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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.

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Antler is a global early-stage venture capital firm founded in 2017 by Magnus Grimeland (a former McKinsey consultant and Zalora Group co-founder) and Fridtjof Berge. Headquartered in Singapore, Antler now operates in more than 30 cities across Asia-Pacific, Europe, North America, the Middle East, and Africa, including Sydney, Jakarta, Tokyo, Seoul, Kuala Lumpur, Ho Chi Minh City, London, Berlin, New York, San Francisco, Dubai, Riyadh, Nairobi, and Lagos. Antler's core model is its "Residency" program, which combines incubation and acceleration: it brings in individual founders (sometimes without a co-founder or idea yet), helps them form teams and validate concepts over several months, and then invests in the strongest resulting companies. The firm manages roughly $1 billion in assets under management as of 2024 and has backed over 1,500 companies globally, including unicorns Airalo and Lovable. It has since expanded beyond pure seed investing, raising a $285 million fund in 2023 to also support portfolio companies through later rounds up to Series C. As of this research, Antler does not list Manila or the Philippines among its active operating locations, though it is active elsewhere in Southeast Asia (Singapore, Jakarta, Kuala Lumpur, Ho Chi Minh City).

AppWorks is a Taipei, Taiwan-headquartered venture capital firm and startup accelerator founded in 2009 by Jamie Lin, who continues to lead the firm as Chairman & Partner. What began as the AppWorks Accelerator in 2010 has grown into a four-fund venture platform managing roughly US$350 million, with a self-reported network of 660+ active portfolio startups, thousands of founders, and tens of billions of dollars in cumulative portfolio valuation. AppWorks describes itself as one of the most active early-stage investors in "Greater Southeast Asia," a self-coined term reflecting its dual base spanning Taiwan and the wider Southeast Asian region. Its portfolio includes several of the region's best-known technology successes — Carousell, 91APP, Tiki, Dcard, ShopBack, and Web3 names like Animoca Brands and Dapper Labs among them. Its direct Philippine footprint is thin but real: its own investments page names one Philippine company, Clout Kitchen (an AI-powered creator-economy startup founded by three Filipino repeat founders), which AppWorks led at the pre-seed stage in 2024 — the firm itself notes its portfolio "underrepresents the Philippines relative to other regional markets like Indonesia and Vietnam."

Atlas Venture (the firm's own branding uses the singular "Venture," though it is commonly referred to as "Atlas Ventures") is a venture capital firm headquartered in Cambridge, Massachusetts. It traces its roots to 1980, when it was founded in Amsterdam by Michiel de Haan as a subsidiary of NMB Bank (now part of ING Group), before later relocating its center of gravity to the United States. The firm has raised its most recent flagship vehicle, Fund XIV, at $450 million (closed December 2024), and reports roughly $2.7 billion in assets under management with about 29 employees operating from a single Cambridge office today, having previously also maintained offices in London, Paris, Munich, and Seattle. In October 2014, Atlas underwent a major strategic shift, exiting technology investing entirely to focus exclusively on biotechnology. Its technology-focused investment team spun out to form a separate firm, Accomplice, to continue backing IT and software startups. Atlas Venture has no confirmed Philippine or Southeast Asian investment activity based on sources reviewed for this profile — it operates as a U.S.- and Europe-oriented life sciences investor.

Bain Capital Ventures is the venture capital arm of Bain Capital, founded in 2001 and operating out of offices in Boston, New York, San Francisco, and Palo Alto. The firm manages approximately $10 billion of committed capital across ten core investment funds plus additional co-investment vehicles, and has backed more than 400 active portfolio companies spanning seed through growth stage. Its early investments include LinkedIn, DocuSign, Twilio, Rent the Runway, Flywire, and Redis, several of which went on to IPO — LinkedIn at a $7.8 billion valuation in 2011, Twilio in 2016, DocuSign in 2018, and Flywire at $3.5 billion in 2021. The firm's investment focus centers on enterprise software (SaaS), financial technology, data infrastructure, and cloud computing.

Battery Ventures is a venture capital and private equity firm founded in 1983 by Rick Frisbie, Howard Anderson, and Bob Barrett in Boston, Massachusetts, where it remains headquartered. It has additional offices in Silicon Valley, San Francisco, Tel Aviv, London, and New York City. The firm has raised more than $13 billion since inception and is currently investing its fourteenth generation of funds — Battery Ventures XIV and Battery Ventures Select Fund II — with combined capitalization of $3.8 billion. Battery invests across both venture capital and private-equity strategies, spanning application software, infrastructure software, consumer technology, industrial tech, and life sciences, with a global footprint concentrated in North America, Europe, and Israel. As of 2025 the firm has invested in more than 530 companies, with 70 public-company outcomes and 185 mergers/acquisitions among its exits. No Philippines-specific investment activity was confirmed from available sources.

