Investors Directory

IdeaSpace is a Philippine startup foundation and venture arm established in 2012, backed by First Pacific, Metro Pacific Investments Corporation (MPIC), PLDT-Smart, Meralco, and Maynilad — companies associated with businessman Manuel V. Pangilinan. It runs founder-focused accelerator programs for early-stage Filipino tech entrepreneurs. Since 2012, IdeaSpace has supported more than 100 startups, mentored over 300 entrepreneurs, and deployed roughly PHP 180 million toward ecosystem-building. It co-founded QBO Innovation Hub in 2016 alongside J.P. Morgan, DOST, and DTI, and continues to run recurring annual accelerator cohorts (its 10th batch was unveiled in 2023). Its venture arm, IdeaSpace Ventures, is positioned within the MPIC/MVP Group ecosystem, spanning mobility, healthcare, logistics, fintech, energy, digital infrastructure, and media.

IMPORTANT HONESTY NOTE, per the task's own instruction to verify rather than oversell this entry: Impact Hub Manila is NOT a capital-deploying investor in the way every other entry in this directory is. Its own website states this explicitly and unambiguously: "We back your venture — we don't run it. You keep your equity, your IP, your direction" — and no direct equity-investment or check-writing model is described anywhere on its site. It is, first and foremost, a coworking space, founder community, and program host — part of the global Impact Hub network (80+ locations across five regions, 25,000+ founders worldwide). Impact Hub Manila was founded in 2015 by Ces Rondario and is based at the 25th Floor, Picadilly Star, Bonifacio Global City, Taguig. Beyond its physical coworking space, it runs structured, largely non-equity support programs — INCUBATE, AI for Good, a Climate Adaptation Track, and periodic hackathons — which it says delivered roughly ₱42 million in "incubation value" (mentorship, training, grant-supported resources, and network access, not straightforward cash investment) across its 2026 cohort. It should be listed in this directory as a genuine, real, and long-running part of the Philippine startup support ecosystem — but as a community/incubation host, not as a source of venture capital.

Insight Partners is a large venture capital and growth-equity firm founded in 1995 by Jeff Horing and Jerry Murdock. It is headquartered in New York City, with additional offices in London, Tel Aviv, and Palo Alto, and employs over 600 people. As of April 2025, the firm managed approximately $90 billion in assets. It raised $20 billion for its twelfth flagship fund in February 2022 (more than double its prior fund's size) and an additional $12.5 billion across its thirteenth flagship fund and a structured-equity vehicle in January 2025. Insight specializes in software and internet businesses, known for a heavily outbound, analyst-driven sourcing model backed by internal portfolio-support teams (ScaleUp). As of June 2025 it had invested in over 875 companies, including OpenAI, Databricks, Wiz Inc., Anthropic, Udemy, Shopify, and Monday.com. No Philippines-specific investment activity was confirmed from available sources.

Insignia Ventures Partners is a Southeast Asian early-to-growth-stage venture capital firm founded in 2017 by Yinglan Tan, a former Sequoia Capital partner, headquartered in Singapore. The firm has raised over $800 million in assets under management across multiple funds, including a $516 million close in 2022, and has made roughly 160+ investments in about 89 companies. The firm is particularly active in Indonesia, Vietnam, and the Philippines. Its confirmed Philippine investments include Tonik, Southeast Asia's first all-digital "neobank," licensed by the Bangko Sentral ng Pilipinas, and First Circle, an SME trade-financing platform, where Insignia participated in an $8.6 million Series B round in 2024 alongside IFC and Endeavor.

Integra Partners is an early-stage venture capital firm headquartered in Singapore, co-founded by General Partner Chris Kaptein and Managing Partner Jinesh Patel. The firm's own materials reviewed for this profile did not disclose an exact founding year or fund size, though it presents itself as investing under a "profit meets purpose" philosophy across Southeast Asia and South Asia. The firm's stated geographic reach explicitly includes Indonesia, Bangladesh, and the Philippines alongside other regional markets, and its portfolio spans earned wage access, chronic healthcare management, e-commerce enablement, HR/payroll SaaS, environmental/sustainability platforms, and SME credit and financial-services technology — reflecting a thesis built around solving structural access gaps for underserved consumers and small businesses rather than one narrow vertical.

Iterative is a Southeast Asia-focused startup accelerator co-founded by Hsu Ken Ooi (previously founded Decide, acquired by eBay) and Brian Ma (co-founded Weave, a Y Combinator S14 company), describing itself as "founders supporting founders." Per its own site, the firm runs two accelerator batches a year, investing US$150,000 to US$500,000 into each admitted startup upfront, followed by a 12-week intensive program built around weekly mentor check-ins, growth-target setting, and a demo day pitching to investors at the end of the cohort. By its own count, Iterative has invested in 100+ companies and supports a community of 200+ founders across Southeast Asia, with its partners drawing on experience having collectively founded multiple companies, raised over $100M, and been through acquisitions. An exact founding year and headquarters city were not confirmed from publicly accessible sources during this research; the firm's own site copyrights its content 2021-2025, and general reporting places its roots in the Southeast Asian startup ecosystem (Vietnam has been cited in some secondary coverage), but this specific detail should be verified before publishing.

