VC Fund
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Vickers Venture Partners is a Singapore-headquartered venture capital firm founded in 2005 by Finian Tan, a former DFJ ePlanet partner known for an early investment in Baidu. The firm has since built a global office network spanning Shanghai, Hong Kong, New York, San Diego, San Francisco/Silicon Valley, London, and Kuala Lumpur, and in December 2021 announced it had raised over US$250 million for a fund emphasizing deep-tech investments worldwide.
Vickers invests across life sciences, technology, media and telecommunications, consumer services, and financial services, with portfolio companies whose combined market value has been reported at more than US$100 billion. Notable investments and exits include Baidu, Focus Media Holding, Kongzhong Corporation, biotech company Samumed, and fintech infrastructure firm M-DAQ.
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Accelerator
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Y Combinator is the world's best-known startup accelerator, founded in March 2005 by Paul Graham, Jessica Livingston, Robert Tappan Morris, and Trevor Blackwell, and headquartered in San Francisco (having relocated from Mountain View in 2023). It is currently led by President and CEO Garry Tan (since January 2023) alongside Managing Partner Jared Friedman. YC runs four cohort batches a year, pairs each startup with a dedicated General Partner as advisor, and culminates in a Demo Day introducing companies to its investor network. Since inception it has funded over 5,668 companies with a combined reported valuation exceeding US$600 billion, including roughly 100 unicorns and 400+ companies valued above US$100 million.
No specific Philippine-founded or Manila-based YC alumnus company could be independently confirmed via any source accessible this session — an honest gap rather than an assumption that none exists, given YC's global, open, non-geography-restricted application process and its stated history of expanding outreach to dozens of countries. Its best-known portfolio spans Airbnb, Stripe, Coinbase, DoorDash, Dropbox, Reddit, Instacart, Twitch, and Whatnot.
💰 Check size: $500K–$1M
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