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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.

500 Global (formerly 500 Startups) is a global venture capital firm headquartered in Palo Alto, California, with over $2.3 billion in assets under management and investments in 2,900+ companies across 80+ countries. The firm has been active in Southeast Asia since 2012 and has backed more than 340 companies in the region. It runs a dedicated Manila-based vehicle, 500 Philippines Fund (2019 vintage), and Martin Cu, a former Ninja Van Philippines country head, joined as Partner in 2023 to lead Philippine coverage for the firm's flagship Southeast Asia fund. 500 Global's managing partner Vishal Harnal has publicly named the Philippines an "inflection point" market within the firm's regional strategy.

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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.

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.

Accion Venture Lab is the early-stage investment arm of Accion, a global nonprofit organization founded in 1961 and headquartered in Cambridge, Massachusetts, that has worked for decades to expand financial inclusion for underserved populations worldwide. Venture Lab itself launched in April 2012 as Accion's strategic pivot toward backing fintech startups directly, rather than solely funding microfinance institutions through grants and technical assistance. As of the sources reviewed for this profile, the fund had deployed more than US$12 million across more than 30 startups operating in over 20 countries — figures that reflect the fund's earlier years and have likely grown since, though a more current AUM figure was not confirmed. Accion Venture Lab's disclosed portfolio directly includes First Circle, a Philippine invoice-financing fintech company, alongside international fintech investments such as NeoGrowth (India), Yoco (South Africa), and Konfio (Mexico) — demonstrating genuine, confirmed investment activity in the Philippine market as part of its broader global financial-inclusion mandate.

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.

Alpha JWC Ventures is a Southeast Asian venture capital firm founded in 2015 and headquartered in Jakarta, Indonesia, with a secondary office in Singapore. The firm was founded by Jefrey Joe, Chandra Tjan, and Willson Cuaca (the "JWC" in its name draws on the founders' names), and describes its focus as an "Indonesia+" strategy — anchored in Indonesia while investing selectively across the wider Southeast Asian region. Alpha JWC has raised a series of funds since inception, growing from its first fund into progressively larger vehicles as it built a reputation as one of Indonesia's most active early-to-growth-stage investors. The firm positions itself as a hands-on, value-add partner rather than a passive check-writer, running founder-support initiatives such as Alpha-X and an in-house academy alongside its core investing activity. Its portfolio spans several of Indonesia's best-known consumer and technology companies, reflecting a broad mandate across fintech, e-commerce, and consumer-facing digital platforms rather than a narrow sector thesis.

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.

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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