# Top 50 Software Startup Investors in Philippines in May 2026

## Kickstart Ventures
- Type: VC Fund
- Location: Makati, Manila, Philippines
- Relevant deals: 5
- 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: 5
- 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.

## KSR Ventures
- Type: VC Fund
- Relevant deals: 3
- Stages: Series A
- Focus: EdTech, Training, Education

An Investment Firm.

## French Partners
- Type: VC Fund
- Location: Geneva, Geneve, Switzerland
- Relevant deals: 3
- Stages: Seed, Series A, Series B
- Focus: E-Commerce, Software, Payments

French Partners is the first co-investment club dedicated to qualified investors wishing to accompany and finance companies led locally by French entrepreneurs. French Partners targets start-ups and growing SMEs with revenues of up to several tens of millions of euros, who already have or wish to accelerate their international presence, as well asinnovative investment funds. French Partners invests from €1 million to €5 million, often on a minority basis, alone or in co-investment, in the capital of companies founded and managed by french entrepreneurs internationally.

## Buko Ventures
- Type: VC Fund
- Relevant deals: 3
- Stages: Pre-Seed, Seed
- Focus: Software, Health Care, Gaming

Value-add angel funding for Philippines startup founders.

## BEENEXT
- Type: VC Fund
- Location: Singapore, Central Region, Singapore
- Relevant deals: 2
- 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.

## Wavemaker Partners
- Type: VC Fund
- Location: Singapore, Central Region, Singapore
- Relevant deals: 2
- 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.

## First Asia Venture Capital
- Type: VC Fund
- Relevant deals: 2
- Stages: Seed, Series A
- Focus: SaaS, EdTech, Software

First Asia Venture Capital Inc. (First Asia) is a venture capital company involved in a number of Philippine-based businesses.

## Investible
- Type: VC Fund
- Location: Sydney, New South Wales, Australia
- Relevant deals: 2
- Stages: Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed
- Focus: Software, E-Commerce, Information Technology

Investible is an early-stage venture capital firm backing the visionaries advancing humanity through technology in Australia, New Zealand, Southeast Asia and globally.

## Mustard Seed
- Type: VC Fund
- Location: London, England, United Kingdom
- Relevant deals: 2
- Stages: Seed, Series A
- Focus: Food and Beverage, Software, Medical

Mustard Seed enables the creation and evolution of world-class businesses that generate positive and sustainable outcomes. They believe that solving big social and environmental problems drives commercial success in the long run. They seek scalable solutions to gaps currently left unfilled by government and industry in the areas of economicinclusion, education, environmental sustainability, health, and family and community.Mustard Seed invests in and incubates socially and environmentally impactful start-ups. They connect a dynamic and influential network of global members with exceptional entrepreneurial talent across the world. They also develop bespoke impact measurement frameworks and support established companies to align profit and impact through tailored strategies and effective deployment of their resources.Mustard Seed was co-founded by Alex Pitt and Henry Wigan, first classmates at the London School of Economics and later colleagues at Goldman Sachs. In 2013 Henry and Alex observed a rising appetite for socially-minded entrepreneurship among the world’s most talented graduates. They also observed a critical lack of capital to adequately meet this need. They started Mustard Seed to bridge the gap.

## 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.

## Saison Capital
- Type: VC Fund
- Location: Singapore, Central Region, Singapore
- Relevant deals: 2
- 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.

## Collab+Currency
- Type: VC Fund
- Location: Eugene, Oregon, United States
- Relevant deals: 2
- Stages: Seed, Series A
- Focus: Blockchain, Cryptocurrency, Software

Collab+Currency is a crypto-focused venture fund that backs early-stage projects developing the next generation of financial infrastructure, culture, and human organization.

## Alternate Ventures
- Type: VC Fund
- Location: New Castle, Delaware, United States
- Relevant deals: 2
- Stages: Series A, Series B
- Focus: EdTech, Fitness, Training

Alternate Ventures is an investment firm

## Volt Capital
- Type: VC Fund
- Location: San Francisco, California, United States
- Relevant deals: 2
- Stages: Seed, Series A
- Focus: Cryptocurrency, Information Technology, Blockchain

Volt Capital is a digital financial platform. They provide services for market cycles, ecosystems, and networks. Their customers' inquiries are addressed through phone, email, and online applications.

## Lorinet Foundation
- Type: VC Fund
- Location: Nassau, New Providence, Bahamas
- Relevant deals: 2
- Stages: Series A
- Focus: EdTech, Training, Education

Lorinet Foundation is to support pioneering, impactful, and sustainable initiatives to promote education, employment, and access to clean water and energy for vulnerable communities in Mongolia, South East Asia, and France.

