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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.

Qualgro is a Singapore-headquartered venture capital firm founded by Heang Chhor, who serves as Founder and Managing Partner, backing what the firm describes as globally-minded entrepreneurs building durable advantages in technology, strategy, and execution. The firm invests primarily at Series A and B across Southeast Asia, with a focus on B2B, data/AI, and software companies. (Note: this session could not independently confirm Qualgro's exact founding year through a live, fetchable source — stated honestly rather than guessed.) The firm's portfolio includes more than two dozen companies, several with realized exits — Accredify, Erudifi, Hevo, NoBroker, SynaXG, and Vend among them — alongside active investments in ShopBack (e-commerce), Funding Societies (fintech lending), PatSnap (data/AI, global), Supermom, and Appier. The current investment team includes Partner Weisheng Neo and venture partners Peter Huynh and Carlos Camacho.

Quest Ventures is a Singapore-based venture capital firm founded in 2011 by James Tan and Wang Yunming (also known for co-founding the Chinese group-buying company 55tuan). The firm reports over US$80 million in assets under management and describes itself as among the top 10 most active investors in Southeast Asia and Central Asia, with a portfolio of 150+ companies across roughly 150 cities in Asia as of the mid-2020s. Its named portfolio spans marketplaces, fintech, proptech, and media, including well-known Southeast Asian names such as Carousell, ShopBack, 99.co, Carro, Xfers, and Kredivo. Checking its own portfolio listing directly for this profile, no company was found explicitly tagged to the Philippines — its identifiable geographic activity concentrates in Singapore, Indonesia, Malaysia, Vietnam, and other parts of Southeast and Central Asia, without a confirmed Philippine investment.

Rebright Partners is an early-stage venture capital firm founded in 2008 by Takeshi Ebihara, a 30-year venture capital veteran and serial entrepreneur who previously founded internet companies including one that reached a public listing. The firm is headquartered in Tokyo, Japan, with additional offices in Bengaluru, India and Singapore, and describes itself as "the gateway between Japan, ASEAN and India" — backed by prominent Japanese corporate and institutional investors and leveraging that network to help portfolio startups expand regionally and forge partnerships with major Japanese technology companies. Its investment team includes Partner Brij Bhasin (co-founder of GSF Accelerator, an early advisor at Little Eye Labs, which was acquired by Facebook in 2014) and Principal Mahesh Kumar (formerly of Sony Innovation Fund). The firm has built a portfolio of more than 35 companies across India, Indonesia, Malaysia, the Philippines, Singapore, and Thailand, spanning healthcare (MediBuddy, Virohan, Nivaan, Instalimb), e-commerce (Bukalapak, Qraved, Elanic), edtech (Codingal, Stimuler), logistics and mobility (LetsTransport, ClickPost, Numocity — later acquired by ABB e-Mobility), agritech (Aquaconnect, Eggoz), and fintech/insurtech. Its one confirmed Philippine investment is Coins.ph, the cryptocurrency and blockchain-based financial services platform.

SPH Ventures is the corporate venture capital arm of Singapore Press Holdings (SPH), the Singaporean media and property conglomerate whose media business was restructured into the not-for-profit SPH Media Trust in 2021. Per its own investment activity, the firm has backed more than 40 companies to date, primarily across Southeast Asia, investing alongside other regional funds such as Quest Ventures. (Note: this session could not independently confirm SPH Ventures' exact founding year, current fund size, or its precise organizational status following SPH's 2021 media-business restructuring through any live, fetchable source — SPH's own corporate site and SPH Media's site could not be accessed by this session's tools, and no dedicated Wikipedia article exists for the venture arm. Stated honestly rather than guessed; should be confirmed directly before publishing.) Documented investments include Partipost (an influencer-marketing platform, which SPH Ventures led a $3.5 million round for), influence.co (a US-based influencer-marketing seed round), TheLorry (a Malaysia/Southeast Asia logistics platform, participating in a $5.85 million Series B), Pathmatics (co-led investment round), and Snapcart (a shopper-engagement and receipt-scanning app) — reflecting a thesis spanning digital media, influencer/ad-tech, logistics, and consumer engagement technology, sectors adjacent to SPH's own core media and publishing business.

