Investors Directory

Cento Ventures is a venture capital firm focused on early-stage Southeast Asian startups that have already reached initial product-market fit, with a particular concentration on companies building digital financial services — credit, settlements, insurance, and payments infrastructure. The firm is headquartered in Singapore, with additional offices in Seoul, South Korea and Petaling Jaya, Malaysia, and current partners including Dmitry Levit, Ali Fancy, and Yuan Lee Chung. (Note: this session could not independently confirm Cento Ventures' exact founding year through a live, fetchable source — stated honestly rather than guessed; should be confirmed directly before publishing if precision on that fact matters.) The firm's portfolio spans fintech and adjacent digital-economy sectors across the region, including payment processor 2C2P, digital consumer-finance platform Jirnexu, fashion e-commerce company Pomelo, telehealth-adjacent Medical Departures, and trade-financing platform Aqwire, alongside bets in F&B SaaS, logistics, and recruitment technology.

Coatue Management is a New York-based investment firm founded in 1999 by Philippe Laffont, a former Tiger Management analyst, together with Thomas Laffont. What began as a technology-focused hedge fund has grown into a multi-strategy platform spanning public equities, venture capital, growth equity, and private equity, with assets under management reported around $70 billion as of a 2022 disclosure. Its venture and growth vehicles include a dedicated Early Stage Fund (roughly $700 million raised in 2019) and a Growth Fund series, with the fourth growth fund raising $3.5 billion in 2020. The firm has backed some of the best-known names in global technology, including Anthropic, ByteDance, DoorDash, Instacart, Snap, Spotify, and UiPath, reflecting a broad thesis across AI, consumer internet, and enterprise software. Coatue is known for moving quickly and at scale across both public and private technology markets, often continuing to back companies through growth and pre-IPO rounds after earlier venture investors have established the business.

Core Capital is a Manila-based venture capital firm founded in 2018 by partners Jason Gaisano, Ken Ngo, and Carlo Chen-Delantar, with five partners and nine or more confirmed investments to date. Its flagship investment vehicle, the Gobi-Core Philippine Fund, is co-managed jointly with Pan-Asian VC firm Gobi Partners — already a separate entry in this directory — which makes Core Capital the Philippine general partner behind that joint fund rather than a fully independent, unconnected firm. Confirmed portfolio includes Humble Sustainability, a circular-economy/sustainability company, and Edukasyon.ph, a Philippine education-and-careers platform.

Craft Ventures is a San Francisco-based venture capital firm founded in 2017 by David O. Sacks (a former PayPal and Yammer executive) and Bill Lee (formerly of Remarq and Big Fish Games). The firm positions itself as being built by founders and operators for founders, with additional leadership including StubHub founder Jeff Fluhr and EarthLink founder Sky Dayton, who joined as general and venture partners in 2018. Craft has raised roughly $850 million in total assets across its fund vehicles, including a $712 million early-stage fund (Craft Ventures IV) and a $608 million growth fund (Growth II), both announced in November 2023. The firm has backed companies such as CloudKitchens, the identity-verification company Harbor, crypto custody firm BitGo (an acquirer of a Craft portfolio company), autonomous cybersecurity platform Horizon3.ai, and agentic security company Neo.

Creador is a growth-stage private equity firm founded in 2011 by Brahmal Vasudevan, who continues to lead the firm as CEO, headquartered in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia (Menara BRDB, Bukit Bandar Raya). The firm has raised roughly US$3.1 billion in committed capital across six funds since inception (Creador I through VI, ranging from a US$130 million debut fund in 2011 to a US$930 million sixth fund closed in 2024) and reports having deployed more than US$2 billion into approximately 63 portfolio companies. It maintains a genuine regional office network — Kuala Lumpur (HQ), Singapore, Bangkok, Mumbai, Jakarta, Ho Chi Minh City, and a Philippine office in Bonifacio Global City, Taguig (Unit 2306, Philippine Stock Exchange Tower). Creador's confirmed Philippine investment is DALI Everyday Grocery, which the firm describes as "the Philippines' pioneer and leading hard discount retailer," invested in 2022. Its broader portfolio spans consumer and retail (MR.DIY across Malaysia, Indonesia, India, and the Philippines; Tealive), financial services (Cholamandalam, City Union Bank, BFI Finance), healthcare (Hermina hospital chain in Indonesia), and other regional consumer names (Somany Ceramics, CTOS Digital, Sapphire Foods, Long Chau pharmacy in Vietnam).

