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1982 Ventures is a Singapore-based early-stage venture capital firm co-founded by Managing Partners Scott Krivokopich and Herston Elton Powers, headquartered at 3 Shenton Way in Singapore's Shenton Way business district. The firm's own materials reviewed for this profile did not disclose an exact founding year, but its fund history is documented in regional trade press: its debut Fund I closed at US$20 million, exceeding its original US$15 million target, and the firm was reportedly targeting a US$50 million Fund II by early 2024. Beyond Singapore, the firm maintains regional operating partners covering Japan, Vietnam, and the United States, reflecting a deliberately hands-on, on-the-ground support model for its portfolio founders. 1982 Ventures describes itself as one of the most active fintech-focused seed investors in Southeast Asia, and its disclosed portfolio bears that out — spanning digital payments, embedded finance, buy-now-pay-later, payroll/earned-wage-access, and digital-asset exchange companies across the region. The firm has also shown willingness to follow strong founders into adjacent categories and geographies, including a disclosed participation in a US$400 million round for the US-based AI startup Higgsfield.

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.

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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Genting Ventures is the corporate venture capital arm of Genting Group, the diversified Malaysian conglomerate founded in 1965 with global operations spanning leisure and hospitality, casinos and integrated resorts, plantations, property development, biotechnology, cruise lines, and energy. Genting Ventures is headquartered in Singapore (Genting Centre, 3 Lim Teck Kim Road) and backs early-stage startups whose innovations align with its parent group's strategic interests. (Note: this session could not independently confirm Genting Ventures' exact founding year, disclosed fund size, or a verified list of specific portfolio companies through any live, fetchable source — the firm's own website, gentingventures.com, was consistently unreachable to this session's tools (connection resets on every attempt), and no dedicated Wikipedia article or accessible database profile exists. Stated honestly rather than guessed; should be confirmed directly before publishing, ideally via a direct visit to gentingventures.com.) The firm's publicly stated sector focus spans gaming and entertainment, leisure and hospitality, agriculture, web3, and energy — a mix that closely mirrors Genting Group's own diversified business lines, consistent with a corporate venture unit investing for strategic alignment rather than a purely financial-returns mandate.

MDI Ventures is the corporate venture capital arm of Telkom Group, Indonesia's largest telecommunications company, founded in 2016 and headquartered in Jakarta, Indonesia. The firm is led by CEO Nicko Widjaja, with Fajrin Rasyid (also CEO of Telkom) serving as Chairman. Rather than operating a single fund, MDI manages a family of vehicles including a US$500 million digitalization fund, the US$150 million Centauri Fund co-managed with KB Investment, and the US$40 million Arise Fund co-managed with Finch Capital, and reports having generated more than US$708 million in cumulative synergy value with Telkom's business by 2023. MDI describes itself as a "global multi-stage VC firm for local founders," investing from seed through growth stage across the digital economy with a deliberate emphasis on creating operational synergies between its portfolio companies and Telkom Group's own telecommunications and enterprise infrastructure. Its disclosed portfolio spans fintech, healthtech, edtech, and enterprise software companies primarily in Indonesia, with regional activity extending into Southeast Asia and select investments in Singapore and Australia.

Ribbit Capital is a Palo Alto-based venture capital firm founded in 2012 by Venezuelan entrepreneur Micky Malka, focused almost exclusively on financial technology. The firm reported roughly $12 billion in assets under management as of 2024, run by a lean team of around 30 people, and is known for concentrating large amounts of capital in a small number of high-conviction fintech bets rather than building a broad, diversified portfolio. Ribbit's best-known investment is Robinhood Markets, where it has deployed more than $500 million since first backing the trading app in 2014; other portfolio companies include Coinbase, the Brazilian digital bank Nubank, and Credit Karma. It also backed One, a fintech venture later folded into Walmart, valued at $2.5 billion in 2024. The firm's name comes from the Hebrew word ribit, meaning interest.

Sequoia Capital is one of the world's most prominent venture capital firms, founded in 1972 by Don Valentine in Menlo Park, California, where it remains headquartered today. As of late 2025 the firm is led by joint managing partners Alfred Lin and Pat Grady, and it reports roughly US$56.3 billion in assets under management as of 2024 — placing it among the largest and longest-running venture firms in the world. Note for this profile specifically: Sequoia's own India and Southeast Asia investment arm formally separated from the firm in June 2023 and now operates independently under the name Peak XV Partners (led by Shailendra Singh and GV Ravishankar); this entry describes Sequoia Capital itself, the original U.S.- and Europe-focused parent firm, not Peak XV. Sequoia's investment history spans more than five decades of category-defining technology bets, from early backing of Apple (1978), Atari (1975), and Cisco through to modern-era investments in Google, WhatsApp, Airbnb, Stripe, YouTube, and Snowflake. The firm's track record is not without high-profile losses — it wrote down its roughly US$214 million investment in the cryptocurrency exchange FTX to zero following FTX's 2022 collapse, a widely reported setback for the firm.

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