TENCO Capital describes itself as a corporate venture capital firm backing startups in the Philippines and Southeast Asia, headquartered at the TPI-Motortrade Building on EDSA in Mandaluyong City, Metro Manila. The firm's own materials reviewed for this profile did not disclose a founding year, named founders or managing partners, or fund size — though its office address suggests a connection to the Motortrade group of companies, a well-known Philippine motorcycle and vehicle retail conglomerate, without the exact corporate relationship being explicitly confirmed on the firm's site. TENCO positions itself as sector-agnostic, prioritizing founder alignment and execution capability over any single vertical. Its publicly listed portfolio spans consumer, edtech, media, and fintech ventures operating primarily in the Philippines.

TNB Aura is a Singapore-headquartered, thesis-led venture capital firm whose founding team includes Charles Wong, Meng Wah Ng, and Rajesh Budhrani. The firm's own site could not be directly accessed for this profile (it blocks automated fetching), so this entry is built from its LinkedIn company profile and general public record rather than its own about page — flagged honestly rather than treated as fully verified against the primary source. It describes itself as a data-driven, high-conviction investor that aims to be a genuine operating partner to its portfolio companies rather than a passive check-writer. Its named portfolio includes companies such as PRISM+, Charge+, Niber Technologies, Gush, and TECHCOOP, spanning sectors from consumer electronics to electric mobility. Its stated geographic focus is Southeast Asia, with specific activity identified in Thailand, Vietnam, Indonesia, Malaysia, and Singapore — no Philippine investment or Philippine market mention was found in any source checked for this profile.

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UBX Philippines Corp is the fintech venture-building and investment arm of UnionBank of the Philippines (part of the Aboitiz Group), incorporated in late 2018 with a reported committed budget of roughly ₱500 million a year. It builds and invests in financial-technology ventures aimed at underserved Filipino individuals and small businesses, and later established a Singapore hub to extend its venture arm's regional reach. Confirmed portfolio includes SME lending platform SeekCap, rural-bank digital-infrastructure provider i2i, and micro-merchant platform Bux. UBX also led a funding round for PDAX, one of the Philippines' licensed cryptocurrency exchanges — a real, notable link to another platform already tracked in this directory's Startups section.

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.

Villgro Philippines is a gender-smart impact incubator founded in 2017 and based in Makati, operating as the Philippine chapter of Villgro, an impact-investing organization with roots in India that runs country-specific programs across several emerging markets. Rather than writing occasional checks from a fixed fund, Villgro Philippines runs a direct incubation-and-investment portfolio that has grown to around 39 enterprises across health, education, agriculture, affordable housing, and women-and-girls-focused businesses, pairing capital with hands-on investment-readiness support. It also co-founded two pieces of investing infrastructure the local ecosystem lacked: Impact Pioneers, described by Villgro itself as the Philippines' first dedicated impact angel-investing network, built jointly with xchange; and WE Rise Community, an access-to-finance platform for women entrepreneurs. Its most recent initiative, AI4Health Asia, was launched with Canada's IDRC as the first accelerator of its kind in the region dedicated to responsible-AI health startups, focused on sexual, reproductive, and maternal health and on epidemic preparedness across South and Southeast Asia.

Wavemaker Partners is a venture capital firm founded in 2012 by Paul Santos (Singapore) and Eric Manlunas (Los Angeles), grown out of the Draper Venture Network into a bi-coastal firm spanning Southeast Asia and Southern California. Its Asian fund focuses on enterprise, deep tech, and sustainability, with the Philippines as one of its core Southeast Asian markets alongside Singapore, Indonesia, Vietnam, and Thailand. Since 2012, Wavemaker has backed more than 200 companies region-wide, with over $500 million in total committed capital and exits generating over $2 billion in enterprise value. It operates three fund strategies — Wavemaker Ventures (early-stage), Wavemaker Impact (venture building for climate/decarbonization), and Wavemaker Growth (growth-stage).