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Kleiner Perkins is one of Silicon Valley's oldest and most storied venture capital firms, founded in 1972 by Eugene Kleiner, Thomas Perkins, Frank J. Caufield, and Brook Byers. It is headquartered in Menlo Park, California, with additional offices in San Francisco and Shanghai, China. Longtime partner John Doerr currently serves as chairman. As of 2026 the firm manages roughly $21 billion in assets across 22 venture funds and six growth funds; by 1996 it had already funded around 260 companies totaling $880 million. Kleiner Perkins invests across seed, early, and growth stages, concentrated in consumer, enterprise, hard tech, and fintech, with an expanded emphasis in recent years on life sciences and artificial intelligence. Its historic investments include Google ($12 million in 1999), Amazon.com (an $8 million investment that generated over $1 billion in returns), and Netscape; more recent notable bets include Anthropic, Waymo, and Applied Intuition. No Philippines-specific investment activity or presence was found.

Leave a Nest Capital is the venture investment arm of Leave a Nest Co., Ltd. (known in Japan as リバネス), a Tokyo-headquartered "knowledge manufacturing" company founded in 2002 that describes its mission as connecting science and technology to real-world problem-solving. The parent company operates seven development divisions spanning education, human resources, R&D, startups, regional development, manufacturing, and strategy, and is best known internationally for TECH PLANTER, a global deep-tech startup pitch and acceleration program it runs across multiple countries. Leave a Nest Capital's own exact founding year, total fund size, and named fund managers were not disclosed in the sources reviewed for this profile. Leave a Nest has a confirmed, genuine presence in the Philippines: regional business press has reported the firm running a TECH PLANTER startup pitch contest in the Philippines and disclosed plans to open a local branch office in Metro Manila, alongside stated expansion into Thailand and Taiwan — evidence of real, ongoing Southeast Asian activity rather than a purely Japan-domestic operation. The firm's investment activity is tightly linked to its TECH PLANTER program, which functions as a deep-tech deal-sourcing and founder-development pipeline feeding into direct investments by Leave a Nest Capital.

Plug and Play Philippines is the local National Startup Accelerator Program run under a formal, two-year partnership between Plug and Play, the Silicon Valley-founded global innovation platform active since 2006 and connected to over 35,000 startups and 500-plus corporate partners worldwide, and the Philippine Department of Trade and Industry (DTI), publicly launched in Makati in April 2024. Rather than an independent Philippine-founded fund, it exists because the government sought out a global accelerator brand to run a formal local program, targeting roughly 40 startups a year across two six-month cohorts, focused on AI, cybersecurity, software development, animation, agritech, and food technology. DFNN Inc., a listed Philippine tech company, joined as a private-sector partner, testing incubating companies' products and contributing seed funding alongside DTI-referred sponsors. Participants receive mentorship and limited direct equity funding, plus access to Plug and Play's global network, reported by the firm at roughly billion in accessible capital — a genuinely different value proposition from a fund writing its own large checks, stated plainly here rather than oversold.

Rocketship.vc is a data-science-driven venture capital firm co-founded by serial entrepreneurs Venky Harinarayan and Anand Rajaraman, who previously co-founded Junglee (acquired by Amazon) and Kosmix (acquired by Walmart, later becoming @WalmartLabs). Its leadership also includes Managing Partners Madhu Shalini Iyer, former Chief Data Officer of Gojek, and Sailesh Ramakrishnan, co-founder of LocBox. The firm describes itself as remote-first, with a team drawing on backgrounds in data mining research (having co-authored what it describes as the most-downloaded data mining textbook) and prior work on NASA's Mars Exploration Rover mission. (Note: this session could not independently confirm Rocketship.vc's exact founding year through a live, fetchable source — stated honestly rather than guessed.) The firm has invested in more than 70 companies across at least 14 countries, spanning India (Apna, FamPay, Khatabook, Quizizz, NoBroker), Africa (Chipper Cash, Kippa), the Middle East (Sary, Qashio), Latin America (Trocafone), Indonesia (BukuWarung, Kitalulus), and the U.S. (early investments in Facebook and Lyft), with several exits including Paperspace, Locus, and Later.

SIG Venture Capital is the direct-investment venture arm of Susquehanna International Group (SIG), a privately-held quantitative trading and financial services firm founded in May 1987 by Jeff Yass, Arthur Dantchik, and a group of co-founders, headquartered in Bala Cynwyd, Pennsylvania. SIG is one of the world's largest privately-held financial services firms, with over $868 billion in total assets and 2024 revenue of $7.2 billion, built primarily on market-making, institutional brokerage, and proprietary trading in equities, fixed income, and derivatives. Its venture arm — often branded SIG Asia VC given its long regional history — has been actively investing in startups for more than 15 years, expanding into China in 2005 and Japan in 2014, and operates from SIG's global office network spanning the US, Europe (Dublin, London), and Asia (Shanghai, Beijing, Hong Kong, Tokyo). A distinguishing feature of SIG Venture Capital is that it invests its own permanent capital rather than raising and deploying a traditional fund with a fixed lifecycle — this lets it commit to portfolio companies over long, flexible time horizons across deal types and stages from Series A through pre-IPO. The team of 20+ investment and operations professionals has backed more than 50 companies with a combined reported revenue exceeding $2.5 billion and combined EBITDA over $350 million. Its best-known investment is ByteDance, where SIG made an initial $5 million bet in 2012 that had grown to a stake worth more than $15 billion by 2020; other confirmed investments include enterprise fintech company HighRadius, Indian grocery startup Otipy (which SIG led a $10.2 million Series A for), Chinese game-development platform MetaApp (SIG led a $100 million round), and Indonesian dental-care platform Satu Dental (a since-exited position).

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Thrive Capital is a New York-based venture capital and growth-equity firm founded in 2009 by Joshua Kushner, who was 24 years old at the time. Starting with a first fund of just $5 million, the firm has grown into one of the most prominent technology investors of its generation — assets under management were reported at over $50 billion as of 2026, with its tenth flagship fund alone targeting more than $10 billion. Unlike many venture firms that spread capital across a large number of bets, Thrive has been known for concentrating conviction in a relatively small number of companies, aiming to build deep, multi-round relationships with founders. Former Harvard Business School dean Nitin Nohria joined as the firm's first executive chair in 2022. Thrive was an early investor in Instagram, GitHub, Spotify, and Twitch, and its more recent portfolio spans Stripe, Databricks, OpenAI, and A24 — reflecting a broad mandate across internet, software, and AI-enabled businesses rather than a single narrow sector.