Investors Directory

Kickstart Ventures is the corporate venture capital arm of Globe Telecom, founded in 2012 and headquartered in Makati. It is the Philippines' largest corporate VC by track record, having participated in dozens of funding rounds across multiple countries and built a portfolio of roughly 70 local and international companies. Kickstart also advises the Ayala Corporation Technology Innovation Venture (ACTIVE) Fund. Its core differentiator is direct access to the Globe and Ayala corporate ecosystems — retail networks, logistics infrastructure, and telecom distribution — that it can plug portfolio startups into directly, rather than acting purely as a capital provider.

Kleiner Perkins is one of Silicon Valley's oldest and most storied venture capital firms, founded in 1972 by Eugene Kleiner, Thomas Perkins, Frank J. Caufield, and Brook Byers. It is headquartered in Menlo Park, California, with additional offices in San Francisco and Shanghai, China. Longtime partner John Doerr currently serves as chairman. As of 2026 the firm manages roughly $21 billion in assets across 22 venture funds and six growth funds; by 1996 it had already funded around 260 companies totaling $880 million. Kleiner Perkins invests across seed, early, and growth stages, concentrated in consumer, enterprise, hard tech, and fintech, with an expanded emphasis in recent years on life sciences and artificial intelligence. Its historic investments include Google ($12 million in 1999), Amazon.com (an $8 million investment that generated over $1 billion in returns), and Netscape; more recent notable bets include Anthropic, Waymo, and Applied Intuition. No Philippines-specific investment activity or presence was found.

Leave a Nest Capital is the venture investment arm of Leave a Nest Co., Ltd. (known in Japan as リバネス), a Tokyo-headquartered "knowledge manufacturing" company founded in 2002 that describes its mission as connecting science and technology to real-world problem-solving. The parent company operates seven development divisions spanning education, human resources, R&D, startups, regional development, manufacturing, and strategy, and is best known internationally for TECH PLANTER, a global deep-tech startup pitch and acceleration program it runs across multiple countries. Leave a Nest Capital's own exact founding year, total fund size, and named fund managers were not disclosed in the sources reviewed for this profile. Leave a Nest has a confirmed, genuine presence in the Philippines: regional business press has reported the firm running a TECH PLANTER startup pitch contest in the Philippines and disclosed plans to open a local branch office in Metro Manila, alongside stated expansion into Thailand and Taiwan — evidence of real, ongoing Southeast Asian activity rather than a purely Japan-domestic operation. The firm's investment activity is tightly linked to its TECH PLANTER program, which functions as a deep-tech deal-sourcing and founder-development pipeline feeding into direct investments by Leave a Nest Capital.

Lightspeed Venture Partners is a global venture capital firm founded in 2000 by four Stanford graduates — Barry Eggers, Christopher Schaepe, Ravi Mhatre, and Peter Nieh — who had previously worked together at Weiss, Peck & Greer. Headquartered in Menlo Park, California, the firm has grown to eleven offices across North America, Europe, and Asia-Pacific, including San Francisco, New York, Tel Aviv, New Delhi, Bangalore, Mumbai, Singapore, London, Paris, and Berlin. Reported assets under management range from roughly $35 billion (2023) to $50 billion depending on the source, and the firm raised $7.1 billion across multiple funds in 2022 alone. Lightspeed invests across seed, early, and growth stages in enterprise software, fintech, consumer technology, and healthcare. Notable investments include Snapchat (early investor), Nest (acquired by Google for $3.2 billion), MuleSoft (acquired by Salesforce for $6.5 billion), Nutanix, Affirm, and Guardant Health. The firm maintains an active Singapore office as part of its Asia-Pacific presence, though no Philippines-specific investment activity was confirmed from available sources.

