Investors Directory

Amasia is a thesis-driven venture capital firm founded in 2013 by Ramanan Raghavendran and John Kim, headquartered in Burlingame, California, investing globally in the US, Southeast Asia, India, Europe, and Latin America. Its Philippine connection is real but concentrated in a small number of deals rather than a dedicated local fund: Coins.ph, a Manila-founded fintech, was Amasia's first-ever investment (since exited), and in 2024 the firm was among the investors in a $6.5 million pre-Series A round for Hive Health, a Manila-based SME health-insurance startup that later acquired one of the Philippines' oldest HMOs.

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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Atlas Venture (the firm's own branding uses the singular "Venture," though it is commonly referred to as "Atlas Ventures") is a venture capital firm headquartered in Cambridge, Massachusetts. It traces its roots to 1980, when it was founded in Amsterdam by Michiel de Haan as a subsidiary of NMB Bank (now part of ING Group), before later relocating its center of gravity to the United States. The firm has raised its most recent flagship vehicle, Fund XIV, at $450 million (closed December 2024), and reports roughly $2.7 billion in assets under management with about 29 employees operating from a single Cambridge office today, having previously also maintained offices in London, Paris, Munich, and Seattle. In October 2014, Atlas underwent a major strategic shift, exiting technology investing entirely to focus exclusively on biotechnology. Its technology-focused investment team spun out to form a separate firm, Accomplice, to continue backing IT and software startups. Atlas Venture has no confirmed Philippine or Southeast Asian investment activity based on sources reviewed for this profile — it operates as a U.S.- and Europe-oriented life sciences investor.

BEENEXT is a Singapore-headquartered, founder-first venture capital firm (office at One George Street) led by founder and CEO Teruhide Sato, a Japanese entrepreneur, alongside a leadership team of Managing Partners Dirk Van Quaquebeke, Hiro Maeda, and Hero Choudhary, and Operating Partner Nao Ito. This session could not independently confirm an exact founding year via a live source (BEENEXT is widely reported elsewhere as founded around 2015, but that figure was not re-verified against a primary source this session, so it is stated here only as commonly reported, not confirmed). The firm describes its portfolio as spanning roughly 180 companies across 17 countries and five continents, concentrated most heavily in India, Southeast Asia, and Japan, with additional activity in the U.S. It also runs a dedicated vehicle, the ALL STAR SAAS FUND, focused on Japan-based SaaS companies. Named portfolio companies include BharatPe, Instamojo, and Servify in India, and Akseleran and Ralali in Indonesia. Its own portfolio page includes "Philippines" as a region filter option, implying at least one Philippine investment exists or has existed in the book, but no Philippine company could be identified by name in the content actually accessible this session — flagged honestly as an unconfirmed connection rather than a stated one.

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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Endeavor Catalyst is the rules-based co-investment fund of Endeavor, the global nonprofit network that supports high-growth entrepreneurs across more than 50 markets worldwide. Rather than sourcing its own independent deal flow like a typical VC fund, Catalyst invests exclusively alongside other lead investors into companies founded by entrepreneurs who have already been selected into the Endeavor network — a structural model designed to help make Endeavor's global operations more financially self-sustaining while giving its portfolio founders access to growth capital. The fund manages more than $540 million in assets under management, has made over 400 investments across 35+ countries, and has recorded 37 exits to date. Catalyst's disclosed portfolio includes well-known global names such as Brex, Bitso, Cabify, Bukalapak, Blueground, Asaas, and Altruist, with 71 of its backed companies having reached unicorn ($1 billion+) valuations. Its investment activity spans fintech, B2B software, commerce, healthcare, and marketplace/proptech companies across Latin America, Europe, Asia, the Middle East, and the United States and Canada. An exact founding year and headquarters address for the fund specifically were not confirmed in sources reviewed for this profile.

General Atlantic is a global growth-equity investment firm founded in 1980 by Charles F. Feeney (the billionaire co-founder of Duty Free Shoppers) as the investment arm of Atlantic Philanthropies, headquartered in New York City (Park Avenue Plaza), with William E. Ford serving as CEO since joining the firm in 1991. It has grown into one of the largest growth investors globally, reporting roughly US$130 billion in assets under management, more than 900 employees, and a footprint of over 20 offices spanning North America, Latin America, Europe, the Middle East, Africa, and Asia-Pacific — including Mumbai, Shanghai, Hong Kong, Singapore, Tokyo, and Seoul in Asia. No Philippine investment could be confirmed for General Atlantic in the sources checked this session. Its closest regional activity is in South Asia and elsewhere in Asia-Pacific — a minority stake in TBO (an India-based travel-tech platform, October 2023) and a major 2020 investment in Jio Platforms (India) — alongside globally recognized names such as Royalty Pharma, Kiwi.com, Joe & The Juice, and Actis Capital (a sustainable-infrastructure investor it acquired in 2024). This is an honest gap, not an oversight: General Atlantic's Southeast Asia activity appears real but concentrated in Singapore-based regional deals rather than the Philippines specifically.

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Golden Gate Ventures is a Southeast Asian venture capital firm founded in 2011 and headquartered in Singapore, with additional offices in Jakarta, Hanoi, and Ho Chi Minh City. It was co-founded by Vinnie Lauria, Jeffrey Paine, and Paul Bragiel and was one of the earliest institutional VC firms built specifically around the Southeast Asian startup market rather than a global or single-country mandate. The firm has backed roughly 40+ companies across the region and reports total assets under management in the hundreds of millions of dollars as of the mid-2020s. A note on relevance for this directory: an earlier research pass on this project could not confirm any Philippine-specific deal for Golden Gate Ventures. On direct verification against the firm's own website, this is only partly true — its own portfolio page lists one Philippine company, Kita (an agritech/fintech platform for farmers), tagged under "Philippines." Beyond that single entry, the firm's public activity remains heavily concentrated in Indonesia, Vietnam, and Singapore, with no other confirmed Philippine investment found.

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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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.

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.