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.

Seedstars is a Switzerland-based investment and acceleration platform founded in 2012 in Geneva by Pierre-Alain Masson, Michael Weber, and Adrien, three Swiss entrepreneurs, with Alisée de Tonnac joining shortly after as co-CEO and co-founder. It began as a global startup-competition circuit ("Seedstars World") run in dozens of emerging and frontier markets and has since grown into a broader investment platform, running seed and early-stage funds (including Seedstars International Ventures and, more recently, a dedicated Seedstars Africa Ventures fund that reported a US$42 million first close in late 2024) alongside its acceleration programs. The Philippines has a real, if modest, connection to Seedstars: "Seedstars Manila" is a recurring local leg of the global Seedstars World competition, which surfaces and pitches early-stage Philippine startups as part of the worldwide circuit. This is a competition/community touchpoint rather than confirmed direct fund investment into a named Philippine company — no specific Philippine investee was independently confirmed for this profile beyond the Manila competition itself.

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

A sourcing note before the profile itself: an initial search led to a different, seemingly inactive site (sierramadre.vc, describing a vague "Industrial Evolution" thesis with almost no accessible content) — cross-checking confirmed this is likely an unrelated or dormant project, not the real entity behind this name in the Philippine market. The firm actually matching "Sierra Madre" as an investor here is Sierra Madre Advisers, a Makati-headquartered private equity firm founded in 2015 (per PitchBook) and led by Managing Partners Danny Lizares, Martin Lorenzo, and Alasdair Thomson, who together describe roughly 60 years of combined operating and investment experience. Its office is at 1F First Lucky Place, 2259 Chino Roces Avenue Extension, Makati. Sierra Madre is explicitly Philippines-focused, branding itself "Investing in Philippine Potential," and backs founder-led and family-owned Philippine companies with flexible capital for growth, succession, buyouts, or carve-outs. Its named portfolio spans logistics (Ximex Delivery Express), staffing/technology (TeamQuest Technology), accounting/business services (Frontline Accounting), technology (Shellsoft Technology, Courxera Holdings), agriculture (Excelsior Farms), and hospitality (Mosaic Hospitality Solutions). The firm reports 15+ successful exits and states a 100% founder-retention rate across its portfolio.

SIG Venture Capital is the direct-investment venture arm of Susquehanna International Group (SIG), a privately-held quantitative trading and financial services firm founded in May 1987 by Jeff Yass, Arthur Dantchik, and a group of co-founders, headquartered in Bala Cynwyd, Pennsylvania. SIG is one of the world's largest privately-held financial services firms, with over $868 billion in total assets and 2024 revenue of $7.2 billion, built primarily on market-making, institutional brokerage, and proprietary trading in equities, fixed income, and derivatives. Its venture arm — often branded SIG Asia VC given its long regional history — has been actively investing in startups for more than 15 years, expanding into China in 2005 and Japan in 2014, and operates from SIG's global office network spanning the US, Europe (Dublin, London), and Asia (Shanghai, Beijing, Hong Kong, Tokyo). A distinguishing feature of SIG Venture Capital is that it invests its own permanent capital rather than raising and deploying a traditional fund with a fixed lifecycle — this lets it commit to portfolio companies over long, flexible time horizons across deal types and stages from Series A through pre-IPO. The team of 20+ investment and operations professionals has backed more than 50 companies with a combined reported revenue exceeding $2.5 billion and combined EBITDA over $350 million. Its best-known investment is ByteDance, where SIG made an initial $5 million bet in 2012 that had grown to a stake worth more than $15 billion by 2020; other confirmed investments include enterprise fintech company HighRadius, Indian grocery startup Otipy (which SIG led a $10.2 million Series A for), Chinese game-development platform MetaApp (SIG led a $100 million round), and Indonesian dental-care platform Satu Dental (a since-exited position).

