Investors Directory

Accel is a major American venture capital firm founded in 1983 by Arthur Patterson and Jim Swartz, headquartered in Palo Alto, California, with additional offices in San Francisco, London (opened 2000), and India. The firm operates under what it calls a "prepared mind" investment philosophy, drawn from Louis Pasteur's idea that "chance favors the prepared mind," and employs roughly 300 people as of 2024. Accel invests across seed, early, and growth stages globally in enterprise software, SaaS, and consumer companies, and has raised numerous region-specific funds, including a $550 million India-focused fund (December 2019) and a $650 million Europe/Israel fund (May 2024). Its most famous investment was a $12.7 million stake for roughly 10% of Facebook in May 2005, worth about $6.6 billion at Facebook's 2012 IPO. Other notable portfolio companies include Dropbox, Spotify, Atlassian, Slack, and Flipkart. Recent fundraising has leaned further into artificial intelligence and cybersecurity alongside its traditional enterprise-software focus. Accel has no confirmed Philippines-specific investment activity or presence.

AgFunder is a global venture capital firm founded in 2013 by Rob Leclerc and Michael Dean, headquartered in San Francisco with a second office in Singapore covering Asia dealflow. The firm was built specifically around agrifoodtech — investing in deeptech aimed at bottlenecks in food, agriculture, and human and planetary health — and reports roughly US$300 million in assets under management across a portfolio of 100+ companies spanning four continents. It also runs AgFunderNews, an industry publication it founded to build awareness of the agrifoodtech investment category. AgFunder's portfolio spans robotics and farm automation, alternative proteins, climate and carbon-focused agtech, and biotech, with companies such as Bear Flag Robotics, Juicy Marbles, and DeHaat among its more recognized names. Its own portfolio page lists one clearly Philippine-focused company, Kita (described on AgFunder's site as "digitizing agrifood supply chains in the Philippines") — a genuine, if singular, Philippine connection within an otherwise globally distributed book.

Andreessen Horowitz, widely known by its shorthand a16z, is a venture capital firm founded on July 6, 2009 by Marc Andreessen (co-creator of the Mosaic and Netscape web browsers) and Ben Horowitz, both veterans of the enterprise software company Loudcloud/Opsware. Headquartered in Menlo Park, California, the firm has grown into one of the largest venture capital franchises in the world, reporting roughly $90 billion in assets under management as of early 2026 spread across a family of specialized funds covering traditional venture and growth investing as well as dedicated crypto, biotech, gaming, and American dynamism/defense-focused vehicles. The firm has backed a remarkable number of category-defining technology companies since its founding, including early or growth-stage investments in Airbnb, Coinbase, Stripe, GitHub (later acquired by Microsoft for $7.5 billion), Lyft, Figma, Roblox, and Twitter/X, alongside a fast-growing roster of defense-technology companies such as Anduril, Shield AI, Skydio, and Astranis. a16z is known for its large in-house team of operating partners, marketing, and policy staff supporting portfolio companies well beyond capital alone.

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Benchmark is a San Francisco-based venture capital firm (headquartered at 140 New Montgomery Street) founded in 1995 by five equal partners: Bob Kagle, Bruce Dunlevie, Andy Rachleff, Kevin Harvey, and Val Vaden. It is well known in the venture industry for a distinctive, deliberately flat partnership structure with no junior or senior partner titles and no CEO-like role — all partners share equal ownership and compensation, tied to investment performance rather than management fees. Benchmark specializes in early-stage investing, typically leading a company's first institutional round and taking a board seat. Its historical fund performance has been unusually strong: the firm's first eight funds (1995-2019) returned more than seven and a half times invested capital net of fees and carry, and later funds have continued to perform well. Notable investments and exits include eBay ($6.7M for a 22.1% stake in 1997), Uber ($12M for roughly 11% in 2011), Instagram, Dropbox, Snap, Discord, Twitter, Asana, Zendesk, Yelp, and Zillow. Benchmark has no confirmed Philippines-specific investment activity or presence.

