Investors Directory

AC Ventures — which brands itself as ACV Capital — traces its roots to 2014, when Adrian Li and Donald Wihardja founded Convergence Ventures, an early-stage fund dedicated to Indonesia's digital disruptors. Convergence's first fund, Convergence Capital I, closed at $30 million in 2016 and backed early companies including Helpster (job-matching), ReWork (co-working), and Laku6 (used-phone recommerce). Convergence Ventures later merged with fellow Indonesian VC Agaeti Venture Capital to form AC Ventures, which has since grown into one of Southeast Asia's more active growth-equity platforms. Today AC Ventures is led by founders and managing partners Michael Soerijadji and Adrian Li, alongside managing partner Helen Wong, headquartered at Prosperity Tower in Jakarta Selatan, Indonesia (with an additional Malaysia office). The firm states it manages over US$500 million across five funds, has invested in more than 100 companies across the region, and describes its portfolio — which includes Xendit, Carsome, Stockbit, Julo, Brik, Kargo, and Bibit — as having created more than $7 billion in combined market capitalization. AC Ventures frames its approach as "founders investing in founders," emphasizing operational support and regional market insight alongside capital.

A naming note up front: effective July 31, 2025, ACA Investments Pte. Ltd. — the Singapore-based entity of the Japanese ACA Group, in strategic alliance with Daiwa Securities Group since 2018 — formally changed its name to Felicity Global Capital Pte. Ltd. This profile is written under the name the firm is generally known by (ACA Investments), with the rename noted honestly rather than silently updated, since most public deal records and press coverage still refer to it as ACA Investments. Founded in 2008 and headquartered in Singapore (8 Temasek Boulevard, Suntec Tower 3), the firm describes its mission as "bridging Japan and Southeast Asia," combining Japanese capital and corporate relationships with growth opportunities across Southeast Asian and broader Asia-Pacific markets. ACA Investments has a genuine, confirmed Philippine investment: it participated in Sprout Solutions' (a Philippine HR-tech/payroll SaaS company) US$10.7 million Series B round in 2023, alongside Cercano Management, SoftBank Ventures Asia, AFG Partners, GSR Ventures, and others. Its broader portfolio spans Japan and Southeast Asia across fintech, media, biotech, healthtech, e-commerce, and deep tech, including SmartNews, Gojo & Company (microfinance), H3 Dynamics, FreeD Group, iPrice, InstaPay, bitFlyer, and HealthMetrics — reflecting a growth-stage, sector-agnostic mandate rather than a narrow thesis.

ADB Ventures is the venture-investment facility of the Asian Development Bank (ADB), a multilateral development bank founded in 1966 and headquartered at 6 ADB Avenue, Mandaluyong City, Metro Manila — meaning ADB Ventures itself is genuinely Philippine-based, unlike most other names on this list. It was launched in 2020 to "scale technology solutions for impact in Asia and the Pacific," positioning itself as an ImpactTech investment platform rather than a conventional commercial VC fund. It operates alongside related ADB initiatives such as the SEEK Fund (which offers seed funding of up to roughly US$400,000) and NextFin Asia. The firm's own portfolio/investments page (adbventures.com) currently redirects to a lapsed-domain marketplace listing rather than a live site, and adb.org itself blocks automated access — so specific named investee companies could not be independently confirmed for this profile via any accessible source this session. Its LinkedIn profile states current geographic activity concentrated in Southeast Asia (Thailand, Indonesia) and Japan, within its broader Asia-Pacific mandate.

💰 Check size: $100K–$500K

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.

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.

