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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.

Mynavi Corporation is a large Japanese information-services conglomerate founded on August 15, 1973 as Mainichi Communications Inc., adopting the Mynavi name in 2011. It is headquartered in Chiyoda, Tokyo (Palaceside Building), the same building as Mainichi Newspapers, with which it was historically affiliated — though Mynavi's own shareholding tie to Mainichi has since dropped below 10%, and Mainichi now describes it only as a "friendly company" rather than a subsidiary. As of October 2024 Mynavi had roughly 7,621 employees. Its core businesses span employment/recruitment media (new-graduate hiring, career changes, temporary staffing), publishing, real estate information, bridal services, and travel content, operated across numerous Mynavi-branded portal sites, with overseas operations in the United States (New York), China (Beijing), and South Korea (Seoul). Beyond its core media/recruitment business, Mynavi has made direct startup investments, most notably a multi-round investment (starting January 2019, with further rounds through 2024) in Nosh, a Japanese frozen prepared-meal delivery service. No Philippines- or Southeast Asia-specific investment activity was confirmed from available sources for this profile.

A sourcing caveat up front: Pavilion Capital's own website (pavcap.com) is a fully client-side-rendered single-page application that returned no extractable server-side content across its homepage, about, and portfolio pages this session — every fact in this profile comes from its LinkedIn presence and a third-party investor database rather than the firm's own site directly. Pavilion Capital is confirmed via LinkedIn (handle: pavcap, Singapore-registered) to be an investment firm affiliated with Temasek Holdings, Singapore's state investment company, with a reported headcount in the 51-200 employee range. An exact founding year could not be independently confirmed this session. Third-party sourcing (CompassList) describes Pavilion Capital as investing in both U.S. and Asian companies and names M17 Entertainment (Asian social-media/livestreaming holding company), Warung Pintar (Indonesian smart-retail-kiosk network), and Fore Coffee (Indonesian coffee delivery chain) among its portfolio — though this could not be cross-verified against a second independent source this session. No Philippine investment or Philippine-market activity was found in any source checked.

Plug and Play Philippines is the local National Startup Accelerator Program run under a formal, two-year partnership between Plug and Play, the Silicon Valley-founded global innovation platform active since 2006 and connected to over 35,000 startups and 500-plus corporate partners worldwide, and the Philippine Department of Trade and Industry (DTI), publicly launched in Makati in April 2024. Rather than an independent Philippine-founded fund, it exists because the government sought out a global accelerator brand to run a formal local program, targeting roughly 40 startups a year across two six-month cohorts, focused on AI, cybersecurity, software development, animation, agritech, and food technology. DFNN Inc., a listed Philippine tech company, joined as a private-sector partner, testing incubating companies' products and contributing seed funding alongside DTI-referred sponsors. Participants receive mentorship and limited direct equity funding, plus access to Plug and Play's global network, reported by the firm at roughly billion in accessible capital — a genuinely different value proposition from a fund writing its own large checks, stated plainly here rather than oversold.