Coatue Management is a New York-based investment firm founded in 1999 by Philippe Laffont, a former Tiger Management analyst, together with Thomas Laffont. What began as a technology-focused hedge fund has grown into a multi-strategy platform spanning public equities, venture capital, growth equity, and private equity, with assets under management reported around $70 billion as of a 2022 disclosure. Its venture and growth vehicles include a dedicated Early Stage Fund (roughly $700 million raised in 2019) and a Growth Fund series, with the fourth growth fund raising $3.5 billion in 2020. The firm has backed some of the best-known names in global technology, including Anthropic, ByteDance, DoorDash, Instacart, Snap, Spotify, and UiPath, reflecting a broad thesis across AI, consumer internet, and enterprise software. Coatue is known for moving quickly and at scale across both public and private technology markets, often continuing to back companies through growth and pre-IPO rounds after earlier venture investors have established the business.

Craft Ventures is a San Francisco-based venture capital firm founded in 2017 by David O. Sacks (a former PayPal and Yammer executive) and Bill Lee (formerly of Remarq and Big Fish Games). The firm positions itself as being built by founders and operators for founders, with additional leadership including StubHub founder Jeff Fluhr and EarthLink founder Sky Dayton, who joined as general and venture partners in 2018. Craft has raised roughly $850 million in total assets across its fund vehicles, including a $712 million early-stage fund (Craft Ventures IV) and a $608 million growth fund (Growth II), both announced in November 2023. The firm has backed companies such as CloudKitchens, the identity-verification company Harbor, crypto custody firm BitGo (an acquirer of a Craft portfolio company), autonomous cybersecurity platform Horizon3.ai, and agentic security company Neo.

EDBI is the dedicated corporate investment arm of the Singapore Economic Development Board (EDB), the Singapore government agency responsible for planning and executing strategies to strengthen the country's position as a global business hub. EDBI was established in 1991 and is headquartered in Singapore, operating as a global investor in high-growth technology companies with an explicit mandate tied to advancing Singapore's own strategic economic and industrial interests, rather than as a purely financial-return-driven independent fund. Leadership names and a specific fund-size/AUM figure were not confirmed in the sources reviewed for this profile. EDBI's stated investment focus spans Information & Communication Technology (ICT), Emerging Technology, and Healthcare, and its disclosed recent deal activity — including participation in large growth-stage rounds for the AI company Lumilens, US semiconductor firm HyperLight, Singapore-based chipmaker Silicon Box, AI company Amity, a majority-stake acquisition in Advanced Micro Foundry, and a follow-on investment in wastewater-treatment firm Hydroleap — shows a firm operating comfortably at global scale, well beyond a Singapore-only investment footprint, while still anchored to sectors of strategic national interest for Singapore.

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Founders Fund is a San Francisco-based (Letterman Digital Arts Center) venture capital firm founded in July 2005 by Peter Thiel, Ken Howery, and Luke Nosek — all early PayPal alumni. The firm manages approximately $17 billion in assets as of 2025 and has become known for a distinctly contrarian, "hard tech" investment identity, having expanded from primarily early-stage venture investing into late-stage and growth deals from 2019 onward, deploying increasingly large checks per company in its later funds. It opened a Miami office in 2021 and has made a growing number of investments in European and Asian startups. Founders Fund's portfolio spans SpaceX, Palantir Technologies, Anduril Industries, Facebook, Airbnb, Spotify, Stripe, Neuralink, and DeepMind, reflecting a shift over time from consumer internet bets toward defense technology, space, semiconductors, biotech, and artificial intelligence. It has been described as having perhaps the most formidable defense-technology portfolio in Silicon Valley. No Philippines-specific investment activity was confirmed from available sources.

