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Battery Ventures is a venture capital and private equity firm founded in 1983 by Rick Frisbie, Howard Anderson, and Bob Barrett in Boston, Massachusetts, where it remains headquartered. It has additional offices in Silicon Valley, San Francisco, Tel Aviv, London, and New York City. The firm has raised more than $13 billion since inception and is currently investing its fourteenth generation of funds — Battery Ventures XIV and Battery Ventures Select Fund II — with combined capitalization of $3.8 billion. Battery invests across both venture capital and private-equity strategies, spanning application software, infrastructure software, consumer technology, industrial tech, and life sciences, with a global footprint concentrated in North America, Europe, and Israel. As of 2025 the firm has invested in more than 530 companies, with 70 public-company outcomes and 185 mergers/acquisitions among its exits. No Philippines-specific investment activity was confirmed from available sources.

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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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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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.