UNRESOLVED — FLAGGED FOR OWNER REVIEW, NOT A VERIFIED PROFILE. A significant, genuine research effort (the firm's own likely domain names, Wikipedia, Crunchbase, Tracxn, and several Southeast Asian tech-press sites) could not turn up a confirmable, real firm matching the name "M Venture Partners (MVP)" that this profile could responsibly describe. Two similarly-named but confirmed-DIFFERENT entities were found and explicitly ruled out rather than substituted in: (1) "Manhattan Venture Partners" (mvp.vc), a New York-based secondary-market investor in late-stage private technology companies (Anthropic, xAI, Klarna, Discord among its disclosed holdings) — a real firm, but its own site never refers to itself as "M Venture Partners," only "Manhattan Venture Partners," so it was not used here; and (2) an unrelated Malaysian vaccine/pharmaceutical manufacturer that happens to also use the initials MVP. No content was fabricated to fill this gap.

Manila Angel Investors Network (MAIN) was founded in 2016 and is registered with the Philippine Securities and Exchange Commission as a non-stock, non-profit organization. It is the largest committed private investor network in the Philippines, connecting individual angel investors with promising early-stage Filipino companies. Beyond capital, MAIN provides mentorship, expertise support, and networking opportunities to the founders it backs. It invests at the pre-seed, seed, and Series A stages, and has backed early-stage companies including Kumu, Booky, and TANGGapp.

MDI Ventures is the corporate venture capital arm of Telkom Group, Indonesia's largest telecommunications company, founded in 2016 and headquartered in Jakarta, Indonesia. The firm is led by CEO Nicko Widjaja, with Fajrin Rasyid (also CEO of Telkom) serving as Chairman. Rather than operating a single fund, MDI manages a family of vehicles including a US$500 million digitalization fund, the US$150 million Centauri Fund co-managed with KB Investment, and the US$40 million Arise Fund co-managed with Finch Capital, and reports having generated more than US$708 million in cumulative synergy value with Telkom's business by 2023. MDI describes itself as a "global multi-stage VC firm for local founders," investing from seed through growth stage across the digital economy with a deliberate emphasis on creating operational synergies between its portfolio companies and Telkom Group's own telecommunications and enterprise infrastructure. Its disclosed portfolio spans fintech, healthtech, edtech, and enterprise software companies primarily in Indonesia, with regional activity extending into Southeast Asia and select investments in Singapore and Australia.

Monk's Hill Ventures is a Southeast Asia-focused venture capital firm founded in 2014 by Peng T. Ong and Kuo-Yi Lim, both experienced regional tech entrepreneurs and investors. The firm is headquartered in Singapore at 1 George Street, with additional on-the-ground presence in Jakarta, Indonesia and Ho Chi Minh City, Vietnam, reflecting its regional coverage strategy. Monk's Hill states it has invested in more than 50 fast-growing startups across Southeast Asia since founding. The firm's portfolio spans a wide range of business models across the region, including logistics unicorn Ninja Van, edtech platform ELSA, and fintech, healthtech, HR tech, and SaaS companies operating across Singapore, Indonesia, Vietnam, and the wider Southeast Asian market. Monk's Hill also runs community initiatives for its portfolio founders, including the SEA Connect and Angsana Council programs.

Mynavi Corporation is a large Japanese information-services conglomerate founded on August 15, 1973 as Mainichi Communications Inc., adopting the Mynavi name in 2011. It is headquartered in Chiyoda, Tokyo (Palaceside Building), the same building as Mainichi Newspapers, with which it was historically affiliated — though Mynavi's own shareholding tie to Mainichi has since dropped below 10%, and Mainichi now describes it only as a "friendly company" rather than a subsidiary. As of October 2024 Mynavi had roughly 7,621 employees. Its core businesses span employment/recruitment media (new-graduate hiring, career changes, temporary staffing), publishing, real estate information, bridal services, and travel content, operated across numerous Mynavi-branded portal sites, with overseas operations in the United States (New York), China (Beijing), and South Korea (Seoul). Beyond its core media/recruitment business, Mynavi has made direct startup investments, most notably a multi-round investment (starting January 2019, with further rounds through 2024) in Nosh, a Japanese frozen prepared-meal delivery service. No Philippines- or Southeast Asia-specific investment activity was confirmed from available sources for this profile.

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.

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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.

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