VERIFICATION FINDING (per explicit request): Granite Asia is confirmed, via two independent current sources (Wikipedia's Granite Asia and GGV Capital articles, cross-checked against each other, plus the firm's own live official site) to be the genuine, currently-operating Asia-focused successor to GGV Capital's business. In September 2023, GGV Capital announced it would split its U.S. and Asia operations following a U.S. House Select Committee investigation into American venture capital's exposure to Chinese technology investments. The split completed on March 29, 2024, dividing GGV into two fully independent firms: Granite Asia (continuing the Asia-focused business — China, Southeast Asia, and South Asia — headquartered in Singapore) and Notable Capital (the separate, independent U.S.-focused successor). Granite Asia is genuinely active today, not a dormant rebrand — its official site (graniteasia.com) shows real, current 2025-2026 activity, including a $350+ million first close of a pan-Asia private credit fund (backed by Temasek, Khazanah, and the Indonesia Investment Authority, closed December 2025) and a $110 million AI-focused IPO fund launched with DBS in February 2026. LinkedIn lists the firm's founding year as 2000, reflecting continuity with GGV Capital's original founding date rather than a fresh 2024 start. Granite Asia is led by Jenny Lee and Jixun Foo (both longtime GGV Capital partners) and reports AUM figures of $8.5 billion (per Wikipedia, 2025) to $10 billion (per its own site) in assets and co-managed capital, spanning venture capital, growth equity, and a newer private-credit business run partly through its Libra Hybrid Capital strategy. The firm also manages independent yuan-denominated funds in China through its subsidiary Jiyuan Capital. Its investment themes span consumer growth, enterprise workflow and supply chain, food systems and sustainability, health innovation, and energy transition/automation. Confirmed current and legacy portfolio companies include Manycore (an AI company Granite Asia/GGV has backed since 2014, through to IPO), Aureka (an AI-native biotech company that raised a $100 million Series B with Granite Asia's backing), Galatek (AI-enabled semiconductor automation), and Notta (AI transcription, backed via a Granite-Integral joint venture). One notable legacy investment, Chinese AI firm Megvii, was flagged by GGV/Granite Asia as an exit target following US sanctions.

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Greylock Partners is one of the oldest venture capital firms in the United States, founded in 1965 by Bill Elfers and Dan Gregory (later joined by Charlie Waite), originally based in Cambridge, Massachusetts. It opened its first Silicon Valley office in 1999 and relocated its main office to Menlo Park, California in 2009; its Israel operation was rebranded as an independent firm, 83North, in 2015. Greylock manages committed capital of over $3.5 billion, having raised a $1 billion 17th fund in 2023 and a $1.5 billion 18th fund in 2026. Current partners include David Sze, Reid Hoffman, and Mustafa Suleyman. The firm concentrates on early-stage investing in consumer and enterprise software, with a portfolio built over six decades that includes Facebook, LinkedIn, Airbnb, Flickr, and Digg. No Philippines-specific investment activity or presence was found.

Insight Partners is a large venture capital and growth-equity firm founded in 1995 by Jeff Horing and Jerry Murdock. It is headquartered in New York City, with additional offices in London, Tel Aviv, and Palo Alto, and employs over 600 people. As of April 2025, the firm managed approximately $90 billion in assets. It raised $20 billion for its twelfth flagship fund in February 2022 (more than double its prior fund's size) and an additional $12.5 billion across its thirteenth flagship fund and a structured-equity vehicle in January 2025. Insight specializes in software and internet businesses, known for a heavily outbound, analyst-driven sourcing model backed by internal portfolio-support teams (ScaleUp). As of June 2025 it had invested in over 875 companies, including OpenAI, Databricks, Wiz Inc., Anthropic, Udemy, Shopify, and Monday.com. No Philippines-specific investment activity was confirmed from available sources.

Khosla Ventures is a Menlo Park, California-based venture capital firm founded in 2004 by Vinod Khosla, a former general partner at Kleiner Perkins and co-founder of Sun Microsystems. As of October 2021 the firm managed approximately $15 billion in assets, and by November 2023 it had closed $3.1 billion across three new funds. It maintains dedicated seed vehicles alongside larger growth-focused funds, investing from seed through late stage. Khosla Ventures targets internet, computing, mobile technology, artificial intelligence, financial services, agriculture, healthcare, and clean technology. Its portfolio includes DoorDash (invested 2013, $72B IPO valuation in 2020), Stripe, Square, Instacart (seed investment 2012, $11B market cap at 2020 IPO), Affirm, GitLab, and OpenAI (Khosla was OpenAI's first VC investor, in 2018). It has also made notable early climate/deep-tech bets in Commonwealth Fusion Systems and QuantumScape, and raised a $405 million vehicle in October 2024 specifically for a further OpenAI investment. No Philippines-specific investment activity was confirmed from available sources.