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Crestone Venture Capital is a fintech-focused venture fund founded in 2019 by Kai Schmitz and Inanc Balci, with an Asia office in Makati alongside its Washington, D.C. and Sao Paulo offices, a deliberately global structure built around one specific thesis rather than one specific country. Crestone looks for the same underlying pattern across very different emerging markets: large, young, digitally-native populations with fast-growing GDP and urbanization but still-low penetration of formal financial services, and it backs the fintech infrastructure and embedded-finance companies built to close that gap. In the Philippines specifically, its confirmed portfolio includes Peddlr, a digital ledger and point-of-sale app that helps small sari-sari-store-style merchants manage inventory, bookkeeping, and a B2B marketplace in one place, and OneLot, which is building the software, data, and financing layer for the country's roughly $13 billion used-car dealership market. Both are the kind of unglamorous, high-volume, financial-inclusion-adjacent businesses that fit Crestone's stated thesis exactly, rather than headline-grabbing consumer apps.

A location note up front: CVC's true global headquarters is in St Helier, Jersey (a European/Channel Islands jurisdiction), which has no matching option in this directory's location schema. Rather than force an inaccurate Philippine or generic-Asia location, this entry uses CVC's actual Asia-Pacific regional headquarters — Hong Kong (Suite 3503, Two Exchange Square) — flagged explicitly here so this isn't mistaken for the firm's real global HQ. CVC traces its roots to 1981 as Citicorp Venture Capital, spun off as an independent firm in 1993 under founder Rolly van Rappard, and is now led by CEO Rob Lucas; it has been listed on Euronext Amsterdam since April 2024 and reports roughly €212 billion in assets under management (mid-2026) across private equity, credit, secondaries, and infrastructure strategies, with over 1,500 employees and around 30 offices worldwide. CVC has a genuine, substantial, and sustained Philippine investment track record — one of the deepest of any firm profiled in this batch. Confirmed Philippine deals include a roughly 15% stake in Rizal Commercial Banking Corporation (RCBC) for about US$115 million (2011); an investment in Fast Logistics Group to support Philippine expansion (2020, exited 2026); backing for Landers Superstore's branch-network expansion (2021); and, most recently, a majority 63.94% stake in hospital operator The Medical City (TMC), completed via tender offer in September 2025 through the roughly US$4.5 billion CVC Capital Partners Asia V fund. It has also invested regionally in Southeast Asia, including a 15% stake in Indonesian hospital chain Siloam International Hospitals (2016).

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Do Ventures is a Vietnam-headquartered venture capital firm describing itself as a leading early-stage investor across Vietnam and Southeast Asia, led by Managing Partners Vy Le and Archer Goh alongside an investment team that includes Venture Partner Thuc Vu. The firm's own materials reviewed for this profile did not disclose an exact founding year, headquarters city, or total fund size, though regional trade press confirms the firm is currently investing out of a Fund II, which received a US$10 million commitment from an Australian government impact-investment vehicle specifically earmarked to support early- and growth-stage SMEs. Do Ventures has also positioned itself as a policy and research voice in Vietnam's startup ecosystem, serving as lead research partner for Vietnam's "Innovation & Private Capital Report 2026." The firm's disclosed portfolio spans a wide range of Vietnamese and regional technology companies including Coolmate (consumer/e-commerce), Bizzi (fintech/spend management), Finhay (wealth-tech), Manabie and VUIHOC (edtech), MFast and Palexy (retail/fintech-adjacent tech), and Metub (media), reflecting broad early-stage activity across Vietnam's fast-growing digital economy rather than one narrow vertical.

