Investors Directory

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.

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.

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.

Foxmont Capital Partners is a Philippines-focused venture capital firm founded in 2018, investing in early-stage, tech-enabled startups from seed through Series A (and, with its newest fund, up to Series B). Since inception it has deployed more than PHP 1 billion across two earlier funds. In 2025, Foxmont announced a $30 million first close for its third fund, anchored by the Dutch Good Growth Fund (DGGF) — the first development finance institution commitment to a Philippine-focused early-growth fund — with Grab Holdings also participating. More than half of that first close came from Philippine family offices.

Future Now Ventures is an independent, Makati-based early and growth-stage venture capital firm founded in 2014 by John Orrock. It has made 32 investments to date, with one portfolio company reaching IPO and four acquired — a track record that predates much of the Philippines' recent startup-funding wave. Confirmed portfolio includes AutoDeal, an online car marketplace; HR and payroll platform Salarium, which the firm backed in 2016 (Salarium later shut down in 2023, a real, honestly-disclosed outcome rather than an ongoing success); recruitment platform Kalibrr; and flexible workspace marketplace FlySpaces.

Genesis Alternative Ventures is a Singapore-headquartered firm describing itself as Southeast Asia's leading venture debt provider to venture and growth-stage companies already backed by tier-one venture capital investors. Unlike most entries in this directory, Genesis is not an equity investor — it provides venture debt financing, structured as loans rather than equity stakes, specifically to help founders extend runway or fund growth without the dilution a traditional VC round would require. It was co-founded by Dr Jeremy Loh (Managing Partner), Ben J Benjamin, and Martin Tang (both Partners), alongside Partner Eddy Ng; its exact founding year could not be independently confirmed through a live, fetchable source, stated honestly rather than guessed. In September 2024 the firm raised US$125 million for its second dedicated venture debt fund targeting Southeast Asia. Its lending portfolio spans more than 20 tech-enabled companies at Series B/C stage, including Trusting Social, Deliveree, Flow, Hmlet, Lynk Global, Horangi Cyber Security, and Akulaku.

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Global Founders Capital (GFC) is a venture capital firm founded by Oliver Samwer, one of the three Samwer brothers behind Berlin-based venture builder Rocket Internet, and it operates as Rocket Internet's global venture capital investment platform. Current investment partners named on the firm's own site include Cedric Asselman, David Sainteff, and Fabricio Pettena. GFC's own public materials reviewed for this profile did not disclose an exact founding year, headquarters address, fund size, or a named list of portfolio companies — those specific facts are omitted here rather than assumed, though the firm is widely known in industry press as one of the most prolific early-stage checkwriters globally, historically linked to seed and early rounds of companies such as Slack, Canva, and Wish, per third-party technology press coverage rather than the firm's own site. GFC describes its own approach as investing "early and across sectors, supporting exceptional founders from day one," positioning itself as a generalist, high-volume early-stage investor rather than a firm with a narrow thematic or geographic mandate.

Gobi Partners is a Pan-Asian venture capital firm founded in 2002, with roughly US$1.5-1.6 billion in assets under management and investments in more than 350 startups across 15+ Asian markets, including several unicorns. In the Philippines, Gobi Partners operates through Gobi-Core Philippine Fund, a joint venture founded in 2018 with local firm Core Capital (founding partners Jason Gaisano, Ken Ngo, and Carlo Chen-Delantar), headquartered in Manila. In 2023, Gobi-Core became one of the first firms officially accredited as a Co-Investment Partner of the Philippine government's Startup Venture Fund, a joint DTI-NDC initiative with a US$10 million allocation under RA 11337.

Golden Gate Ventures is a Southeast Asian venture capital firm founded in 2011 and headquartered in Singapore, with additional offices in Jakarta, Hanoi, and Ho Chi Minh City. It was co-founded by Vinnie Lauria, Jeffrey Paine, and Paul Bragiel and was one of the earliest institutional VC firms built specifically around the Southeast Asian startup market rather than a global or single-country mandate. The firm has backed roughly 40+ companies across the region and reports total assets under management in the hundreds of millions of dollars as of the mid-2020s. A note on relevance for this directory: an earlier research pass on this project could not confirm any Philippine-specific deal for Golden Gate Ventures. On direct verification against the firm's own website, this is only partly true — its own portfolio page lists one Philippine company, Kita (an agritech/fintech platform for farmers), tagged under "Philippines." Beyond that single entry, the firm's public activity remains heavily concentrated in Indonesia, Vietnam, and Singapore, with no other confirmed Philippine investment found.

VERIFICATION FINDING (per explicit request): Granite Asia is confirmed, via two independent current sources (Wikipedia's Granite Asia and GGV Capital articles, cross-checked against each other, plus the firm's own live official site) to be the genuine, currently-operating Asia-focused successor to GGV Capital's business. In September 2023, GGV Capital announced it would split its U.S. and Asia operations following a U.S. House Select Committee investigation into American venture capital's exposure to Chinese technology investments. The split completed on March 29, 2024, dividing GGV into two fully independent firms: Granite Asia (continuing the Asia-focused business — China, Southeast Asia, and South Asia — headquartered in Singapore) and Notable Capital (the separate, independent U.S.-focused successor). Granite Asia is genuinely active today, not a dormant rebrand — its official site (graniteasia.com) shows real, current 2025-2026 activity, including a $350+ million first close of a pan-Asia private credit fund (backed by Temasek, Khazanah, and the Indonesia Investment Authority, closed December 2025) and a $110 million AI-focused IPO fund launched with DBS in February 2026. LinkedIn lists the firm's founding year as 2000, reflecting continuity with GGV Capital's original founding date rather than a fresh 2024 start. Granite Asia is led by Jenny Lee and Jixun Foo (both longtime GGV Capital partners) and reports AUM figures of $8.5 billion (per Wikipedia, 2025) to $10 billion (per its own site) in assets and co-managed capital, spanning venture capital, growth equity, and a newer private-credit business run partly through its Libra Hybrid Capital strategy. The firm also manages independent yuan-denominated funds in China through its subsidiary Jiyuan Capital. Its investment themes span consumer growth, enterprise workflow and supply chain, food systems and sustainability, health innovation, and energy transition/automation. Confirmed current and legacy portfolio companies include Manycore (an AI company Granite Asia/GGV has backed since 2014, through to IPO), Aureka (an AI-native biotech company that raised a $100 million Series B with Granite Asia's backing), Galatek (AI-enabled semiconductor automation), and Notta (AI transcription, backed via a Granite-Integral joint venture). One notable legacy investment, Chinese AI firm Megvii, was flagged by GGV/Granite Asia as an exit target following US sanctions.

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Greylock Partners is one of the oldest venture capital firms in the United States, founded in 1965 by Bill Elfers and Dan Gregory (later joined by Charlie Waite), originally based in Cambridge, Massachusetts. It opened its first Silicon Valley office in 1999 and relocated its main office to Menlo Park, California in 2009; its Israel operation was rebranded as an independent firm, 83North, in 2015. Greylock manages committed capital of over $3.5 billion, having raised a $1 billion 17th fund in 2023 and a $1.5 billion 18th fund in 2026. Current partners include David Sze, Reid Hoffman, and Mustafa Suleyman. The firm concentrates on early-stage investing in consumer and enterprise software, with a portfolio built over six decades that includes Facebook, LinkedIn, Airbnb, Flickr, and Digg. No Philippines-specific investment activity or presence was found.