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1982 Ventures is a Singapore-based early-stage venture capital firm co-founded by Managing Partners Scott Krivokopich and Herston Elton Powers, headquartered at 3 Shenton Way in Singapore's Shenton Way business district. The firm's own materials reviewed for this profile did not disclose an exact founding year, but its fund history is documented in regional trade press: its debut Fund I closed at US$20 million, exceeding its original US$15 million target, and the firm was reportedly targeting a US$50 million Fund II by early 2024. Beyond Singapore, the firm maintains regional operating partners covering Japan, Vietnam, and the United States, reflecting a deliberately hands-on, on-the-ground support model for its portfolio founders. 1982 Ventures describes itself as one of the most active fintech-focused seed investors in Southeast Asia, and its disclosed portfolio bears that out — spanning digital payments, embedded finance, buy-now-pay-later, payroll/earned-wage-access, and digital-asset exchange companies across the region. The firm has also shown willingness to follow strong founders into adjacent categories and geographies, including a disclosed participation in a US$400 million round for the US-based AI startup Higgsfield.

917Ventures (legal entity: Globe Capital Venture Holdings, Inc.) is Globe Telecom's venture-building arm, launched in 2019 and wholly owned by Globe. Rather than investing in external startups the way a typical fund does, it operates primarily as a venture studio — conceiving, building, and launching new digital businesses from within the Globe ecosystem — and has launched roughly 20 ventures to date. Confirmed ventures include GInsure, a digital micro-insurance platform; GCredit, a digital credit line embedded in the GCash app; and AdSpark, a digital advertising and marketing technology company. This venture-builder model is a meaningfully different mechanism from a typical external-investment fund, and is described honestly here as such.

Aboitiz Equity Ventures, Inc. (AEV) is the publicly listed holding company of the Aboitiz Group, one of the Philippines' oldest and largest conglomerates. It was established in 1989 (originally as Cebu Pan Asian Holdings, renamed AEV in 1993) and has traded on the Philippine Stock Exchange under ticker AEV since 1994. AEV is headquartered in Makati City (Ayala Triangle Gardens Tower 2) and, per its 2024 disclosures, reported ₱302.82 billion in revenue, ₱18.13 billion in net income, and ₱893.70 billion in total assets. Its core businesses span power generation and distribution, banking and financial services, food and agribusiness, infrastructure, real estate, and — since a 2022 strategic repositioning as a self-described "techglomerate" — a growing data and AI arm, Aboitiz Data Innovation. IMPORTANT RELATIONSHIP NOTE, PER SITE OWNER'S REQUEST: Aboitiz Equity Ventures is the PARENT conglomerate sitting one level above UBX Philippines Corp, which is already a separate, distinct entry in this directory. The actual ownership chain runs AEV -> Union Bank of the Philippines (a major banking subsidiary of AEV) -> UBX Philippines Corp, UnionBank's dedicated fintech venture-building arm. AEV itself is not a dedicated venture capital fund — it is a diversified public holding company that, through subsidiaries like UnionBank/UBX and its own Aboitiz Data Innovation unit, participates in fintech and tech-venture activity rather than running a standalone VC fund of its own.

AC Ventures — which brands itself as ACV Capital — traces its roots to 2014, when Adrian Li and Donald Wihardja founded Convergence Ventures, an early-stage fund dedicated to Indonesia's digital disruptors. Convergence's first fund, Convergence Capital I, closed at $30 million in 2016 and backed early companies including Helpster (job-matching), ReWork (co-working), and Laku6 (used-phone recommerce). Convergence Ventures later merged with fellow Indonesian VC Agaeti Venture Capital to form AC Ventures, which has since grown into one of Southeast Asia's more active growth-equity platforms. Today AC Ventures is led by founders and managing partners Michael Soerijadji and Adrian Li, alongside managing partner Helen Wong, headquartered at Prosperity Tower in Jakarta Selatan, Indonesia (with an additional Malaysia office). The firm states it manages over US$500 million across five funds, has invested in more than 100 companies across the region, and describes its portfolio — which includes Xendit, Carsome, Stockbit, Julo, Brik, Kargo, and Bibit — as having created more than $7 billion in combined market capitalization. AC Ventures frames its approach as "founders investing in founders," emphasizing operational support and regional market insight alongside capital.

