Top 10 Education Angel Investors in Philippines (June 2026)

Kevin Lin is the Co-Founder and CEO of Metatheory. He previously worked at Everyday Ventures as an Owner and Manager. Kevin Lin attended Yale University.

Investment focus

Industry: Gaming, Information Technology, Video Games
Stage:Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed
Geography: United States, India, United Kingdom

Investor stats

Total investments: 121
Round size: Seed $1.2M–$11M; Pre-Seed $228k–$4.7M; Series A $6M–$25M
Lead/follow: 2% lead, 98% follow

Portfolio highlights

Origin Lab — Origin Lab provides rights-cleared multimodal datasets, 3D environments, and custom AI training services for reasoning and AI models.
Catena Labs — Catena is a product studio where we transform complex computing advancements into accessible, practical tools for users and developers. Leveraging AI and web3 technology our aim is to turn innovative ideas into real-world applications that are easy to use.
Asterix — Asterix offers digital ownership and unlocks new possibilities.

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Francis Plaza currently works as an Advisor to the Boards for PayMongo. He attended Massachusetts Institute of Technology.

Investment focus

Industry: Software, Education, Gaming
Stage:Pre-Seed, Seed, Angel
Geography: Philippines, United States

Investor stats

Total investments: 6
Round size: Pre-Seed $125k–$228k
Lead/follow: 0% lead, 100% follow

Portfolio highlights

AcadArena — AcadArena is the home of campus gaming in the Philippines and Southeast Asia. Join tournaments, earn esports scholarships and meet new friends all for free!
Gretel.co — Gretel is a B2B SaaS connecting people with all the in-company information they need to do their jobs through their favourite applications, which can be found in the Gretel Store.
NextPay — Receive, manage, and spend your company's finances on a single platform. Save time and costs with a digital financial suite built to empower growing businesses.

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Holly Liu is the Co-Founder and Managing Partner of PKO Investments. She attended the University of California Berkeley and the University of California, Los Angeles.

Investment focus

Industry: Blockchain, Gaming, Software
Stage:Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A
Geography: United States, Canada, Taiwan

Investor stats

Total investments: 31
Round size: Seed $1.4M–$9M; Pre-Seed $120k–$5M; Series A $15M–$100M
Lead/follow: 3% lead, 97% follow

Portfolio highlights

Forge — Playtest, market and sell great Steam Games
Moku — Worshipping a mischievous Moki with big balls and a small brain. 8887 NFTs, 900+ traits, 3 epic games.
Blaze.tech — Blaze is the smarter no-code platform for teams to build internal tools. Create beautiful client portals, admin panels, inventory management systems, and automated workflows without needing to write any code. Trusted by enterprise companies for security and scale. Loved by startup entrepreneurs for being so easy to use and build applications.

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Neal Cross is a globally recognized corporate, social and start-up entrepreneur with a long track record across blue-chip technology, finance and data companies. He is currently co-founder and chairman of PictureWealth, one of the world’s fastest growing wealth fintech companies and serves on the advisory board of Razer Fintech. Prior to this,Cross was the Chief Innovation Officer at DBS Bank, where in his tenure he drove their transformation into a global innovation powerhouse culminating in achieving the world’s best Digital Bank 2016 and 2018 and worlds best bank 3 times across 2018 and 2019. He has personally been awarded the world’s most disruptive CIO/CTO globally from judges Sir Richard Branson and Apple co-founder Steve Wozniak and is a regular winner of best innovation lab and innovation leader awards. His early life as a game developer has left him with a passion for gaming and the realisation that software should be engaging and rewarding. To this end Cross is passionate about solving problems in an elegant manner and deploys world class programs to engage the entire work force in the business of innovation. Cross has advised hundreds of the major brands in Asia and is a trusted adviser to several leading CEO’s, government agencies and start-ups. In his spare time, he has built social enterprises to help save the endangered orangutans and coral reefs in Sumatra. and due to this was recently listed in The Meaningful Business 100 which focuses on the individual, cutting through the corporate messaging to uncover which leaders are driving truly impactful, purpose-led business to align with the United Nations Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs).

Investment focus

Industry: FinTech, Finance, Education
Stage:Seed
Geography: Philippines

Investor stats

Total investments: 1
Lead/follow: 0% lead, 100% follow

Portfolio highlights

Future Penny — Future Penny is a robo-advice platform that advises users how to plan their financial lives. It provides information across a broad range of areas including budgeting, superannuation, insurance, estate planning, and investments.Future Penny is expected to create a big opportunity for banks to consider how they can provide online advice to notonly their customers but also directly to their employees.

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Patrick Lee is the Co-Founder and CEO of Fanverse. He previously worked at PKO Investments as a Co-Founder and Managing Partner. [NAME] attended the University of California, Berkeley.

