# Top 50 FinTech 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. ## 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/ ## 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. ## 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. ## 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. ## 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. ## 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. ## 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. ## 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. ## 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. ## 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 ## 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. ## 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. ## 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 ## 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. ## 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. ## Key Capital - Type: VC Fund - Location: Milan, Lombardia, Italy - Relevant deals: 1 - Stages: Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A - Focus: Internet, Apps, E-Commerce We are a venture incubator that wants to exploit the extraordinary human capital of the new digital entrepreneurship. From design to ready-to-market, up looking for new partners and capital, we create value along the entire continuum of mentoring: direct investment , skills qualified and specialized network support the growth of new businesses oftomorrow. With our deal flow , we are able to select innovative ideas with high potential with a business model that minimizes the investment risk and guarantee the success on the market. ## 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. ## 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. ## Kingsway Capital - Type: VC Fund - Location: London, England, United Kingdom - Relevant deals: 1 - Stages: Seed, Series B, Series A - Focus: Financial Services, FinTech, Cryptocurrency Kingsway Capital is a investment management firm. ## 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. ## 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. ## 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. ## 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. ## 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. ## 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. ## Rostin Javadi - Type: Angel - Relevant deals: 1 - Stages: Seed - Focus: Apps, FinTech Rostin Javadi is the COO at ZALORA Group. Rostin Javadi attended University of Cambridge. ## 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. ## 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 ## OKX Ventures - Type: VC Fund - Location: Victoria, Beau Vallon, Seychelles - Relevant deals: 1 - Stages: Seed, Series A - Focus: Blockchain, Cryptocurrency, FinTech OKX Ventures focus on the discoveries and investments in various aspects, including blockchain basic infrastructures, Layer2, DeFi, WEB3.0, NFT and Metaverse. ## 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. ## STRIVE - Type: VC Fund - Location: Tokyo, Tokyo, Japan - Relevant deals: 1 - Stages: Seed, Series A - Focus: Software, Internet, SaaS STRIVE focuses on investing in early-stage (Seed to Series A) internet and mobile companies. It seeks out companies in Japan, Southeast Asia, and India with top-notch management teams and strong market potential. It is not tied to strategic investments for GREE Inc. and leverages its pan-Asia expertise for guiding its portfolio in an engaged,hands-on role. ## Nordstar - Type: VC Fund - Location: London, England, United Kingdom - Relevant deals: 1 - Stages: Seed, Series A, Series B - Focus: E-Commerce, Financial Services, FinTech We help our partners accelerate their journeys to shape the future. ## 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. ## Bootstrapped Debt Financing - Type: Angel - Relevant deals: 1 - Stages: Pre-Seed, Seed - Focus: Software, Information Technology, E-Commerce Bootstrapped Debt Financing ## Markus Bruderer - Type: Angel - Relevant deals: 1 - Stages: Seed, Pre-Seed - Focus: Apps, Gaming, FinTech Markus Bruderer is the Partner at Antler. He attended University of St.Gallen. ## 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). ## 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. ## Phoenix Holdings - Type: VC Fund - Relevant deals: 1 - Stages: Series A - Focus: Financial Services, Banking, FinTech Phoenix Holdings is an investment firm. ## 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. ## 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. ## 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. ## 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. ## Rizal Microbank - Type: VC Fund - Relevant deals: 1 - Stages: Seed - Focus: FinTech, Service Industry, Financial Services Rizal Microbank ## Willy Arifin - Type: Angel - Location: Jakarta, Jakarta Raya, Indonesia - Relevant deals: 1 - Stages: Seed, Pre-Seed - Focus: Financial Services, B2B, Apps Will Arifin is a co-founder and chairman of KoinWorks. He has a dream to make financial inclusion soon to be happened in Indonesia. Through KoinWorks, he create products that makes everyone has the same chance to get financial access. ## 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. ## 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. # 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