BEENEXT is a Singapore-headquartered, founder-first venture capital firm (office at One George Street) led by founder and CEO Teruhide Sato, a Japanese entrepreneur, alongside a leadership team of Managing Partners Dirk Van Quaquebeke, Hiro Maeda, and Hero Choudhary, and Operating Partner Nao Ito. This session could not independently confirm an exact founding year via a live source (BEENEXT is widely reported elsewhere as founded around 2015, but that figure was not re-verified against a primary source this session, so it is stated here only as commonly reported, not confirmed). The firm describes its portfolio as spanning roughly 180 companies across 17 countries and five continents, concentrated most heavily in India, Southeast Asia, and Japan, with additional activity in the U.S. It also runs a dedicated vehicle, the ALL STAR SAAS FUND, focused on Japan-based SaaS companies. Named portfolio companies include BharatPe, Instamojo, and Servify in India, and Akseleran and Ralali in Indonesia. Its own portfolio page includes "Philippines" as a region filter option, implying at least one Philippine investment exists or has existed in the book, but no Philippine company could be identified by name in the content actually accessible this session — flagged honestly as an unconfirmed connection rather than a stated one.

Benchmark is a San Francisco-based venture capital firm (headquartered at 140 New Montgomery Street) founded in 1995 by five equal partners: Bob Kagle, Bruce Dunlevie, Andy Rachleff, Kevin Harvey, and Val Vaden. It is well known in the venture industry for a distinctive, deliberately flat partnership structure with no junior or senior partner titles and no CEO-like role — all partners share equal ownership and compensation, tied to investment performance rather than management fees. Benchmark specializes in early-stage investing, typically leading a company's first institutional round and taking a board seat. Its historical fund performance has been unusually strong: the firm's first eight funds (1995-2019) returned more than seven and a half times invested capital net of fees and carry, and later funds have continued to perform well. Notable investments and exits include eBay ($6.7M for a 22.1% stake in 1997), Uber ($12M for roughly 11% in 2011), Instagram, Dropbox, Snap, Discord, Twitter, Asana, Zendesk, Yelp, and Zillow. Benchmark has no confirmed Philippines-specific investment activity or presence.

Similarly to Impact Hub Manila, an honesty note is warranted here: Benilde HiFi (full name: Benilde Hub of Innovation) is a university-affiliated innovation and entrepreneurship center at De La Salle-College of Saint Benilde (DLS-CSB) in Manila, not a standalone check-writing investment fund. No founding year could be confirmed via any source accessible this session, though its associated Impact Week PH event was in its "fourth iteration" as of 2025, suggesting the hub has been running programming for at least several years. It describes its own remit as "a full suite of services covering training, curation, crowdfunding, incubation and acceleration," run primarily through its Benilde Trailblazer Startup Incubation Program. HiFi's activity is genuinely active and current: in 2026 it incubated AIMHI, an AI-powered, offline-capable construction-management app built by a women-led team (CEO Cherryanne Lee Angoy, CTO Monica Llamas-Turrecha), which won the Mindanao Sub-National leg of the 2026 Presidential Filipinnovation Awards and advanced to the national finals. Separately, 16 startups from its program completed a six-week BAJ Accelerator Cohort in New York in 2025, and the hub organizes recurring events including Impact Week PH (hosted in Baguio) and industry forums such as one on digital transformation in construction (June 2026).

Bessemer Venture Partners traces its roots to 1911, when Carnegie Steel co-founder Henry Phipps Jr. spun out Bessemer Securities (initially $20 million in assets) from the Bessemer Trust he had established to manage family assets; its venture capital arm eventually became the independently operating BVP, with Bessemer Securities remaining as parent/backer. BVP is headquartered in San Francisco, California, with international offices in India, Israel, Hong Kong, and the United Kingdom, having expanded internationally starting in 2000 into India, Israel, Latin America, and Europe. As of 2022, BVP managed approximately $20 billion in assets under management with 151 employees, and Venture Capital Journal ranked it the 3rd-largest venture capital firm by total fundraising over the most recent five-year period as of 2024. In September 2022 the firm closed its first buyout fund, BVP Forge ($780 million), alongside its 12th early-stage fund ($3.85 billion), reflecting diversification beyond traditional early-stage venture investing into growth-stage private equity. No Philippines-specific investment activity was confirmed from available sources, though BVP does have an active presence in India and other parts of Asia.