Series A - Focus: Blockchain, Cryptocurrency, Financial Services Parachain Ventures is the investment branch of CryptoRank.io, a popular and well-respected analytics platform. ## Rizal Microbank - Type: VC Fund - Relevant deals: 1 - Stages: Seed - Focus: FinTech, Service Industry, Financial Services Rizal Microbank ## iSeed Ventures - Type: VC Fund - Location: San Francisco, California, United States - Relevant deals: 1 - Stages: Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed - Focus: Health Care, Software, Fitness iSeed is an early-stage investment company. They focus on consumer mobile technology with a keen interest in healthcare. iSeed is committed to partnering with the next generation of technology startups to grow a lasting and impactful company. ## Justin Mateen - Type: Angel - Relevant deals: 1 - Stages: Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed - Focus: Software, E-Commerce, Financial Services Justin Mateen is the Founder of Tinder, the world's largest dating platform. Founded in 2012, Tinder is the highest grossing app on Apple's app store since 2017 and was valued at over $40 Billion dollars in 2021. In 2021, Business Insider ranked Mateen as the best early stage investor in the US, placing him at the number 1 spot on thetop 100 list of US Seed Investors. In 2020, Forbes included Mateen on their list of the decade's top 10 tech entrepreneurs. Fast Company has listed him as one of the most creative people in business. ## Crypto.com - Type: VC Fund - Location: Singapore, Central Region, Singapore - Relevant deals: 1 - Stages: Seed, Series A - Focus: Blockchain, Cryptocurrency, Gaming Over 80 million users buy, sell, and trade Bitcoin, Ethereum, NFTs and more on Crypto.com. Join the World's leading crypto trading platform. ## Oak Drive ventures - Type: VC Fund - Location: Fort Bonifacio, Quezon City, Philippines - Relevant deals: 1 - Stages: Seed, Series B - Focus: CRM, FinTech, Organic Oak Drive ventures will provide management support to a growing stable of operating companies. It combines decades of operational and investment experience to create value across various industries. ## Tribe Capital - Type: VC Fund - Location: Menlo Park, California, United States - Relevant deals: 1 - Stages: Seed, Series A, Series B - Focus: Software, FinTech, Financial Services We are a $1.6B+ AUM venture capital firm focused on capturing a perpetual edge in venture and crypto using data science. ## John Dang - Type: Angel - Location: Manila, Manila, Philippines - Relevant deals: 1 - Stages: Seed, Convertible Note - Focus: Credit, Finance, Tourism John Dang is the Founder of ZipMatch. ## 500 Southeast Asia - Type: VC Fund - Location: Singapore, Central Region, Singapore - Relevant deals: 1 - Stages: Seed, Series D, Series A - Focus: Artificial Intelligence, E-Commerce, Automotive Started in 2010 with its flagship early-stage startup accelerator, 500 Global is the most active global venture capital firm known for its various funds and founder programs across the globe. The firm has grown to a family of over 23 funds and has invested in over 2400 companies internationally. ## Phoenix Holdings - Type: VC Fund - Relevant deals: 1 - Stages: Series A - Focus: Financial Services, Banking, FinTech Phoenix Holdings is an investment firm. ## Peter Thiel - Type: Angel - Location: San Francisco, California, United States - Relevant deals: 1 - Stages: Series A, Seed, Series B - Focus: Software, FinTech, Financial Services Peter Thiel Is The Member, Board of Directors At Facebook. Founder at Breakout Labs. ## Deep Blue Ventures - Type: VC Fund - Relevant deals: 1 - Focus: FinTech, Business Development, Small and Medium Businesses DeepBlue Ventures is a venture capital firm focusing on investment in middle to late-stage startups globally. It is dedicated to helping daring build companies. The firm is headquartered in Silicon Valley. ## 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. ## Bootstrapped Debt Financing - Type: Angel - Relevant deals: 1 - Stages: Pre-Seed, Seed - Focus: Software, Information Technology, E-Commerce Bootstrapped Debt Financing ## Patamar Capital - Type: VC Fund - Location: Singapore, Central Region, Singapore - Relevant deals: 1 - Stages: Series A, Series B - Focus: FinTech, Financial Services, Software Patamar Capital is Southeast Asia's leading impact-driven venture capital firm. Founded in 2011, Patamar invests in early-stage companies building sector-defining platforms that maximize positive impact and financial returns. ## Philippine Equity Partners - Type: VC Fund - Location: Taguig, Rizal, Philippines - Relevant deals: 1 - Stages: Seed - Focus: Financial Services, Professional Services Philippine Equity Partners is a venture capital and private equty firm. ## UniX - Type: VC Fund - Location: Cham, Zug, Switzerland - Relevant deals: 1 - Stages: Seed - Focus: Gaming, Blockchain, Cryptocurrency UniX launched in June 2021 with a different approach to gaming by combining the fun of gaming to help people in developing countries. ## Morningstar Ventures - Type: VC Fund - Location: Dubai, Dubai, United Arab Emirates - Relevant deals: 1 - Stages: Seed, Series A - Focus: Blockchain, Cryptocurrency, Gaming We are a proprietary investment firm focused on digital assets and blockchain technology, primarily focused on the Elrond Ecosystem. ## SBI Ventures - Type: VC Fund - Location: Singapore, Central Region, Singapore - Relevant deals: 1 - Stages: Seed - Focus: Financial Services, Professional Services SBI Ven Capital Pte. Ltd. is a private equity firm that invests in financial services and technology sectors across Asia ## Kennedy Ekezie-Joseph - Type: Angel - Relevant deals: 1 - Stages: Seed - Focus: Apps, FinTech Kennedy Ekezie-Joseph is the Co-Founder and Chief Executive Officer of Kippa. ## Accion - Type: VC Fund - Location: Cambridge, Massachusetts, United States - Relevant deals: 1 - Stages: Series A, Seed - Focus: FinTech, Financial Services, Credit Accion is a global nonprofit that gives people access to financial tools needed to improve lives. ## Razorpay - Type: VC Fund - Location: Bangalore, Karnataka, India - Relevant deals: 1 - Stages: Seed, Series A, Series D - Focus: FinTech, Financial Services, EdTech Online Payments India: Start Accepting Payments Instantly with Razorpay's Payment suite, which Supports Netbanking, Credit card & Debit Cards, UPI, etc. ## 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. ## January Capital - Type: VC Fund - Location: Singapore, Central Region, Singapore - Relevant deals: 1 - Stages: Seed, Series A, Series B - Focus: E-Commerce, FinTech, Information Technology January Capital believes that rapid digitalization will continue to occur across all industries over the next decade. This fundamental shift will enable one-of-a-kind possibilities for category-defining enterprises to emerge. They prioritise collaborating with founders who are developing technologies that allow such transformation. They invest fromthe beginning of a company's life cycle, but they may also provide ongoing assistance. They are looking for firms that were developed in or for the Asia-Pacific area. Analysts anticipate that certain themes will drive economic growth in this region over the next several decades. ## Jussi Salovaara - Type: Angel - Relevant deals: 1 - Stages: Pre-Seed, Seed - Focus: Apps, Retail, FinTech Jussi Salovaara - Co-founder and Managing Partner Asia @ Antler # 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