Investors Directory

Greylock Partners is one of the oldest venture capital firms in the United States, founded in 1965 by Bill Elfers and Dan Gregory (later joined by Charlie Waite), originally based in Cambridge, Massachusetts. It opened its first Silicon Valley office in 1999 and relocated its main office to Menlo Park, California in 2009; its Israel operation was rebranded as an independent firm, 83North, in 2015. Greylock manages committed capital of over $3.5 billion, having raised a $1 billion 17th fund in 2023 and a $1.5 billion 18th fund in 2026. Current partners include David Sze, Reid Hoffman, and Mustafa Suleyman. The firm concentrates on early-stage investing in consumer and enterprise software, with a portfolio built over six decades that includes Facebook, LinkedIn, Airbnb, Flickr, and Digg. No Philippines-specific investment activity or presence was found.

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.

JG Digital Equity Ventures (JGDEV) is the corporate venture capital arm of JG Summit Holdings, one of the Philippines' largest diversified conglomerates, spanning food, real estate, air transportation, banking, and petrochemicals. It was launched in 2019 to formalize the group's approach to digital and startup investment. Its confirmed portfolio spans Series A/B-stage Philippine and regional technology companies, including sari-sari store enabler GrowSari, consumer lending platform Cashalo, receipt-scanning rewards platform Snapcart, and Philippine digital bank GoTyme Bank (via a stake in parent Tyme Group). It has also backed India-based HR technology platform Darwinbox, reflecting a mandate broader than the Philippines alone.

Khosla Ventures is a Menlo Park, California-based venture capital firm founded in 2004 by Vinod Khosla, a former general partner at Kleiner Perkins and co-founder of Sun Microsystems. As of October 2021 the firm managed approximately $15 billion in assets, and by November 2023 it had closed $3.1 billion across three new funds. It maintains dedicated seed vehicles alongside larger growth-focused funds, investing from seed through late stage. Khosla Ventures targets internet, computing, mobile technology, artificial intelligence, financial services, agriculture, healthcare, and clean technology. Its portfolio includes DoorDash (invested 2013, $72B IPO valuation in 2020), Stripe, Square, Instacart (seed investment 2012, $11B market cap at 2020 IPO), Affirm, GitLab, and OpenAI (Khosla was OpenAI's first VC investor, in 2018). It has also made notable early climate/deep-tech bets in Commonwealth Fusion Systems and QuantumScape, and raised a $405 million vehicle in October 2024 specifically for a further OpenAI investment. 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.

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.

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.

A sourcing caveat up front: Pavilion Capital's own website (pavcap.com) is a fully client-side-rendered single-page application that returned no extractable server-side content across its homepage, about, and portfolio pages this session — every fact in this profile comes from its LinkedIn presence and a third-party investor database rather than the firm's own site directly. Pavilion Capital is confirmed via LinkedIn (handle: pavcap, Singapore-registered) to be an investment firm affiliated with Temasek Holdings, Singapore's state investment company, with a reported headcount in the 51-200 employee range. An exact founding year could not be independently confirmed this session. Third-party sourcing (CompassList) describes Pavilion Capital as investing in both U.S. and Asian companies and names M17 Entertainment (Asian social-media/livestreaming holding company), Warung Pintar (Indonesian smart-retail-kiosk network), and Fore Coffee (Indonesian coffee delivery chain) among its portfolio — though this could not be cross-verified against a second independent source this session. No Philippine investment or Philippine-market activity was found in any source checked.

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.