## 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

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

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

## A.Partners
- Type: VC Fund
- Location: Moscow, Moscow City, Russian Federation
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A
- Focus: Education, Mobile Apps, Health Care

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.

## 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.

## 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.

## 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.

## Main Sequence Ventures
- Type: VC Fund
- Location: Sydney, New South Wales, Australia
- Relevant deals: 1
- 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.

## Gobi Partners
- Type: VC Fund
- Location: Kuala Lumpur, Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia
- Relevant deals: 1
- 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.

## Delphi Digital
- Type: VC Fund
- Location: New York, New York, United States
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Seed, Series A
- Focus: Blockchain, Gaming, Cryptocurrency

Delphi Digital is a leading cryptocurrency research firm, providing cutting-edge insights and updates to a community of over 30,000 investors and venture firms.

## Jump Capital
- Type: VC Fund
- Location: Chicago, Illinois, United States
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Seed, Series A, Series B
- Focus: Blockchain, Software, Financial Services

Jump Capital is a thesis-led venture investor specializing in scalable software opportunities in fintech, crypto, IT and data infrastructure, the future of commerce, digital media, and vertical SaaS solutions. In addition to capital, Jump provides advocacy and support for entrepreneurs, complemented with institutional-level resources.

## Multicoin Capital
- Type: VC Fund
- Location: Austin, Texas, United States
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Seed, Series A
- Focus: Blockchain, Cryptocurrency, Software

Multicoin Capital is a thesis-driven investment firm that invests in cryptocurrencies, tokens, and blockchain companies reshaping trillion-dollar markets. 

## 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.

## Sinowisdom
- Type: VC Fund
- Location: Hangzhou, Zhejiang, China
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Series A, Series B, Angel
- Focus: Manufacturing, Health Care, Software

Zhe Jiang Huarui Investment Management Limited, founded in 2002, is a Chinese domestic private investment venture capital management agency.

## 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.

## Respondent Inc.
- Type: VC Fund
- Location: New York, New York, United States
- Relevant deals: 1

Find participants for surveys, user interviews and focus groups from our pool of 2M+ verified professionals. Respondent is affordable & simplifies research ops.

## 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.

## 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.

## 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.

## Gentree Fund
- Type: VC Fund
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Seed, Series A
- Focus: Retail, Food and Beverage, E-Commerce

Gentree Fund is a VC Fund for Philippine startups that invests in early and growth stage, providing startup funding and key connections of Sy family principals.

## 6th Man Ventures
- Type: VC Fund
- Location: New York, New York, United States
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Seed, Series A
- Focus: Blockchain, Cryptocurrency, Software

6th Man Ventures is an early stage crypto VC firm investing in web3 applications & infrastructure6MV was born from a love of web3 in practice and principle, founded and run by a group who both see the potential and actively work to bring projects to life every day. That makes us incredible partners to have on your journey.6th Man Ventureswas established in March 2021 in New York, United States.

## 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.

## 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.

## Spiral Ventures
- Type: VC Fund
- Location: Singapore, Central Region, Singapore
- Relevant deals: 1
- 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/

## Point72 Ventures
- Type: VC Fund
- Location: New York, New York, United States
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Series A, Seed, Series B
- Focus: Software, Financial Services, FinTech

Backed by Steven A. Cohen, our venture capital investing firm backs fintech, artificial intelligence and enterprise startups from seed stage to IPO.

## Narra Venture Capital
- Type: VC Fund
- Location: Manila, Manila, Philippines
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Series B, Seed, Series A
- Focus: Enterprise Software, Information Technology, Apps

Everything You Need to Succeed on Mobile

## 8186 Capital
- Type: VC Fund
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Seed
- Focus: Blockchain, Apps, Gaming

81/86 Capital is a token firm based out of Shanghai investing in early stage Blockchain projects.

## PDAX | Philippine Digital Asset Exchange
- Type: VC Fund
- Location: Manila, Manila, Philippines
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Seed
- Focus: Gaming, Software, Cryptocurrency

PDAX is the Philippines' leading homegrown cryptocurrency exchange, supervised by the Bangko Sentral ng Pilipinas. 

## 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.

## 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.

## Xendit
- Type: VC Fund
- Location: Jakarta, Jakarta Raya, Indonesia
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Series A, Corporate Round, Seed
- Focus: E-Commerce, Software, Information Technology

Xendit is the best and most secure online payment gateway in the SEA, helping your business accept and send local & international payments.

## Orange DAO
- Type: VC Fund
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A
- Focus: Cryptocurrency, Blockchain, Software

Orange DAO

## Eucalyptus
- Type: VC Fund
- Location: Haymarket, New South Wales, Australia
- Relevant deals: 1

We dream, build and run digital healthcare companies. Our mission is to build deep, seamless models of care that put the patient first. Based in Sydney and founded in 2019.

## 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.

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

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

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