About 917Ventures
917Ventures (legal entity: Globe Capital Venture Holdings, Inc.) is Globe Telecom's venture-building arm, launched in 2019 and wholly owned by Globe. Rather than investing in external startups the way a typical fund does, it operates primarily as a venture studio — conceiving, building, and launching new digital businesses from within the Globe ecosystem — and has launched roughly 20 ventures to date.
Confirmed ventures include GInsure, a digital micro-insurance platform; GCredit, a digital credit line embedded in the GCash app; and AdSpark, a digital advertising and marketing technology company. This venture-builder model is a meaningfully different mechanism from a typical external-investment fund, and is described honestly here as such.
Investment Thesis
917Ventures' mandate is to build and scale digital ventures that serve Filipino consumers, typically integrated with Globe's telecom distribution, GCash's financial rails, or Globe's broader retail and data infrastructure — insurance, consumer credit, and digital advertising are the clearest examples among its confirmed ventures. Because it builds internally rather than sourcing external deal flow the way a fund does, its practical relevance to outside founders seeking a check is more limited than a typical corporate VC's — it is included here as a real, active part of the Philippine startup-funding and venture-building landscape, not as an open door for external pitches.
Portfolio Companies
GInsure, GCredit, AdSpark