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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.

Rocketship.vc is a data-science-driven venture capital firm co-founded by serial entrepreneurs Venky Harinarayan and Anand Rajaraman, who previously co-founded Junglee (acquired by Amazon) and Kosmix (acquired by Walmart, later becoming @WalmartLabs). Its leadership also includes Managing Partners Madhu Shalini Iyer, former Chief Data Officer of Gojek, and Sailesh Ramakrishnan, co-founder of LocBox. The firm describes itself as remote-first, with a team drawing on backgrounds in data mining research (having co-authored what it describes as the most-downloaded data mining textbook) and prior work on NASA's Mars Exploration Rover mission. (Note: this session could not independently confirm Rocketship.vc's exact founding year through a live, fetchable source — stated honestly rather than guessed.) The firm has invested in more than 70 companies across at least 14 countries, spanning India (Apna, FamPay, Khatabook, Quizizz, NoBroker), Africa (Chipper Cash, Kippa), the Middle East (Sary, Qashio), Latin America (Trocafone), Indonesia (BukuWarung, Kitalulus), and the U.S. (early investments in Facebook and Lyft), with several exits including Paperspace, Locus, and Later.

SIG Venture Capital is the direct-investment venture arm of Susquehanna International Group (SIG), a privately-held quantitative trading and financial services firm founded in May 1987 by Jeff Yass, Arthur Dantchik, and a group of co-founders, headquartered in Bala Cynwyd, Pennsylvania. SIG is one of the world's largest privately-held financial services firms, with over $868 billion in total assets and 2024 revenue of $7.2 billion, built primarily on market-making, institutional brokerage, and proprietary trading in equities, fixed income, and derivatives. Its venture arm — often branded SIG Asia VC given its long regional history — has been actively investing in startups for more than 15 years, expanding into China in 2005 and Japan in 2014, and operates from SIG's global office network spanning the US, Europe (Dublin, London), and Asia (Shanghai, Beijing, Hong Kong, Tokyo). A distinguishing feature of SIG Venture Capital is that it invests its own permanent capital rather than raising and deploying a traditional fund with a fixed lifecycle — this lets it commit to portfolio companies over long, flexible time horizons across deal types and stages from Series A through pre-IPO. The team of 20+ investment and operations professionals has backed more than 50 companies with a combined reported revenue exceeding $2.5 billion and combined EBITDA over $350 million. Its best-known investment is ByteDance, where SIG made an initial $5 million bet in 2012 that had grown to a stake worth more than $15 billion by 2020; other confirmed investments include enterprise fintech company HighRadius, Indian grocery startup Otipy (which SIG led a $10.2 million Series A for), Chinese game-development platform MetaApp (SIG led a $100 million round), and Indonesian dental-care platform Satu Dental (a since-exited position).

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Thrive Capital is a New York-based venture capital and growth-equity firm founded in 2009 by Joshua Kushner, who was 24 years old at the time. Starting with a first fund of just $5 million, the firm has grown into one of the most prominent technology investors of its generation — assets under management were reported at over $50 billion as of 2026, with its tenth flagship fund alone targeting more than $10 billion. Unlike many venture firms that spread capital across a large number of bets, Thrive has been known for concentrating conviction in a relatively small number of companies, aiming to build deep, multi-round relationships with founders. Former Harvard Business School dean Nitin Nohria joined as the firm's first executive chair in 2022. Thrive was an early investor in Instagram, GitHub, Spotify, and Twitch, and its more recent portfolio spans Stripe, Databricks, OpenAI, and A24 — reflecting a broad mandate across internet, software, and AI-enabled businesses rather than a single narrow sector.