Investors Directory

Navegar is a Philippine-focused private equity firm founded in 2011 and headquartered in Makati, formed in partnership with Swedish investment group Brummer & Partners. Unlike most entries here, Navegar does not write early-stage checks — it provides growth capital to already-profitable, mid-sized Philippine companies that need capital and an active ownership partner to scale further. Its best-known deal is a million strategic investment into TaskUs in 2015, when the outsourcing company was already profitable on a roughly million revenue run rate — Navegar's capital and board involvement helped fund TaskUs's growth before it went public on Nasdaq. Its broader portfolio spans outsourcing, food and beverage, healthcare, logistics, and e-commerce, and includes Great Deals E-Commerce Corp., itself already profiled in this directory. Now managing roughly million across two funds, with backers including Sweden's Swedfund and the IFC, Navegar has raised a third fund targeting ( million to keep backing mid-sized Philippine businesses through what its own managing partners have publicly called the country's uneven post-pandemic recovery.

💰 Check size: Over $5M

New Enterprise Associates (NEA) is one of the world's largest venture capital firms, founded in 1977 by C. Richard Kramlich, Charles Newhall III, and Frank Bonsal Jr. It is headquartered in Menlo Park, California, with additional U.S. offices in Timonium, Maryland and New York City, and an international presence spanning London, Mumbai, Bangalore, Beijing, and Shanghai. The firm is currently led by Scott Sandell as Executive Chairman, with Tony Florence and Mohamad Makhzoumi as Co-CEOs. NEA manages approximately $25 billion in committed capital as of 2023. Its funds have grown from an initial $16 million to its sixteenth fund, which closed at $3.3 billion in 2017. Since its founding, NEA has backed nearly 1,000 companies across technology and healthcare, generating over 650 liquidity events including more than 250 IPOs and 300+ acquisitions. Recent notable investments include Databricks, Acadia Pharmaceuticals, Amicus Therapeutics, Clovis Oncology, and Tesaro. No Philippines-specific investment activity was confirmed from available sources, though NEA does have an active China and India presence.

Northstar Group is a Singapore-headquartered investment firm founded in 2003, partly owned by U.S. private equity firm TPG Capital, dedicated to growth-stage investments in Indonesia and other Southeast Asian markets across technology, retail, and financial services. Unlike most entries in this directory, Northstar is a growth-stage private equity firm rather than an early-stage venture capital fund — categorized here as vc-fund only because this platform's taxonomy has no dedicated private-equity category, the same treatment already used for the existing Navegar entry. Northstar's early-stage venture arm, NSI Ventures, later spun off and rebranded as the independent firm Openspace Ventures — already a separate entry in this directory — and Northstar's own remaining fund today operates strictly at growth/PE stage, a genuinely separate entity that should not be conflated with Openspace. Northstar's private equity fund was a follow-on investor in Gojek (the Indonesian ride-hailing and super-app company, alongside NSI Ventures/Openspace's earlier 2014 seed round) as part of Gojek's $550 million August 2016 round, and also holds a stake in Indomaret, one of Indonesia's largest retail convenience-store chains. In a more recent fundraise, the firm secured an initial $800 million tranche for continued growth-stage investing in the region.

💰 Check size: Over $5M

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.

💰 Check size: Over $5M

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.

Quest Ventures is a Singapore-based venture capital firm founded in 2011 by James Tan and Wang Yunming (also known for co-founding the Chinese group-buying company 55tuan). The firm reports over US$80 million in assets under management and describes itself as among the top 10 most active investors in Southeast Asia and Central Asia, with a portfolio of 150+ companies across roughly 150 cities in Asia as of the mid-2020s. Its named portfolio spans marketplaces, fintech, proptech, and media, including well-known Southeast Asian names such as Carousell, ShopBack, 99.co, Carro, Xfers, and Kredivo. Checking its own portfolio listing directly for this profile, no company was found explicitly tagged to the Philippines — its identifiable geographic activity concentrates in Singapore, Indonesia, Malaysia, Vietnam, and other parts of Southeast and Central Asia, without a confirmed Philippine investment.

Rebright Partners is an early-stage venture capital firm founded in 2008 by Takeshi Ebihara, a 30-year venture capital veteran and serial entrepreneur who previously founded internet companies including one that reached a public listing. The firm is headquartered in Tokyo, Japan, with additional offices in Bengaluru, India and Singapore, and describes itself as "the gateway between Japan, ASEAN and India" — backed by prominent Japanese corporate and institutional investors and leveraging that network to help portfolio startups expand regionally and forge partnerships with major Japanese technology companies. Its investment team includes Partner Brij Bhasin (co-founder of GSF Accelerator, an early advisor at Little Eye Labs, which was acquired by Facebook in 2014) and Principal Mahesh Kumar (formerly of Sony Innovation Fund). The firm has built a portfolio of more than 35 companies across India, Indonesia, Malaysia, the Philippines, Singapore, and Thailand, spanning healthcare (MediBuddy, Virohan, Nivaan, Instalimb), e-commerce (Bukalapak, Qraved, Elanic), edtech (Codingal, Stimuler), logistics and mobility (LetsTransport, ClickPost, Numocity — later acquired by ABB e-Mobility), agritech (Aquaconnect, Eggoz), and fintech/insurtech. Its one confirmed Philippine investment is Coins.ph, the cryptocurrency and blockchain-based financial services platform.

Ribbit Capital is a Palo Alto-based venture capital firm founded in 2012 by Venezuelan entrepreneur Micky Malka, focused almost exclusively on financial technology. The firm reported roughly $12 billion in assets under management as of 2024, run by a lean team of around 30 people, and is known for concentrating large amounts of capital in a small number of high-conviction fintech bets rather than building a broad, diversified portfolio. Ribbit's best-known investment is Robinhood Markets, where it has deployed more than $500 million since first backing the trading app in 2014; other portfolio companies include Coinbase, the Brazilian digital bank Nubank, and Credit Karma. It also backed One, a fintech venture later folded into Walmart, valued at $2.5 billion in 2024. The firm's name comes from the Hebrew word ribit, meaning interest.