A naming note up front: effective July 31, 2025, ACA Investments Pte. Ltd. — the Singapore-based entity of the Japanese ACA Group, in strategic alliance with Daiwa Securities Group since 2018 — formally changed its name to Felicity Global Capital Pte. Ltd. This profile is written under the name the firm is generally known by (ACA Investments), with the rename noted honestly rather than silently updated, since most public deal records and press coverage still refer to it as ACA Investments. Founded in 2008 and headquartered in Singapore (8 Temasek Boulevard, Suntec Tower 3), the firm describes its mission as "bridging Japan and Southeast Asia," combining Japanese capital and corporate relationships with growth opportunities across Southeast Asian and broader Asia-Pacific markets. ACA Investments has a genuine, confirmed Philippine investment: it participated in Sprout Solutions' (a Philippine HR-tech/payroll SaaS company) US$10.7 million Series B round in 2023, alongside Cercano Management, SoftBank Ventures Asia, AFG Partners, GSR Ventures, and others. Its broader portfolio spans Japan and Southeast Asia across fintech, media, biotech, healthtech, e-commerce, and deep tech, including SmartNews, Gojo & Company (microfinance), H3 Dynamics, FreeD Group, iPrice, InstaPay, bitFlyer, and HealthMetrics — reflecting a growth-stage, sector-agnostic mandate rather than a narrow thesis.

Accion Venture Lab is the early-stage investment arm of Accion, a global nonprofit organization founded in 1961 and headquartered in Cambridge, Massachusetts, that has worked for decades to expand financial inclusion for underserved populations worldwide. Venture Lab itself launched in April 2012 as Accion's strategic pivot toward backing fintech startups directly, rather than solely funding microfinance institutions through grants and technical assistance. As of the sources reviewed for this profile, the fund had deployed more than US$12 million across more than 30 startups operating in over 20 countries — figures that reflect the fund's earlier years and have likely grown since, though a more current AUM figure was not confirmed. Accion Venture Lab's disclosed portfolio directly includes First Circle, a Philippine invoice-financing fintech company, alongside international fintech investments such as NeoGrowth (India), Yoco (South Africa), and Konfio (Mexico) — demonstrating genuine, confirmed investment activity in the Philippine market as part of its broader global financial-inclusion mandate.

ADB Ventures is the venture-investment facility of the Asian Development Bank (ADB), a multilateral development bank founded in 1966 and headquartered at 6 ADB Avenue, Mandaluyong City, Metro Manila — meaning ADB Ventures itself is genuinely Philippine-based, unlike most other names on this list. It was launched in 2020 to "scale technology solutions for impact in Asia and the Pacific," positioning itself as an ImpactTech investment platform rather than a conventional commercial VC fund. It operates alongside related ADB initiatives such as the SEEK Fund (which offers seed funding of up to roughly US$400,000) and NextFin Asia. The firm's own portfolio/investments page (adbventures.com) currently redirects to a lapsed-domain marketplace listing rather than a live site, and adb.org itself blocks automated access — so specific named investee companies could not be independently confirmed for this profile via any accessible source this session. Its LinkedIn profile states current geographic activity concentrated in Southeast Asia (Thailand, Indonesia) and Japan, within its broader Asia-Pacific mandate.

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AFG Partners is a venture capital firm focused on financial-services technology, headquartered in Singapore with a secondary presence in Hong Kong. Its team includes founding partner Ron Savino alongside Ivan Ong, Warren Ho, and Anurag Birla. A note on sourcing for this profile: the firm's historical afgpartners.com domain now redirects to a domain-marketplace listing rather than a live company site, so this profile is built from the firm's LinkedIn company page rather than its own website — flagged honestly rather than treated as fully primary-sourced. AFG Partners backs enterprise B2B fintech and "enabling technology" companies serving financial institutions, with named investments including Utila (digital-asset/stablecoin infrastructure), Adclear (marketing-compliance AI), Reflectiz (web security), and V7 (AI/data). No Philippine investment or Philippine-market activity was found in any source checked for this profile.

