# Top 35 Software Angel Investors in Philippines in May 2026

## 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.

## Miguel Encarnacion
- Type: Angel
- Location: Berlin, Berlin, Germany
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed
- Focus: Artificial Intelligence, Software, Information Technology

Miguel Encarnacion

## Ryon Nixon
- Type: Angel
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Seed
- Focus: Financial Services, Cryptocurrency, FinTech

Ryon Nixon - General Counsel @ PrestigeXP

## Michael Dargani
- Type: Angel
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Series A
- Focus: EdTech, Training, Education

Michael Dargani

## Nina Teng
- Type: Angel
- Location: London, England, United Kingdom
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Seed
- Focus: Gaming, Software, Cryptocurrency

Nina Teng is a helping startups grow. Investor & doctoral researcher.

## Moses Lo
- Type: Angel
- Location: San Francisco, California, United States
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Pre-Seed, Series B, Series C
- Focus: Financial Services, Information Technology, Banking

Founder and CEO at Xendit

## 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.

## Jitendra Gupta
- Type: Angel
- Location: Mumbai, Maharashtra, India
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Seed, Series A, Angel
- Focus: Financial Services, FinTech, Payments

Jitendra Gupta is the Founder of Jupiter.

## Amrish Rau
- Type: Angel
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed
- Focus: Financial Services, FinTech, Payments

Amrish Rau is the CEO of Pine Labs.

## Lisa Gokongwei
- Type: Angel
- Location: Mandaluyong, Cavite, Philippines
- Relevant deals: 1
- 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.

## Ryan Selkis
- Type: Angel
- Location: New York, New York, United States
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed
- Focus: Blockchain, Cryptocurrency, Financial Services

Ryan Selkis is the Founder and Chief Executive Officer of Messari. He was the Managing Director CoinDesk before that. After discovering bitcoin, Ryan became obsessed with the technology’s social and economic potential. That obsession, along with finance and startup experience, helps him lead DCG's investing efforts.

## Julia Lipton
- Type: Angel
- Location: San Francisco Bay Area, California, United States
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A
- Focus: Software, Internet, Cryptocurrency

Julia Lipton is a Founder at Awesome People Ventures. She attended the University of Southern California - Marshall School of Business.

## Paco Sandejas
- Type: Angel
- Relevant deals: 1
- 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.

## Peter Hoang
- Type: Angel
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Seed, Pre-Seed
- Focus: Gaming, FinTech, Software

Peter Hoang is the Founder & CEO of Finblox - the easiest place to earn yield on the crypto assets and grow your wealth.He previously Co-Founded Gotrade - a commission-free stock trading platform enabling anyone in the world to invest in fractional US stocks. He is also a former Founder | Product Designer & App Developer at Space JumpStudios and Co-Founder of VietLinked Global Group.

## 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.

## 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.

## Francis Plaza
- Type: Angel
- Location: Makati, Manila, Philippines
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Pre-Seed, Angel, Equity Crowdfunding
- Focus: Education, Software, Gaming

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

## Joe Maristela
- Type: Angel
- Location: Makati, Manila, Philippines
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Seed, Angel
- Focus: SaaS, FinTech, Software

Chairman at JM III Holdings

## Subir Lohani
- Type: Angel
- Location: Jakarta, Jakarta Raya, Indonesia
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Seed
- Focus: Apps, FinTech

Subir Lohani is Managing Director of Carmudi Indonesia, a Rocket Internet backed firm and the fastest growing car classifies platform in emerging markets. Subir was formally an invesment banker working out oSingapore in the capital markets with a specialty of covering corporate and sovereign clients in South and South East Asia. Carmudi.com.ph isthe #1 vehicle marketplace in Indonesia and backed by Rocket Internet. They provide the highest quality cars, motorcycles and commercial vehicles online to make the search for your dream vehicle accessible with a few clicks or taps. Available on Android and iOS.

## Constantin Robertz
- Type: Angel
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Pre-Seed
- Focus: Apps, FinTech, Marketing

Constantin is managing director for Zalora in the Philippines. He has been in the Philippines since 2013 and previously worked with Rocket Internet in Global Venture Development, building its e-commerce ventures around the world in different functions, working with Zalando (Europe's #1 e-commerce company), Lamoda (Russia's leader infashion e-commerce), and Zalora (Asia's #1 online fashion destination). Before Rocket Internet, Constantin co-founded a personalised online shopping mall in Germany. He studied business administration in St.Gallen (Switzerland) and Singapore.

## Brian Cu
- Type: Angel
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Pre-Seed, Seed
- Focus: B2B, Software, Recruiting

Brian Cu

## 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.

## Paulo Campos
- Type: Angel
- Location: Manila, Manila, Philippines
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Seed, Pre-Seed
- Focus: Apps, FinTech, Logistics

Paulo Campos

## Jussi Salovaara
- Type: Angel
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Pre-Seed, Seed
- Focus: Apps, Retail, FinTech

Jussi Salovaara - Co-founder and Managing Partner Asia @ Antler

## Yaw Yeo
- Type: Angel
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Seed
- Focus: Gaming, Software, Cryptocurrency

Yaw Yeo is the Extended Leadership Team at XA Network. Yaw Yeo attended Stanford University.

## 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.

## Blaine Vess
- Type: Angel
- Location: Los Angeles, California, United States
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A
- Focus: Software, FinTech, Financial Services

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

## Richard Juan
- Type: Angel
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Pre-Seed
- Focus: Apps, FinTech

Richard Juan

## Ray Alimurung
- Type: Angel
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Seed
- Focus: Gaming, Software, Cryptocurrency

Ray Alimurung is a CEO (Philippines) at Lazada Group.

## Chris Hermida
- Type: Angel
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Seed, Series A
- Focus: Apps, Software, Blockchain

Chris Hermida

## 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.

## Luis Sia
- Type: Angel
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Pre-Seed
- Focus: Apps, SaaS, Beauty

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

## Jayson Dolorito
- Type: Angel
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Seed
- Focus: Sales, Software, Marketing

Jayson Dolorito

## Tamir Triguboff
- Type: Angel
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Seed
- Focus: Software, Product Management

Tamir Triguboff

## 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.

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