Investment focus

Industry: Blockchain, Media and Entertainment, Comics
Stage:Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A
Geography: United States, Taiwan, Philippines

Investor stats

Total investments: 15
Round size: Seed $1.1M–$9M; Pre-Seed $1.1M–$5M
Lead/follow: 0% lead, 100% follow

Portfolio highlights

Metagood — Tokenization as a Service for Modern Capital Markets
Nest Wallet — A Wallet Built for Traders
Jubilee Media — Media company for positive, purpose-driven millennials.

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Blaine Vess is the Founder of Immeasurable. He previously worked at Solve as a Co-Founder and CEO. Blaine Vess attended San Jose State University.

Investment focus

Industry: Software, FinTech, Financial Services
Stage:Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A
Geography: United States, India, United Kingdom

Investor stats

Total investments: 47
Round size: Seed $150k–$7.5M; Series A $4.8M–$9.7M
Lead/follow: 0% lead, 100% follow

Portfolio highlights

Albedo — Aerial quality imagery - from space.
SoloSuit — SoloSuit is a B2B SaaS FinTech and LegalTech provides you with all of the best resources for fighting your debt collection lawsuit and winning.
Yummy — Superapp of Venezuela & Quick Commerce for LATAM

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Luis Sia - Co-Founder & Chief Commercial Officer @ PayMongo

Investment focus

Industry: Apps, SaaS, Beauty
Stage:Pre-Seed
Geography: Philippines

Investor stats

Total investments: 4
Round size: Pre-Seed $228k–$500k
Lead/follow: 0% lead, 100% follow

Portfolio highlights

AcadArena — AcadArena is the home of campus gaming in the Philippines and Southeast Asia. Join tournaments, earn esports scholarships and meet new friends all for free!
Peddlr — Peddlr is a free POS mobile app for small businesses. Effortlessly track and manage your sales, expenses, inventory, and transactions. Use it anytime, anywhere, and even offline!
BeautyBuddy — BeautyBuddy is a SaaS enabled, social-powered marketplace designed to streamline operations and drive discovery for beauty services in SEA.

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Gabby Dizon is the Chairman and co-founder of Alto.io, a Singapore-based game platform that connects games to the blockchain. He helped pioneer the Philippine game industry as part of the team that released the first Filipino-made game in 2003. Gabby is also CEO of game developer Altitude Games and former President of the Game DevelopersAssociation of the Philippines. Gabby helps champion the game development industry in Southeast Asia and is an active member of the Philippine startup community.

Investment focus

Industry: Gaming, Blockchain, Cryptocurrency
Stage:Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed
Geography: United States, Singapore, Hong Kong

Investor stats

Total investments: 63
Round size: Seed $1.5M–$8M; Pre-Seed $1M–$5M; Series A $5M–$25M
Lead/follow: 5% lead, 95% follow

Portfolio highlights

Delabs Games — At Delabs Games, we want to create fun games that last a thousand years.
Edgen — A multi-chain, modular and open-source protocol providing the tools for developers to create the next generation of social apps.
SuperGaming — At SuperGaming, we are putting India on the global gaming map.

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Michael Dargani

Investment focus

Industry: EdTech, Training, Education
Stage:Series A
Geography: Philippines

Investor stats

Total investments: 1
Lead/follow: 0% lead, 100% follow

Portfolio highlights

Edukasyon.ph — Edukasyon is an Edtech platform empowering Filipino youth to make self-aware education decisions that lead to a fulfilling career and life.Edukasyon.ph is an education technology platform in the Philippines. It aims to empower more than 20 million Filipino Gen Z youth to make self-aware education decisions that lead to a fulfilling career andlife. Its online platform enables students to access senior high schools, colleges and universities, scholarships, online courses, internships, and other learning resources. In partnership with hundreds of educational institutions, corporations and foundations, Edukasyon.ph equips the youth with information to help them create and shape their own paths, as they discover more about themselves and the opportunities available to them. Edukasyon.ph, which also operates the website FindUniversity, www.finduniversity.ph, engages more than 10 million Filipino Gen Z youth each year.Edukasyon.ph is supported in part by impact investors, family offices and angel investors across Asia and Europe, including Mustard Seed, Villgro Philippines, French Partners, KSR Ventures, Gobi-Core Philippine Fund, EduLab Capital Partners, Obunsha Ventures, Alternate Ventures, Foxmont Capital Partners, Lorinet Foundation and First Asia Venture Capital. Edukasyon.ph has received several recognitions for its work, including the 2017 Financial Times / IFC Transformational Business Award for Achievement in Sustainable Development, with a focus on Education, Knowledge and Skills, as well as the 2017 ASEAN Youth Social Entrepreneurship Awards. Edukasyon.ph was also included in the 2016 World Innovation Summit for Education (WISE) Accelerator Program.Launched in 2015, Edukasyon.ph now has a team of more than 90 and is headquartered in Manila, with offices in Cebu and Davao. For more information, visit www.edukasyon.ph.

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