Investors Directory

A location note up front: CVC's true global headquarters is in St Helier, Jersey (a European/Channel Islands jurisdiction), which has no matching option in this directory's location schema. Rather than force an inaccurate Philippine or generic-Asia location, this entry uses CVC's actual Asia-Pacific regional headquarters — Hong Kong (Suite 3503, Two Exchange Square) — flagged explicitly here so this isn't mistaken for the firm's real global HQ. CVC traces its roots to 1981 as Citicorp Venture Capital, spun off as an independent firm in 1993 under founder Rolly van Rappard, and is now led by CEO Rob Lucas; it has been listed on Euronext Amsterdam since April 2024 and reports roughly €212 billion in assets under management (mid-2026) across private equity, credit, secondaries, and infrastructure strategies, with over 1,500 employees and around 30 offices worldwide. CVC has a genuine, substantial, and sustained Philippine investment track record — one of the deepest of any firm profiled in this batch. Confirmed Philippine deals include a roughly 15% stake in Rizal Commercial Banking Corporation (RCBC) for about US$115 million (2011); an investment in Fast Logistics Group to support Philippine expansion (2020, exited 2026); backing for Landers Superstore's branch-network expansion (2021); and, most recently, a majority 63.94% stake in hospital operator The Medical City (TMC), completed via tender offer in September 2025 through the roughly US$4.5 billion CVC Capital Partners Asia V fund. It has also invested regionally in Southeast Asia, including a 15% stake in Indonesian hospital chain Siloam International Hospitals (2016).

💰 Check size: Over $5M

Do Ventures is a Vietnam-headquartered venture capital firm describing itself as a leading early-stage investor across Vietnam and Southeast Asia, led by Managing Partners Vy Le and Archer Goh alongside an investment team that includes Venture Partner Thuc Vu. The firm's own materials reviewed for this profile did not disclose an exact founding year, headquarters city, or total fund size, though regional trade press confirms the firm is currently investing out of a Fund II, which received a US$10 million commitment from an Australian government impact-investment vehicle specifically earmarked to support early- and growth-stage SMEs. Do Ventures has also positioned itself as a policy and research voice in Vietnam's startup ecosystem, serving as lead research partner for Vietnam's "Innovation & Private Capital Report 2026." The firm's disclosed portfolio spans a wide range of Vietnamese and regional technology companies including Coolmate (consumer/e-commerce), Bizzi (fintech/spend management), Finhay (wealth-tech), Manabie and VUIHOC (edtech), MFast and Palexy (retail/fintech-adjacent tech), and Metub (media), reflecting broad early-stage activity across Vietnam's fast-growing digital economy rather than one narrow vertical.

East Ventures is a Southeast Asia-focused venture capital firm founded in 2009 by Willson Cuaca and Batara Eto, with Taiga Matsuyama also among its founding partners. The firm operates from three hubs — Singapore, Jakarta (Indonesia), and Tokyo (Japan) — reflecting its pan-regional structure spanning Southeast Asia and Japan. It has been one of the most active early-stage investors in the region since its founding, backing founders from seed through growth stage. East Ventures says it has been recognized as a consistent top-performing VC fund globally by Preqin and cited by various media as among the most active investors in Southeast Asia. Beyond direct investing, the firm publishes an annual Digital Competitiveness Index tracking digital readiness across Indonesian provinces, positioning itself as a regional research voice alongside its investment activity.

EDBI is the dedicated corporate investment arm of the Singapore Economic Development Board (EDB), the Singapore government agency responsible for planning and executing strategies to strengthen the country's position as a global business hub. EDBI was established in 1991 and is headquartered in Singapore, operating as a global investor in high-growth technology companies with an explicit mandate tied to advancing Singapore's own strategic economic and industrial interests, rather than as a purely financial-return-driven independent fund. Leadership names and a specific fund-size/AUM figure were not confirmed in the sources reviewed for this profile. EDBI's stated investment focus spans Information & Communication Technology (ICT), Emerging Technology, and Healthcare, and its disclosed recent deal activity — including participation in large growth-stage rounds for the AI company Lumilens, US semiconductor firm HyperLight, Singapore-based chipmaker Silicon Box, AI company Amity, a majority-stake acquisition in Advanced Micro Foundry, and a follow-on investment in wastewater-treatment firm Hydroleap — shows a firm operating comfortably at global scale, well beyond a Singapore-only investment footprint, while still anchored to sectors of strategic national interest for Singapore.