💰 Check size: $100K–$500K

IVP (Institutional Venture Partners) was founded in 1980 by Reid W. Dennis, who began his investment career in 1952 and had earlier founded the predecessor firm, Institutional Venture Associates, in 1974 with backing from American Express. IVP is headquartered in Menlo Park, California, with additional offices in San Francisco and London (opened August 2023). The firm currently manages approximately $7.0 billion in assets, with its most recent fund, Fund XVIII, raising $1.6 billion in 2024. IVP focuses on expansion- and late-stage technology companies, with general partner Jules Maltz describing its strategy as targeting "the 10 to 12 fastest growing, most prominent late stage tech companies each year." Over nearly five decades the firm has invested in roughly 200 companies and facilitated around 85 IPOs (as of 2008), with a portfolio spanning Seagate, Netflix, Twitter, Dropbox, Slack, Coinbase, and CrowdStrike, plus more recent European investments including Wise, UiPath, DeepL, and MySQL. No Philippines-specific investment activity was confirmed from available sources.

JG Digital Equity Ventures (JGDEV) is the corporate venture capital arm of JG Summit Holdings, one of the Philippines' largest diversified conglomerates, spanning food, real estate, air transportation, banking, and petrochemicals. It was launched in 2019 to formalize the group's approach to digital and startup investment. Its confirmed portfolio spans Series A/B-stage Philippine and regional technology companies, including sari-sari store enabler GrowSari, consumer lending platform Cashalo, receipt-scanning rewards platform Snapcart, and Philippine digital bank GoTyme Bank (via a stake in parent Tyme Group). It has also backed India-based HR technology platform Darwinbox, reflecting a mandate broader than the Philippines alone.

Jungle Ventures is one of Southeast Asia's largest early-stage venture capital firms, investing across Southeast Asia and India. The firm closed its third fund at $240 million in October 2019, and by May 2022 had closed a $600 million fourth fund, bringing its total assets under management to over $1 billion — placing it among the region's most capitalized homegrown venture platforms. (Note: this session could not independently verify Jungle Ventures' exact founding year or founder names through a live, fetchable source — no dedicated Wikipedia article exists for the firm, and its own website blocked automated access; this is stated honestly rather than guessed, and should be confirmed directly before publishing if precision on those two facts matters.) The firm's portfolio spans a wide range of sectors across the region, including logistics platform Waresix (Indonesia), electric-motorbike maker Dat Bike (Vietnam), interior design marketplace Livspace (India), hospitality brand RedDoorz, e-commerce enablement company TradeGecko, and business-services platform Sleek, alongside more recent bets in climate tech, edtech, and fintech.

Kaya Founders is an early-stage venture capital firm based in Makati, Metro Manila, founded in 2021 by operators-turned-investors Paulo Campos (former CEO, Zalora Philippines), Lisa Gokongwei-Cheng (CEO, Summit Media), and Ray Alimurung (former CEO, Lazada Philippines). The firm runs a stapled dual-fund structure -- a "Zero to One" pre-seed fund and a "One to Ten" seed-to-Series A fund -- and closed its second fund at US$25 million (about P1.47 billion) in November 2025. It has built a portfolio of 40+ startups since founding.

💰 Check size: $100K–$500K

Kejora Capital is a venture capital firm founded by Sebastian Togelang, operating with offices in both Singapore and Jakarta and investing primarily in Southeast Asia's digital economy, with a particular concentration in Indonesia. (Note: this session could not independently confirm Kejora Capital's exact founding year through any live, fetchable source — the firm's own site, kejoracapital.com, returned no readable content, and no dedicated Wikipedia article exists; other commonly-cited co-founder names for the wider Kejora Group could not be independently confirmed either and are deliberately not stated here as fact. Stated honestly rather than guessed.) The firm has run several distinct fund vehicles: a continuation fund of more than $150 million backed by Singapore's GIC (Government of Singapore Investment Corporation), used in part to back Indonesian logistics company SiCepat Ekspres; the SBI Kejora Orbit Fund I, a $30 million early-stage vehicle formed jointly with Japan's SBI Holdings; and a $25 million Series A-focused Malaysia fund launched in partnership with Sunway Group and anchored by MAVCAP, Malaysia's state-backed venture capital agency. Its Sebastian Togelang later went on to found a separate, independent venture firm, Rigel Capital. Portfolio companies include SiCepat Ekspres and Hipwee.

💰 Check size: $1M–$5M

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.