AppWorks is a Taipei, Taiwan-headquartered venture capital firm and startup accelerator founded in 2009 by Jamie Lin, who continues to lead the firm as Chairman & Partner. What began as the AppWorks Accelerator in 2010 has grown into a four-fund venture platform managing roughly US$350 million, with a self-reported network of 660+ active portfolio startups, thousands of founders, and tens of billions of dollars in cumulative portfolio valuation. AppWorks describes itself as one of the most active early-stage investors in "Greater Southeast Asia," a self-coined term reflecting its dual base spanning Taiwan and the wider Southeast Asian region. Its portfolio includes several of the region's best-known technology successes — Carousell, 91APP, Tiki, Dcard, ShopBack, and Web3 names like Animoca Brands and Dapper Labs among them. Its direct Philippine footprint is thin but real: its own investments page names one Philippine company, Clout Kitchen (an AI-powered creator-economy startup founded by three Filipino repeat founders), which AppWorks led at the pre-seed stage in 2024 — the firm itself notes its portfolio "underrepresents the Philippines relative to other regional markets like Indonesia and Vietnam."

Creador is a growth-stage private equity firm founded in 2011 by Brahmal Vasudevan, who continues to lead the firm as CEO, headquartered in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia (Menara BRDB, Bukit Bandar Raya). The firm has raised roughly US$3.1 billion in committed capital across six funds since inception (Creador I through VI, ranging from a US$130 million debut fund in 2011 to a US$930 million sixth fund closed in 2024) and reports having deployed more than US$2 billion into approximately 63 portfolio companies. It maintains a genuine regional office network — Kuala Lumpur (HQ), Singapore, Bangkok, Mumbai, Jakarta, Ho Chi Minh City, and a Philippine office in Bonifacio Global City, Taguig (Unit 2306, Philippine Stock Exchange Tower). Creador's confirmed Philippine investment is DALI Everyday Grocery, which the firm describes as "the Philippines' pioneer and leading hard discount retailer," invested in 2022. Its broader portfolio spans consumer and retail (MR.DIY across Malaysia, Indonesia, India, and the Philippines; Tealive), financial services (Cholamandalam, City Union Bank, BFI Finance), healthcare (Hermina hospital chain in Indonesia), and other regional consumer names (Somany Ceramics, CTOS Digital, Sapphire Foods, Long Chau pharmacy in Vietnam).

💰 Check size: Over $5M

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).

💰 Check size: Over $5M

Do Ventures is a Vietnam-headquartered venture capital firm describing itself as a leading early-stage investor across Vietnam and Southeast Asia, led by Managing Partners Vy Le and Archer Goh alongside an investment team that includes Venture Partner Thuc Vu. The firm's own materials reviewed for this profile did not disclose an exact founding year, headquarters city, or total fund size, though regional trade press confirms the firm is currently investing out of a Fund II, which received a US$10 million commitment from an Australian government impact-investment vehicle specifically earmarked to support early- and growth-stage SMEs. Do Ventures has also positioned itself as a policy and research voice in Vietnam's startup ecosystem, serving as lead research partner for Vietnam's "Innovation & Private Capital Report 2026." The firm's disclosed portfolio spans a wide range of Vietnamese and regional technology companies including Coolmate (consumer/e-commerce), Bizzi (fintech/spend management), Finhay (wealth-tech), Manabie and VUIHOC (edtech), MFast and Palexy (retail/fintech-adjacent tech), and Metub (media), reflecting broad early-stage activity across Vietnam's fast-growing digital economy rather than one narrow vertical.

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.

💰 Check size: Over $5M

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.

Integra Partners is an early-stage venture capital firm headquartered in Singapore, co-founded by General Partner Chris Kaptein and Managing Partner Jinesh Patel. The firm's own materials reviewed for this profile did not disclose an exact founding year or fund size, though it presents itself as investing under a "profit meets purpose" philosophy across Southeast Asia and South Asia. The firm's stated geographic reach explicitly includes Indonesia, Bangladesh, and the Philippines alongside other regional markets, and its portfolio spans earned wage access, chronic healthcare management, e-commerce enablement, HR/payroll SaaS, environmental/sustainability platforms, and SME credit and financial-services technology — reflecting a thesis built around solving structural access gaps for underserved consumers and small businesses rather than one narrow vertical.