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Insight Partners is a large venture capital and growth-equity firm founded in 1995 by Jeff Horing and Jerry Murdock. It is headquartered in New York City, with additional offices in London, Tel Aviv, and Palo Alto, and employs over 600 people. As of April 2025, the firm managed approximately $90 billion in assets. It raised $20 billion for its twelfth flagship fund in February 2022 (more than double its prior fund's size) and an additional $12.5 billion across its thirteenth flagship fund and a structured-equity vehicle in January 2025. Insight specializes in software and internet businesses, known for a heavily outbound, analyst-driven sourcing model backed by internal portfolio-support teams (ScaleUp). As of June 2025 it had invested in over 875 companies, including OpenAI, Databricks, Wiz Inc., Anthropic, Udemy, Shopify, and Monday.com. No Philippines-specific investment activity was confirmed from available sources.

IVP (Institutional Venture Partners) was founded in 1980 by Reid W. Dennis, who began his investment career in 1952 and had earlier founded the predecessor firm, Institutional Venture Associates, in 1974 with backing from American Express. IVP is headquartered in Menlo Park, California, with additional offices in San Francisco and London (opened August 2023). The firm currently manages approximately $7.0 billion in assets, with its most recent fund, Fund XVIII, raising $1.6 billion in 2024. IVP focuses on expansion- and late-stage technology companies, with general partner Jules Maltz describing its strategy as targeting "the 10 to 12 fastest growing, most prominent late stage tech companies each year." Over nearly five decades the firm has invested in roughly 200 companies and facilitated around 85 IPOs (as of 2008), with a portfolio spanning Seagate, Netflix, Twitter, Dropbox, Slack, Coinbase, and CrowdStrike, plus more recent European investments including Wise, UiPath, DeepL, and MySQL. No Philippines-specific investment activity was confirmed from available sources.

Kickstart Ventures is the corporate venture capital arm of Globe Telecom, founded in 2012 and headquartered in Makati. It is the Philippines' largest corporate VC by track record, having participated in dozens of funding rounds across multiple countries and built a portfolio of roughly 70 local and international companies. Kickstart also advises the Ayala Corporation Technology Innovation Venture (ACTIVE) Fund. Its core differentiator is direct access to the Globe and Ayala corporate ecosystems — retail networks, logistics infrastructure, and telecom distribution — that it can plug portfolio startups into directly, rather than acting purely as a capital provider.

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.

Lightspeed Venture Partners is a global venture capital firm founded in 2000 by four Stanford graduates — Barry Eggers, Christopher Schaepe, Ravi Mhatre, and Peter Nieh — who had previously worked together at Weiss, Peck & Greer. Headquartered in Menlo Park, California, the firm has grown to eleven offices across North America, Europe, and Asia-Pacific, including San Francisco, New York, Tel Aviv, New Delhi, Bangalore, Mumbai, Singapore, London, Paris, and Berlin. Reported assets under management range from roughly $35 billion (2023) to $50 billion depending on the source, and the firm raised $7.1 billion across multiple funds in 2022 alone. Lightspeed invests across seed, early, and growth stages in enterprise software, fintech, consumer technology, and healthcare. Notable investments include Snapchat (early investor), Nest (acquired by Google for $3.2 billion), MuleSoft (acquired by Salesforce for $6.5 billion), Nutanix, Affirm, and Guardant Health. The firm maintains an active Singapore office as part of its Asia-Pacific presence, though no Philippines-specific investment activity was confirmed from available sources.

New Enterprise Associates (NEA) is one of the world's largest venture capital firms, founded in 1977 by C. Richard Kramlich, Charles Newhall III, and Frank Bonsal Jr. It is headquartered in Menlo Park, California, with additional U.S. offices in Timonium, Maryland and New York City, and an international presence spanning London, Mumbai, Bangalore, Beijing, and Shanghai. The firm is currently led by Scott Sandell as Executive Chairman, with Tony Florence and Mohamad Makhzoumi as Co-CEOs. NEA manages approximately $25 billion in committed capital as of 2023. Its funds have grown from an initial $16 million to its sixteenth fund, which closed at $3.3 billion in 2017. Since its founding, NEA has backed nearly 1,000 companies across technology and healthcare, generating over 650 liquidity events including more than 250 IPOs and 300+ acquisitions. Recent notable investments include Databricks, Acadia Pharmaceuticals, Amicus Therapeutics, Clovis Oncology, and Tesaro. No Philippines-specific investment activity was confirmed from available sources, though NEA does have an active China and India presence.

Peak XV Partners began in 2006 as Sequoia Capital India before later expanding to cover Southeast Asia as well. In June 2023, Sequoia Capital announced a global restructuring — citing the difficulty of running a decentralized worldwide investment business amid geopolitical tensions — that split the firm into three fully independent entities: Sequoia Capital (retaining the name, focused on the U.S. and Europe), HongShan (the China business, led by Neil Shen), and the India/Southeast Asia business, which rebranded as Peak XV Partners and became a genuinely separate, standalone firm (with the full separation completing by March 2024). Peak XV's leadership includes Shailendra Singh, GV Ravishankar, Mohit Bhatnagar, and Rajan Anandan. As of its own current disclosures, Peak XV manages over $10 billion in assets under management across more than 450 portfolio investments, with 36 IPOs across 5 countries to date, and maintains offices in the United States, India, Singapore, and the UAE. Its portfolio includes Zomato, Meesho, OYO Rooms, BlinkIt, Razorpay, CRED, Groww, Pine Labs, and Southeast Asian companies GoTo Group and Kopi Kenangan.

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.

Tiger Global Management is a New York City-based investment firm (Solow Building, 9 West 57th Street) founded in March 2001 by Chase Coleman III, a former Tiger Management analyst and protege of Julian Robertson who received over $25 million in seed capital to launch the fund as one of the original "Tiger Cubs." As of May 2024 the firm managed approximately $55.9 billion in assets with 162 employees. Tiger Global runs two roughly equally sized strategies: public equities (long-short hedge funds investing in publicly traded companies) and private equity/venture capital (historically led by Scott Shleifer until his departure in November 2023). It focuses on internet, software, consumer, and financial-technology companies, typically concentrating on later, growth-stage private rounds, and has invested in Facebook, LinkedIn, Stripe, Coinbase, Spotify, ByteDance, Nubank, and SenseTime. After severe losses in 2022 (its hedge fund declined roughly 52%), the firm rebounded with about 24% returns in 2024 alongside a broader recovery in technology stocks. No Philippines-specific investment activity was confirmed from available sources.

Vertex Ventures is the venture capital brand of Vertex Holdings, a Singapore-headquartered investment holding company established over 30 years ago as a venture arm connected to Temasek. Rather than operating as a single fund, Vertex is structured as a network of seven independently-managed regional and sector partnerships — Vertex Ventures US, Vertex Ventures Israel, Vertex Ventures China, Vertex Ventures Southeast Asia & India, Vertex Ventures Japan, Vertex Ventures HC (healthcare), and Vertex Growth — collectively managing roughly US$6.8 billion in assets with more than 100 investment professionals globally and over 300 active portfolio companies. The entity most directly relevant to Southeast Asia, Vertex Ventures Southeast Asia & India, is led by managing partners Kee Lock Chua, Joo Hock Chua, and Ben Mathias, is headquartered at Raffles City Tower in Singapore, and manages approximately US$1.5 billion. It has backed more than 90 companies including regional ride-hailing and delivery giant Grab, alongside other network-wide portfolio companies such as CyberArk, NIUM (formerly Instarem), Waze, and Desktop Metal.