Investors Directory

Future Now Ventures is an independent, Makati-based early and growth-stage venture capital firm founded in 2014 by John Orrock. It has made 32 investments to date, with one portfolio company reaching IPO and four acquired — a track record that predates much of the Philippines' recent startup-funding wave. Confirmed portfolio includes AutoDeal, an online car marketplace; HR and payroll platform Salarium, which the firm backed in 2016 (Salarium later shut down in 2023, a real, honestly-disclosed outcome rather than an ongoing success); recruitment platform Kalibrr; and flexible workspace marketplace FlySpaces.

Gentree Fund is the venture capital vehicle of the Sy family, the family behind the SM Group of Companies, operating under the Sy Family Office and led by third-generation family members. It began with roughly $40 million initially allocated and, per Nikkei Asia reporting, has been raising a larger vehicle in the $120-150 million range. Confirmed portfolio includes online baby and maternity marketplace edamama, Y Combinator-backed payments company NextPay, enterprise software firm Mosaic Solutions, supply-chain fintech AQWire, livestreaming platform Kumu (a startup already tracked in this site's own Startups directory), and India-based mobile esports platform Mobile Premier League.

Gobi Partners is a Pan-Asian venture capital firm founded in 2002, with roughly US$1.5-1.6 billion in assets under management and investments in more than 350 startups across 15+ Asian markets, including several unicorns. In the Philippines, Gobi Partners operates through Gobi-Core Philippine Fund, a joint venture founded in 2018 with local firm Core Capital (founding partners Jason Gaisano, Ken Ngo, and Carlo Chen-Delantar), headquartered in Manila. In 2023, Gobi-Core became one of the first firms officially accredited as a Co-Investment Partner of the Philippine government's Startup Venture Fund, a joint DTI-NDC initiative with a US$10 million allocation under RA 11337.

ICCP SBI Venture Partners is a joint venture between ICCP Venture Partners — the Philippines' longest continuously operating venture capital firm, tracing back to 1998 — and SBI Holdings, a major Japanese financial services group. Based in Makati, the firm had made 31 investments as of November 2023, combining ICCP's decades of local market experience with SBI's regional capital and network. Confirmed portfolio includes Philippine sari-sari store platform GrowSari, Singapore-based AI recruitment platform X0PA AI, and Singapore-based proptech marketplace Propseller — reflecting a mandate that reaches beyond the Philippines into wider Southeast Asian technology deals.

IdeaSpace is a Philippine startup foundation and venture arm established in 2012, backed by First Pacific, Metro Pacific Investments Corporation (MPIC), PLDT-Smart, Meralco, and Maynilad — companies associated with businessman Manuel V. Pangilinan. It runs founder-focused accelerator programs for early-stage Filipino tech entrepreneurs. Since 2012, IdeaSpace has supported more than 100 startups, mentored over 300 entrepreneurs, and deployed roughly PHP 180 million toward ecosystem-building. It co-founded QBO Innovation Hub in 2016 alongside J.P. Morgan, DOST, and DTI, and continues to run recurring annual accelerator cohorts (its 10th batch was unveiled in 2023). Its venture arm, IdeaSpace Ventures, is positioned within the MPIC/MVP Group ecosystem, spanning mobility, healthcare, logistics, fintech, energy, digital infrastructure, and media.

IMPORTANT HONESTY NOTE, per the task's own instruction to verify rather than oversell this entry: Impact Hub Manila is NOT a capital-deploying investor in the way every other entry in this directory is. Its own website states this explicitly and unambiguously: "We back your venture — we don't run it. You keep your equity, your IP, your direction" — and no direct equity-investment or check-writing model is described anywhere on its site. It is, first and foremost, a coworking space, founder community, and program host — part of the global Impact Hub network (80+ locations across five regions, 25,000+ founders worldwide). Impact Hub Manila was founded in 2015 by Ces Rondario and is based at the 25th Floor, Picadilly Star, Bonifacio Global City, Taguig. Beyond its physical coworking space, it runs structured, largely non-equity support programs — INCUBATE, AI for Good, a Climate Adaptation Track, and periodic hackathons — which it says delivered roughly ₱42 million in "incubation value" (mentorship, training, grant-supported resources, and network access, not straightforward cash investment) across its 2026 cohort. It should be listed in this directory as a genuine, real, and long-running part of the Philippine startup support ecosystem — but as a community/incubation host, not as a source of venture capital.

Insignia Ventures Partners is a Southeast Asian early-to-growth-stage venture capital firm founded in 2017 by Yinglan Tan, a former Sequoia Capital partner, headquartered in Singapore. The firm has raised over $800 million in assets under management across multiple funds, including a $516 million close in 2022, and has made roughly 160+ investments in about 89 companies. The firm is particularly active in Indonesia, Vietnam, and the Philippines. Its confirmed Philippine investments include Tonik, Southeast Asia's first all-digital "neobank," licensed by the Bangko Sentral ng Pilipinas, and First Circle, an SME trade-financing platform, where Insignia participated in an $8.6 million Series B round in 2024 alongside IFC and Endeavor.

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.

Kaya Founders is an early-stage venture capital firm based in Makati, Metro Manila, founded in 2021 by operators-turned-investors Paulo Campos (former CEO, Zalora Philippines), Lisa Gokongwei-Cheng (CEO, Summit Media), and Ray Alimurung (former CEO, Lazada Philippines). The firm runs a stapled dual-fund structure -- a "Zero to One" pre-seed fund and a "One to Ten" seed-to-Series A fund -- and closed its second fund at US$25 million (about P1.47 billion) in November 2025. It has built a portfolio of 40+ startups since founding.

💰 Check size: $100K–$500K

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.

Manila Angel Investors Network (MAIN) was founded in 2016 and is registered with the Philippine Securities and Exchange Commission as a non-stock, non-profit organization. It is the largest committed private investor network in the Philippines, connecting individual angel investors with promising early-stage Filipino companies. Beyond capital, MAIN provides mentorship, expertise support, and networking opportunities to the founders it backs. It invests at the pre-seed, seed, and Series A stages, and has backed early-stage companies including Kumu, Booky, and TANGGapp.

Navegar is a Philippine-focused private equity firm founded in 2011 and headquartered in Makati, formed in partnership with Swedish investment group Brummer & Partners. Unlike most entries here, Navegar does not write early-stage checks — it provides growth capital to already-profitable, mid-sized Philippine companies that need capital and an active ownership partner to scale further. Its best-known deal is a million strategic investment into TaskUs in 2015, when the outsourcing company was already profitable on a roughly million revenue run rate — Navegar's capital and board involvement helped fund TaskUs's growth before it went public on Nasdaq. Its broader portfolio spans outsourcing, food and beverage, healthcare, logistics, and e-commerce, and includes Great Deals E-Commerce Corp., itself already profiled in this directory. Now managing roughly million across two funds, with backers including Sweden's Swedfund and the IFC, Navegar has raised a third fund targeting ( million to keep backing mid-sized Philippine businesses through what its own managing partners have publicly called the country's uneven post-pandemic recovery.

💰 Check size: Over $5M