Investors Directory

Altara Ventures is a Singapore-based venture capital firm established in 2020, headquartered on Floor 28 of 9 Battery Road in Singapore, and led by a team of general partners including Chairman Koh Boon Hwee alongside Dave Ng, Seow Kiat Wang, Gavin Teo, and Tan Chow Boon. The firm reports roughly US$130 million in assets under management and describes its leadership as operators-turned-investors, with prior experience scaling companies such as Omni, Zynga, and Zuora to IPO, and a collective track record of generating more than US$1 billion in IPO proceeds across earlier ventures before formally launching Altara. Altara maintains an unusually wide on-the-ground presence for a fund of its size, with offices or investment activity spanning Singapore, the Philippines, Indonesia, Thailand, Vietnam, Malaysia, India, Hong Kong, South Korea, and the United States. Its disclosed portfolio directly includes the Philippine digital bank Tonik, alongside PropertyScout, Staffinc, Buy&Ship, Netbank, PolicyStreet, Kyan, Clevai, Allra, Hyperlounge, and Klinik Pintar — reflecting genuine, confirmed investment activity in the Philippine market, not just regional proximity.

A location note up front: CVC's true global headquarters is in St Helier, Jersey (a European/Channel Islands jurisdiction), which has no matching option in this directory's location schema. Rather than force an inaccurate Philippine or generic-Asia location, this entry uses CVC's actual Asia-Pacific regional headquarters — Hong Kong (Suite 3503, Two Exchange Square) — flagged explicitly here so this isn't mistaken for the firm's real global HQ. CVC traces its roots to 1981 as Citicorp Venture Capital, spun off as an independent firm in 1993 under founder Rolly van Rappard, and is now led by CEO Rob Lucas; it has been listed on Euronext Amsterdam since April 2024 and reports roughly €212 billion in assets under management (mid-2026) across private equity, credit, secondaries, and infrastructure strategies, with over 1,500 employees and around 30 offices worldwide. CVC has a genuine, substantial, and sustained Philippine investment track record — one of the deepest of any firm profiled in this batch. Confirmed Philippine deals include a roughly 15% stake in Rizal Commercial Banking Corporation (RCBC) for about US$115 million (2011); an investment in Fast Logistics Group to support Philippine expansion (2020, exited 2026); backing for Landers Superstore's branch-network expansion (2021); and, most recently, a majority 63.94% stake in hospital operator The Medical City (TMC), completed via tender offer in September 2025 through the roughly US$4.5 billion CVC Capital Partners Asia V fund. It has also invested regionally in Southeast Asia, including a 15% stake in Indonesian hospital chain Siloam International Hospitals (2016).

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Foxmont Capital Partners is a Philippines-focused venture capital firm founded in 2018, investing in early-stage, tech-enabled startups from seed through Series A (and, with its newest fund, up to Series B). Since inception it has deployed more than PHP 1 billion across two earlier funds. In 2025, Foxmont announced a $30 million first close for its third fund, anchored by the Dutch Good Growth Fund (DGGF) — the first development finance institution commitment to a Philippine-focused early-growth fund — with Grab Holdings also participating. More than half of that first close came from Philippine family offices.

IdeaSpace is a Philippine startup foundation and venture arm established in 2012, backed by First Pacific, Metro Pacific Investments Corporation (MPIC), PLDT-Smart, Meralco, and Maynilad — companies associated with businessman Manuel V. Pangilinan. It runs founder-focused accelerator programs for early-stage Filipino tech entrepreneurs. Since 2012, IdeaSpace has supported more than 100 startups, mentored over 300 entrepreneurs, and deployed roughly PHP 180 million toward ecosystem-building. It co-founded QBO Innovation Hub in 2016 alongside J.P. Morgan, DOST, and DTI, and continues to run recurring annual accelerator cohorts (its 10th batch was unveiled in 2023). Its venture arm, IdeaSpace Ventures, is positioned within the MPIC/MVP Group ecosystem, spanning mobility, healthcare, logistics, fintech, energy, digital infrastructure, and media.

Insignia Ventures Partners is a Southeast Asian early-to-growth-stage venture capital firm founded in 2017 by Yinglan Tan, a former Sequoia Capital partner, headquartered in Singapore. The firm has raised over $800 million in assets under management across multiple funds, including a $516 million close in 2022, and has made roughly 160+ investments in about 89 companies. The firm is particularly active in Indonesia, Vietnam, and the Philippines. Its confirmed Philippine investments include Tonik, Southeast Asia's first all-digital "neobank," licensed by the Bangko Sentral ng Pilipinas, and First Circle, an SME trade-financing platform, where Insignia participated in an $8.6 million Series B round in 2024 alongside IFC and Endeavor.

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.