Investors Directory

VERIFICATION FINDING (per explicit request): Granite Asia is confirmed, via two independent current sources (Wikipedia's Granite Asia and GGV Capital articles, cross-checked against each other, plus the firm's own live official site) to be the genuine, currently-operating Asia-focused successor to GGV Capital's business. In September 2023, GGV Capital announced it would split its U.S. and Asia operations following a U.S. House Select Committee investigation into American venture capital's exposure to Chinese technology investments. The split completed on March 29, 2024, dividing GGV into two fully independent firms: Granite Asia (continuing the Asia-focused business — China, Southeast Asia, and South Asia — headquartered in Singapore) and Notable Capital (the separate, independent U.S.-focused successor). Granite Asia is genuinely active today, not a dormant rebrand — its official site (graniteasia.com) shows real, current 2025-2026 activity, including a $350+ million first close of a pan-Asia private credit fund (backed by Temasek, Khazanah, and the Indonesia Investment Authority, closed December 2025) and a $110 million AI-focused IPO fund launched with DBS in February 2026. LinkedIn lists the firm's founding year as 2000, reflecting continuity with GGV Capital's original founding date rather than a fresh 2024 start. Granite Asia is led by Jenny Lee and Jixun Foo (both longtime GGV Capital partners) and reports AUM figures of $8.5 billion (per Wikipedia, 2025) to $10 billion (per its own site) in assets and co-managed capital, spanning venture capital, growth equity, and a newer private-credit business run partly through its Libra Hybrid Capital strategy. The firm also manages independent yuan-denominated funds in China through its subsidiary Jiyuan Capital. Its investment themes span consumer growth, enterprise workflow and supply chain, food systems and sustainability, health innovation, and energy transition/automation. Confirmed current and legacy portfolio companies include Manycore (an AI company Granite Asia/GGV has backed since 2014, through to IPO), Aureka (an AI-native biotech company that raised a $100 million Series B with Granite Asia's backing), Galatek (AI-enabled semiconductor automation), and Notta (AI transcription, backed via a Granite-Integral joint venture). One notable legacy investment, Chinese AI firm Megvii, was flagged by GGV/Granite Asia as an exit target following US sanctions.

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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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

MDI Ventures is the corporate venture capital arm of Telkom Group, Indonesia's largest telecommunications company, founded in 2016 and headquartered in Jakarta, Indonesia. The firm is led by CEO Nicko Widjaja, with Fajrin Rasyid (also CEO of Telkom) serving as Chairman. Rather than operating a single fund, MDI manages a family of vehicles including a US$500 million digitalization fund, the US$150 million Centauri Fund co-managed with KB Investment, and the US$40 million Arise Fund co-managed with Finch Capital, and reports having generated more than US$708 million in cumulative synergy value with Telkom's business by 2023. MDI describes itself as a "global multi-stage VC firm for local founders," investing from seed through growth stage across the digital economy with a deliberate emphasis on creating operational synergies between its portfolio companies and Telkom Group's own telecommunications and enterprise infrastructure. Its disclosed portfolio spans fintech, healthtech, edtech, and enterprise software companies primarily in Indonesia, with regional activity extending into Southeast Asia and select investments in Singapore and Australia.

Orvel Ventures is an early-stage venture capital firm focused on identifying high-potential companies in what it describes as the challenging and opaque Southeast Asian market. The firm was co-founded by Milan Reinartz, Mohan Belani, Cheng Wei Ng, and Jeremy Au, and its portfolio and activity are concentrated across Singapore, Indonesia, Malaysia, and Thailand. An exact founding year, headquarters address, and fund size were not disclosed in the firm's own materials reviewed for this profile. Orvel says its portfolio has produced 14 mark-ups and follow-on rounds, and that its backed companies were EBITDA-positive at the time of investment — an unusually explicit profitability claim for an early-stage regional fund. The firm has also disclosed a realized return figure of roughly 0.1x DPI (distributions to paid-in capital) on exits to date, and lists AscendAngels and Farquhar Venture Capital among its backing partners.

Plug and Play Philippines is the local National Startup Accelerator Program run under a formal, two-year partnership between Plug and Play, the Silicon Valley-founded global innovation platform active since 2006 and connected to over 35,000 startups and 500-plus corporate partners worldwide, and the Philippine Department of Trade and Industry (DTI), publicly launched in Makati in April 2024. Rather than an independent Philippine-founded fund, it exists because the government sought out a global accelerator brand to run a formal local program, targeting roughly 40 startups a year across two six-month cohorts, focused on AI, cybersecurity, software development, animation, agritech, and food technology. DFNN Inc., a listed Philippine tech company, joined as a private-sector partner, testing incubating companies' products and contributing seed funding alongside DTI-referred sponsors. Participants receive mentorship and limited direct equity funding, plus access to Plug and Play's global network, reported by the firm at roughly billion in accessible capital — a genuinely different value proposition from a fund writing its own large checks, stated plainly here rather than oversold.