East Ventures is a Southeast Asia-focused venture capital firm founded in 2009 by Willson Cuaca and Batara Eto, with Taiga Matsuyama also among its founding partners. The firm operates from three hubs — Singapore, Jakarta (Indonesia), and Tokyo (Japan) — reflecting its pan-regional structure spanning Southeast Asia and Japan. It has been one of the most active early-stage investors in the region since its founding, backing founders from seed through growth stage. East Ventures says it has been recognized as a consistent top-performing VC fund globally by Preqin and cited by various media as among the most active investors in Southeast Asia. Beyond direct investing, the firm publishes an annual Digital Competitiveness Index tracking digital readiness across Indonesian provinces, positioning itself as a regional research voice alongside its investment activity.

EDBI is the dedicated corporate investment arm of the Singapore Economic Development Board (EDB), the Singapore government agency responsible for planning and executing strategies to strengthen the country's position as a global business hub. EDBI was established in 1991 and is headquartered in Singapore, operating as a global investor in high-growth technology companies with an explicit mandate tied to advancing Singapore's own strategic economic and industrial interests, rather than as a purely financial-return-driven independent fund. Leadership names and a specific fund-size/AUM figure were not confirmed in the sources reviewed for this profile. EDBI's stated investment focus spans Information & Communication Technology (ICT), Emerging Technology, and Healthcare, and its disclosed recent deal activity — including participation in large growth-stage rounds for the AI company Lumilens, US semiconductor firm HyperLight, Singapore-based chipmaker Silicon Box, AI company Amity, a majority-stake acquisition in Advanced Micro Foundry, and a follow-on investment in wastewater-treatment firm Hydroleap — shows a firm operating comfortably at global scale, well beyond a Singapore-only investment footprint, while still anchored to sectors of strategic national interest for Singapore.

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Endeavor Catalyst is the rules-based co-investment fund of Endeavor, the global nonprofit network that supports high-growth entrepreneurs across more than 50 markets worldwide. Rather than sourcing its own independent deal flow like a typical VC fund, Catalyst invests exclusively alongside other lead investors into companies founded by entrepreneurs who have already been selected into the Endeavor network — a structural model designed to help make Endeavor's global operations more financially self-sustaining while giving its portfolio founders access to growth capital. The fund manages more than $540 million in assets under management, has made over 400 investments across 35+ countries, and has recorded 37 exits to date. Catalyst's disclosed portfolio includes well-known global names such as Brex, Bitso, Cabify, Bukalapak, Blueground, Asaas, and Altruist, with 71 of its backed companies having reached unicorn ($1 billion+) valuations. Its investment activity spans fintech, B2B software, commerce, healthcare, and marketplace/proptech companies across Latin America, Europe, Asia, the Middle East, and the United States and Canada. An exact founding year and headquarters address for the fund specifically were not confirmed in sources reviewed for this profile.

Founders Fund is a San Francisco-based (Letterman Digital Arts Center) venture capital firm founded in July 2005 by Peter Thiel, Ken Howery, and Luke Nosek — all early PayPal alumni. The firm manages approximately $17 billion in assets as of 2025 and has become known for a distinctly contrarian, "hard tech" investment identity, having expanded from primarily early-stage venture investing into late-stage and growth deals from 2019 onward, deploying increasingly large checks per company in its later funds. It opened a Miami office in 2021 and has made a growing number of investments in European and Asian startups. Founders Fund's portfolio spans SpaceX, Palantir Technologies, Anduril Industries, Facebook, Airbnb, Spotify, Stripe, Neuralink, and DeepMind, reflecting a shift over time from consumer internet bets toward defense technology, space, semiconductors, biotech, and artificial intelligence. It has been described as having perhaps the most formidable defense-technology portfolio in Silicon Valley. No Philippines-specific investment activity was confirmed from available sources.