Kickstart Ventures is the corporate venture capital arm of Globe Telecom, founded in 2012 and headquartered in Makati. Over more than a decade, its team has participated in dozens of startup funding rounds across multiple countries, building a portfolio of around 70 local and international companies.

What differentiates Kickstart from a typical VC fund is its ability to plug portfolio startups directly into the Globe and Ayala corporate ecosystems — introducing them to retail networks, logistics infrastructure, or telecom distribution that would otherwise take years for an early-stage company to build on its own.

Its reported portfolio includes companies such as Kumu, Coins.ph, Pickup Coffee, and edamama, spanning fintech, e-commerce, and consumer sectors.

🇵🇭 Philippine Example

Kickstart connected Pickup Coffee with Ayala Malls, helping it expand rapidly into new branches, and vouched for SariSuki's use of Air21 (AC Logistics Holdings') delivery backhaul — a real, reported example of Kickstart's corporate-network model creating tangible operational advantages for its portfolio companies.

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