Alpha JWC Ventures is a Southeast Asian venture capital firm founded in 2015 and headquartered in Jakarta, Indonesia, with a secondary office in Singapore. The firm was founded by Jefrey Joe, Chandra Tjan, and Willson Cuaca (the "JWC" in its name draws on the founders' names), and describes its focus as an "Indonesia+" strategy — anchored in Indonesia while investing selectively across the wider Southeast Asian region. Alpha JWC has raised a series of funds since inception, growing from its first fund into progressively larger vehicles as it built a reputation as one of Indonesia's most active early-to-growth-stage investors. The firm positions itself as a hands-on, value-add partner rather than a passive check-writer, running founder-support initiatives such as Alpha-X and an in-house academy alongside its core investing activity. Its portfolio spans several of Indonesia's best-known consumer and technology companies, reflecting a broad mandate across fintech, e-commerce, and consumer-facing digital platforms rather than a narrow sector thesis.

Altara Ventures is a Singapore-based venture capital firm established in 2020, headquartered on Floor 28 of 9 Battery Road in Singapore, and led by a team of general partners including Chairman Koh Boon Hwee alongside Dave Ng, Seow Kiat Wang, Gavin Teo, and Tan Chow Boon. The firm reports roughly US$130 million in assets under management and describes its leadership as operators-turned-investors, with prior experience scaling companies such as Omni, Zynga, and Zuora to IPO, and a collective track record of generating more than US$1 billion in IPO proceeds across earlier ventures before formally launching Altara. Altara maintains an unusually wide on-the-ground presence for a fund of its size, with offices or investment activity spanning Singapore, the Philippines, Indonesia, Thailand, Vietnam, Malaysia, India, Hong Kong, South Korea, and the United States. Its disclosed portfolio directly includes the Philippine digital bank Tonik, alongside PropertyScout, Staffinc, Buy&Ship, Netbank, PolicyStreet, Kyan, Clevai, Allra, Hyperlounge, and Klinik Pintar — reflecting genuine, confirmed investment activity in the Philippine market, not just regional proximity.

Amasia is a thesis-driven venture capital firm founded in 2013 by Ramanan Raghavendran and John Kim, headquartered in Burlingame, California, investing globally in the US, Southeast Asia, India, Europe, and Latin America. Its Philippine connection is real but concentrated in a small number of deals rather than a dedicated local fund: Coins.ph, a Manila-founded fintech, was Amasia's first-ever investment (since exited), and in 2024 the firm was among the investors in a $6.5 million pre-Series A round for Hive Health, a Manila-based SME health-insurance startup that later acquired one of the Philippines' oldest HMOs.

Andreessen Horowitz, widely known by its shorthand a16z, is a venture capital firm founded on July 6, 2009 by Marc Andreessen (co-creator of the Mosaic and Netscape web browsers) and Ben Horowitz, both veterans of the enterprise software company Loudcloud/Opsware. Headquartered in Menlo Park, California, the firm has grown into one of the largest venture capital franchises in the world, reporting roughly $90 billion in assets under management as of early 2026 spread across a family of specialized funds covering traditional venture and growth investing as well as dedicated crypto, biotech, gaming, and American dynamism/defense-focused vehicles. The firm has backed a remarkable number of category-defining technology companies since its founding, including early or growth-stage investments in Airbnb, Coinbase, Stripe, GitHub (later acquired by Microsoft for $7.5 billion), Lyft, Figma, Roblox, and Twitter/X, alongside a fast-growing roster of defense-technology companies such as Anduril, Shield AI, Skydio, and Astranis. a16z is known for its large in-house team of operating partners, marketing, and policy staff supporting portfolio companies well beyond capital alone.

💰 Check size: Over $5M