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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.

Kickstart Ventures is the corporate venture capital arm of Globe Telecom, founded in 2012 and headquartered in Makati. It is the Philippines' largest corporate VC by track record, having participated in dozens of funding rounds across multiple countries and built a portfolio of roughly 70 local and international companies. Kickstart also advises the Ayala Corporation Technology Innovation Venture (ACTIVE) Fund. Its core differentiator is direct access to the Globe and Ayala corporate ecosystems — retail networks, logistics infrastructure, and telecom distribution — that it can plug portfolio startups into directly, rather than acting purely as a capital provider.

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.

Lightspeed Venture Partners is a global venture capital firm founded in 2000 by four Stanford graduates — Barry Eggers, Christopher Schaepe, Ravi Mhatre, and Peter Nieh — who had previously worked together at Weiss, Peck & Greer. Headquartered in Menlo Park, California, the firm has grown to eleven offices across North America, Europe, and Asia-Pacific, including San Francisco, New York, Tel Aviv, New Delhi, Bangalore, Mumbai, Singapore, London, Paris, and Berlin. Reported assets under management range from roughly $35 billion (2023) to $50 billion depending on the source, and the firm raised $7.1 billion across multiple funds in 2022 alone. Lightspeed invests across seed, early, and growth stages in enterprise software, fintech, consumer technology, and healthcare. Notable investments include Snapchat (early investor), Nest (acquired by Google for $3.2 billion), MuleSoft (acquired by Salesforce for $6.5 billion), Nutanix, Affirm, and Guardant Health. The firm maintains an active Singapore office as part of its Asia-Pacific presence, though no Philippines-specific investment activity was confirmed from available sources.

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.

Monk's Hill Ventures is a Southeast Asia-focused venture capital firm founded in 2014 by Peng T. Ong and Kuo-Yi Lim, both experienced regional tech entrepreneurs and investors. The firm is headquartered in Singapore at 1 George Street, with additional on-the-ground presence in Jakarta, Indonesia and Ho Chi Minh City, Vietnam, reflecting its regional coverage strategy. Monk's Hill states it has invested in more than 50 fast-growing startups across Southeast Asia since founding. The firm's portfolio spans a wide range of business models across the region, including logistics unicorn Ninja Van, edtech platform ELSA, and fintech, healthtech, HR tech, and SaaS companies operating across Singapore, Indonesia, Vietnam, and the wider Southeast Asian market. Monk's Hill also runs community initiatives for its portfolio founders, including the SEA Connect and Angsana Council programs.

Openspace Ventures (now operating under the broader Openspace Capital name) is a multi-strategy asset manager founded in 2014 and focused on Southeast Asia. It is co-headquartered in Singapore and Jakarta, with additional offices across the region including a presence in Manila, and manages roughly $800 million in total committed capital across six funds spanning early-stage, growth-stage (OSV+), and a crypto-focused fund (Ocular). In the Philippines, Openspace is best known for co-leading Kumu's approximately $15 million Series B round in mid-2021 alongside SIG, joined by returning investors Kickstart Ventures, Foxmont Capital Partners, and Summit Media. Its broader Southeast Asian portfolio includes Gojek/GoTo, Kredivo, Halodoc, and Pickup Coffee.

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.

Patamar Capital is a U.S.-headquartered impact-oriented investment platform co-founded by Founding Partners Geoff "Chester" Woolley and Lee FitzGerald, tracing its roots to 2004, when its predecessor organization, Unitus Inc., pioneered microfinance investing in India. Over roughly two decades the firm evolved from a single microfinance-focused vehicle into a multi-asset platform spanning six distinct funds — including the Livelihood Impact Fund, Patamar Fund II, the Investing in Women Fund, the SEAF Women's Opportunity Fund, the gender-lens Beacon debt fund, and the Liquidus Fund — combining venture equity, venture debt, and gender-lens investment products. The firm maintains on-the-ground presence across the United States, India, Sri Lanka, Vietnam, Singapore, and Indonesia, and states it has backed more than 50 companies, reaching over 15 million underserved individuals across its portfolio's combined reach. Patamar's disclosed portfolio includes the Philippine proptech company Lhoopa and the Philippine-active pharmacy-distribution platform SwipeRx, alongside a broad roster of emerging-markets fintech, agritech, healthtech, and SME-digitization companies such as Ayoconnect, Kinara, MyShubhLife, Taptap Send, and Peddlr — reflecting genuine investment activity across South and Southeast Asia rather than a purely thematic claim.

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.

QED Investors is a venture capital firm founded in 2007 by Nigel Morris, Frank Rotman, and Caribou Honig, all former Capital One executives (Morris had served as the company's President and COO before departing in 2004). Headquartered in Alexandria, Virginia, the firm invests exclusively in financial technology, describing itself as "fintech operators turned fintech investors." QED reports roughly $4.0 billion under management, with about $2.4 billion invested to date across more than 250 portfolio companies, 31 of which have reached unicorn status. The firm's investments span 27 countries across five continents — it began investing in the U.S. in 2007, expanded into Europe in 2012, Latin America in 2014, Asia and India in 2021, and Africa in 2022 — with team members based in the U.S., England, Singapore, Mexico, and Brazil. Notable portfolio companies include Credit Karma (acquired by Intuit for roughly $7 billion), the Brazilian digital bank Nubank, and cross-border remittance company Remitly.

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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.