💰 Check size: Over $5M

Genesis Alternative Ventures is a Singapore-headquartered firm describing itself as Southeast Asia's leading venture debt provider to venture and growth-stage companies already backed by tier-one venture capital investors. Unlike most entries in this directory, Genesis is not an equity investor — it provides venture debt financing, structured as loans rather than equity stakes, specifically to help founders extend runway or fund growth without the dilution a traditional VC round would require. It was co-founded by Dr Jeremy Loh (Managing Partner), Ben J Benjamin, and Martin Tang (both Partners), alongside Partner Eddy Ng; its exact founding year could not be independently confirmed through a live, fetchable source, stated honestly rather than guessed. In September 2024 the firm raised US$125 million for its second dedicated venture debt fund targeting Southeast Asia. Its lending portfolio spans more than 20 tech-enabled companies at Series B/C stage, including Trusting Social, Deliveree, Flow, Hmlet, Lynk Global, Horangi Cyber Security, and Akulaku.

💰 Check size: Over $5M

Genting Ventures is the corporate venture capital arm of Genting Group, the diversified Malaysian conglomerate founded in 1965 with global operations spanning leisure and hospitality, casinos and integrated resorts, plantations, property development, biotechnology, cruise lines, and energy. Genting Ventures is headquartered in Singapore (Genting Centre, 3 Lim Teck Kim Road) and backs early-stage startups whose innovations align with its parent group's strategic interests. (Note: this session could not independently confirm Genting Ventures' exact founding year, disclosed fund size, or a verified list of specific portfolio companies through any live, fetchable source — the firm's own website, gentingventures.com, was consistently unreachable to this session's tools (connection resets on every attempt), and no dedicated Wikipedia article or accessible database profile exists. Stated honestly rather than guessed; should be confirmed directly before publishing, ideally via a direct visit to gentingventures.com.) The firm's publicly stated sector focus spans gaming and entertainment, leisure and hospitality, agriculture, web3, and energy — a mix that closely mirrors Genting Group's own diversified business lines, consistent with a corporate venture unit investing for strategic alignment rather than a purely financial-returns mandate.

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.

Golden Gate Ventures is a Southeast Asian venture capital firm founded in 2011 and headquartered in Singapore, with additional offices in Jakarta, Hanoi, and Ho Chi Minh City. It was co-founded by Vinnie Lauria, Jeffrey Paine, and Paul Bragiel and was one of the earliest institutional VC firms built specifically around the Southeast Asian startup market rather than a global or single-country mandate. The firm has backed roughly 40+ companies across the region and reports total assets under management in the hundreds of millions of dollars as of the mid-2020s. A note on relevance for this directory: an earlier research pass on this project could not confirm any Philippine-specific deal for Golden Gate Ventures. On direct verification against the firm's own website, this is only partly true — its own portfolio page lists one Philippine company, Kita (an agritech/fintech platform for farmers), tagged under "Philippines." Beyond that single entry, the firm's public activity remains heavily concentrated in Indonesia, Vietnam, and Singapore, with no other confirmed Philippine investment found.

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.

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.

Integra Partners is an early-stage venture capital firm headquartered in Singapore, co-founded by General Partner Chris Kaptein and Managing Partner Jinesh Patel. The firm's own materials reviewed for this profile did not disclose an exact founding year or fund size, though it presents itself as investing under a "profit meets purpose" philosophy across Southeast Asia and South Asia. The firm's stated geographic reach explicitly includes Indonesia, Bangladesh, and the Philippines alongside other regional markets, and its portfolio spans earned wage access, chronic healthcare management, e-commerce enablement, HR/payroll SaaS, environmental/sustainability platforms, and SME credit and financial-services technology — reflecting a thesis built around solving structural access gaps for underserved consumers and small businesses rather than one narrow vertical.

Iterative is a Southeast Asia-focused startup accelerator co-founded by Hsu Ken Ooi (previously founded Decide, acquired by eBay) and Brian Ma (co-founded Weave, a Y Combinator S14 company), describing itself as "founders supporting founders." Per its own site, the firm runs two accelerator batches a year, investing US$150,000 to US$500,000 into each admitted startup upfront, followed by a 12-week intensive program built around weekly mentor check-ins, growth-target setting, and a demo day pitching to investors at the end of the cohort. By its own count, Iterative has invested in 100+ companies and supports a community of 200+ founders across Southeast Asia, with its partners drawing on experience having collectively founded multiple companies, raised over $100M, and been through acquisitions. An exact founding year and headquarters city were not confirmed from publicly accessible sources during this research; the firm's own site copyrights its content 2021-2025, and general reporting places its roots in the Southeast Asian startup ecosystem (Vietnam has been cited in some secondary coverage), but this specific detail should be verified before publishing.

💰 Check size: $100K–$500K