Investors Directory

Rocketship.vc is a data-science-driven venture capital firm co-founded by serial entrepreneurs Venky Harinarayan and Anand Rajaraman, who previously co-founded Junglee (acquired by Amazon) and Kosmix (acquired by Walmart, later becoming @WalmartLabs). Its leadership also includes Managing Partners Madhu Shalini Iyer, former Chief Data Officer of Gojek, and Sailesh Ramakrishnan, co-founder of LocBox. The firm describes itself as remote-first, with a team drawing on backgrounds in data mining research (having co-authored what it describes as the most-downloaded data mining textbook) and prior work on NASA's Mars Exploration Rover mission. (Note: this session could not independently confirm Rocketship.vc's exact founding year through a live, fetchable source — stated honestly rather than guessed.) The firm has invested in more than 70 companies across at least 14 countries, spanning India (Apna, FamPay, Khatabook, Quizizz, NoBroker), Africa (Chipper Cash, Kippa), the Middle East (Sary, Qashio), Latin America (Trocafone), Indonesia (BukuWarung, Kitalulus), and the U.S. (early investments in Facebook and Lyft), with several exits including Paperspace, Locus, and Later.

Sequoia Capital is one of the world's most prominent venture capital firms, founded in 1972 by Don Valentine in Menlo Park, California, where it remains headquartered today. As of late 2025 the firm is led by joint managing partners Alfred Lin and Pat Grady, and it reports roughly US$56.3 billion in assets under management as of 2024 — placing it among the largest and longest-running venture firms in the world. Note for this profile specifically: Sequoia's own India and Southeast Asia investment arm formally separated from the firm in June 2023 and now operates independently under the name Peak XV Partners (led by Shailendra Singh and GV Ravishankar); this entry describes Sequoia Capital itself, the original U.S.- and Europe-focused parent firm, not Peak XV. Sequoia's investment history spans more than five decades of category-defining technology bets, from early backing of Apple (1978), Atari (1975), and Cisco through to modern-era investments in Google, WhatsApp, Airbnb, Stripe, YouTube, and Snowflake. The firm's track record is not without high-profile losses — it wrote down its roughly US$214 million investment in the cryptocurrency exchange FTX to zero following FTX's 2022 collapse, a widely reported setback for the firm.

💰 Check size: Over $5M

Thrive Capital is a New York-based venture capital and growth-equity firm founded in 2009 by Joshua Kushner, who was 24 years old at the time. Starting with a first fund of just $5 million, the firm has grown into one of the most prominent technology investors of its generation — assets under management were reported at over $50 billion as of 2026, with its tenth flagship fund alone targeting more than $10 billion. Unlike many venture firms that spread capital across a large number of bets, Thrive has been known for concentrating conviction in a relatively small number of companies, aiming to build deep, multi-round relationships with founders. Former Harvard Business School dean Nitin Nohria joined as the firm's first executive chair in 2022. Thrive was an early investor in Instagram, GitHub, Spotify, and Twitch, and its more recent portfolio spans Stripe, Databricks, OpenAI, and A24 — reflecting a broad mandate across internet, software, and AI-enabled businesses rather than a single narrow sector.

Tiger Global Management is a New York City-based investment firm (Solow Building, 9 West 57th Street) founded in March 2001 by Chase Coleman III, a former Tiger Management analyst and protege of Julian Robertson who received over $25 million in seed capital to launch the fund as one of the original "Tiger Cubs." As of May 2024 the firm managed approximately $55.9 billion in assets with 162 employees. Tiger Global runs two roughly equally sized strategies: public equities (long-short hedge funds investing in publicly traded companies) and private equity/venture capital (historically led by Scott Shleifer until his departure in November 2023). It focuses on internet, software, consumer, and financial-technology companies, typically concentrating on later, growth-stage private rounds, and has invested in Facebook, LinkedIn, Stripe, Coinbase, Spotify, ByteDance, Nubank, and SenseTime. After severe losses in 2022 (its hedge fund declined roughly 52%), the firm rebounded with about 24% returns in 2024 alongside a broader recovery in technology stocks. No Philippines-specific investment activity was confirmed from available sources.

TNB Aura is a Singapore-headquartered, thesis-led venture capital firm whose founding team includes Charles Wong, Meng Wah Ng, and Rajesh Budhrani. The firm's own site could not be directly accessed for this profile (it blocks automated fetching), so this entry is built from its LinkedIn company profile and general public record rather than its own about page — flagged honestly rather than treated as fully verified against the primary source. It describes itself as a data-driven, high-conviction investor that aims to be a genuine operating partner to its portfolio companies rather than a passive check-writer. Its named portfolio includes companies such as PRISM+, Charge+, Niber Technologies, Gush, and TECHCOOP, spanning sectors from consumer electronics to electric mobility. Its stated geographic focus is Southeast Asia, with specific activity identified in Thailand, Vietnam, Indonesia, Malaysia, and Singapore — no Philippine investment or Philippine market mention was found in any source checked for this profile.

💰 Check size: $1M–$5M

Vertex Ventures is the venture capital brand of Vertex Holdings, a Singapore-headquartered investment holding company established over 30 years ago as a venture arm connected to Temasek. Rather than operating as a single fund, Vertex is structured as a network of seven independently-managed regional and sector partnerships — Vertex Ventures US, Vertex Ventures Israel, Vertex Ventures China, Vertex Ventures Southeast Asia & India, Vertex Ventures Japan, Vertex Ventures HC (healthcare), and Vertex Growth — collectively managing roughly US$6.8 billion in assets with more than 100 investment professionals globally and over 300 active portfolio companies. The entity most directly relevant to Southeast Asia, Vertex Ventures Southeast Asia & India, is led by managing partners Kee Lock Chua, Joo Hock Chua, and Ben Mathias, is headquartered at Raffles City Tower in Singapore, and manages approximately US$1.5 billion. It has backed more than 90 companies including regional ride-hailing and delivery giant Grab, alongside other network-wide portfolio companies such as CyberArk, NIUM (formerly Instarem), Waze, and Desktop Metal.

Vickers Venture Partners is a Singapore-headquartered venture capital firm founded in 2005 by Finian Tan, a former DFJ ePlanet partner known for an early investment in Baidu. The firm has since built a global office network spanning Shanghai, Hong Kong, New York, San Diego, San Francisco/Silicon Valley, London, and Kuala Lumpur, and in December 2021 announced it had raised over US$250 million for a fund emphasizing deep-tech investments worldwide. Vickers invests across life sciences, technology, media and telecommunications, consumer services, and financial services, with portfolio companies whose combined market value has been reported at more than US$100 billion. Notable investments and exits include Baidu, Focus Media Holding, Kongzhong Corporation, biotech company Samumed, and fintech infrastructure firm M-DAQ.

Wavemaker Partners is a venture capital firm founded in 2012 by Paul Santos (Singapore) and Eric Manlunas (Los Angeles), grown out of the Draper Venture Network into a bi-coastal firm spanning Southeast Asia and Southern California. Its Asian fund focuses on enterprise, deep tech, and sustainability, with the Philippines as one of its core Southeast Asian markets alongside Singapore, Indonesia, Vietnam, and Thailand. Since 2012, Wavemaker has backed more than 200 companies region-wide, with over $500 million in total committed capital and exits generating over $2 billion in enterprise value. It operates three fund strategies — Wavemaker Ventures (early-stage), Wavemaker Impact (venture building for climate/decarbonization), and Wavemaker Growth (growth-stage).