About Navegar
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.
Investment Thesis
Navegar provides growth-stage capital and active, hands-on ownership (typically board seats and operational involvement, not passive minority stakes) to established, already-profitable Philippine companies across a range of consumer and services sectors, not a single vertical. It looks for founders and management teams who need capital plus a genuine operating partner to professionalize and scale a business that has already proven its model, rather than fund pre-revenue ideas. Its confirmed check sizes run well into eight figures for its largest deals (its TaskUs investment alone was $15 million), and it typically takes a multi-year hold with a real exit plan, having already realized two exits from its existing portfolio.
Portfolio Companies
TaskUs, Great Deals E-Commerce Corp., Cloudstaff, Bo's Coffee, The Bistro Group, Intellicare, Inteluck, Dali, Royale Cold Storage, Global Care Medical Centers, MDI Novare