💰 Check size: Over $5M

SPH Ventures is the corporate venture capital arm of Singapore Press Holdings (SPH), the Singaporean media and property conglomerate whose media business was restructured into the not-for-profit SPH Media Trust in 2021. Per its own investment activity, the firm has backed more than 40 companies to date, primarily across Southeast Asia, investing alongside other regional funds such as Quest Ventures. (Note: this session could not independently confirm SPH Ventures' exact founding year, current fund size, or its precise organizational status following SPH's 2021 media-business restructuring through any live, fetchable source — SPH's own corporate site and SPH Media's site could not be accessed by this session's tools, and no dedicated Wikipedia article exists for the venture arm. Stated honestly rather than guessed; should be confirmed directly before publishing.) Documented investments include Partipost (an influencer-marketing platform, which SPH Ventures led a $3.5 million round for), influence.co (a US-based influencer-marketing seed round), TheLorry (a Malaysia/Southeast Asia logistics platform, participating in a $5.85 million Series B), Pathmatics (co-led investment round), and Snapcart (a shopper-engagement and receipt-scanning app) — reflecting a thesis spanning digital media, influencer/ad-tech, logistics, and consumer engagement technology, sectors adjacent to SPH's own core media and publishing business.

The Startup Venture Fund is a direct government investment vehicle created under the Philippines' Innovative Startup Act (Republic Act 11337), administered by the National Development Company (NDC), an agency under the Department of Trade and Industry (DTI). Capitalized at ₱250 million and launched in November 2021, it makes direct co-investments into qualifying Filipino startups alongside accredited private-sector co-investment partners — a distinct role from partners such as IdeaSpace or Gobi-Core Philippine Fund (both separately listed in this directory), which are private co-investment partners of the fund rather than the government fund itself. A confirmed direct investment example is a ₱11 million commitment into SolX Technologies, a Philippine solar-energy startup, made in June 2024.

Tech Coast Angels was founded in 1997 by Luis Villalobos as one of the largest angel investor networks in the United States, built around a mutual-benefit nonprofit structure and originally centered on Southern California's Los Angeles, Orange County, and Inland Empire tech scenes. In January 2024 the organization rebranded to TCA Venture Group, a change it describes as reflecting a broader investment scope beyond technology alone — the network today spans roughly 400 individual angel investors organized across six regional chapters, including Orange County, Los Angeles, Pasadena, Inland Empire, and Florida/Georgia, plus additional members across the U.S. and Canada. Since 1997 the network has invested in more than 540 companies, deploying over $300 million of its own members' seed and early Series A capital, with its portfolio going on to attract more than $2.2 billion in follow-on investment. Notable exits include Procore Technologies, Mindbody, Green Dot Corporation, TrueCar, and Bluebeam Software, across 11 IPOs and 106+ total exits to date.

💰 Check size: $100K–$500K

Techstars is a global startup accelerator founded in 2006 in Boulder, Colorado by David Cohen, Brad Feld, David Brown, and future Colorado governor Jared Polis. It relocated its headquarters to New York City in February 2024, around the same time it consolidated operations and closed several of its original U.S. accelerator sites (including Boulder and Seattle). David Cohen returned as CEO in 2024 after Maëlle Gavet's resignation. Techstars runs intensive, cohort-based three-month accelerator programs built around mentorship, growth, and investment phases, typically admitting around 12 companies per cohort out of a roughly 1-2% acceptance rate. Each accepted company receives $220,000 in funding in exchange for 6% equity, plus access to benefits and perks the firm values at over $5 million, including $100,000 in AWS credits. Beyond the U.S., Techstars has run programs in cities including Paris, Dubai, Amsterdam, and across Africa. Notable alumni include Uber, DigitalOcean, SendGrid, Sketchfab, and Sphero. No Philippines- or Southeast Asia-specific program was found in available sources.

💰 Check size: $100K–$500K

TENCO Capital describes itself as a corporate venture capital firm backing startups in the Philippines and Southeast Asia, headquartered at the TPI-Motortrade Building on EDSA in Mandaluyong City, Metro Manila. The firm's own materials reviewed for this profile did not disclose a founding year, named founders or managing partners, or fund size — though its office address suggests a connection to the Motortrade group of companies, a well-known Philippine motorcycle and vehicle retail conglomerate, without the exact corporate relationship being explicitly confirmed on the firm's site. TENCO positions itself as sector-agnostic, prioritizing founder alignment and execution capability over any single vertical. Its publicly listed portfolio spans consumer, edtech, media, and fintech ventures operating primarily in the Philippines.

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.