Investors Directory

Aboitiz Equity Ventures, Inc. (AEV) is the publicly listed holding company of the Aboitiz Group, one of the Philippines' oldest and largest conglomerates. It was established in 1989 (originally as Cebu Pan Asian Holdings, renamed AEV in 1993) and has traded on the Philippine Stock Exchange under ticker AEV since 1994. AEV is headquartered in Makati City (Ayala Triangle Gardens Tower 2) and, per its 2024 disclosures, reported ₱302.82 billion in revenue, ₱18.13 billion in net income, and ₱893.70 billion in total assets. Its core businesses span power generation and distribution, banking and financial services, food and agribusiness, infrastructure, real estate, and — since a 2022 strategic repositioning as a self-described "techglomerate" — a growing data and AI arm, Aboitiz Data Innovation. IMPORTANT RELATIONSHIP NOTE, PER SITE OWNER'S REQUEST: Aboitiz Equity Ventures is the PARENT conglomerate sitting one level above UBX Philippines Corp, which is already a separate, distinct entry in this directory. The actual ownership chain runs AEV -> Union Bank of the Philippines (a major banking subsidiary of AEV) -> UBX Philippines Corp, UnionBank's dedicated fintech venture-building arm. AEV itself is not a dedicated venture capital fund — it is a diversified public holding company that, through subsidiaries like UnionBank/UBX and its own Aboitiz Data Innovation unit, participates in fintech and tech-venture activity rather than running a standalone VC fund of its own.

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.

AFG Partners is a venture capital firm focused on financial-services technology, headquartered in Singapore with a secondary presence in Hong Kong. Its team includes founding partner Ron Savino alongside Ivan Ong, Warren Ho, and Anurag Birla. A note on sourcing for this profile: the firm's historical afgpartners.com domain now redirects to a domain-marketplace listing rather than a live company site, so this profile is built from the firm's LinkedIn company page rather than its own website — flagged honestly rather than treated as fully primary-sourced. AFG Partners backs enterprise B2B fintech and "enabling technology" companies serving financial institutions, with named investments including Utila (digital-asset/stablecoin infrastructure), Adclear (marketing-compliance AI), Reflectiz (web security), and V7 (AI/data). No Philippine investment or Philippine-market activity was found in any source checked for this profile.

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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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."

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.

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.

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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.