Top 20 eSports Startup Investors in Philippines (July 2026)
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| Investor | Relevant Deals | Geography | Stage | Focus | Round Size |
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Hustle Fund
VC Fund
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3 | United States, Singapore, Canada | Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A | Software, FinTech, Financial Services | $100k–$25M |
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1kx
VC Fund
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2 | United States, Germany, Switzerland | Seed, Series A | Blockchain, Cryptocurrency, Software | $1.8M–$28M |
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Kevin Lin
Angel
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2 | United States, India, United Kingdom | Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed | Gaming, Information Technology, Video Games | $228k–$25M |
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Kingsway Capital
VC Fund
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2 | United States, United Kingdom, United Arab Emirates | Seed, Series A, Series B | Financial Services, FinTech, Blockchain | $1.8M–$120M |
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Endeavor Catalyst
VC Fund
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1 | United States, Brazil, Mexico | Series B, Series A, Series C | Software, Information Technology, E-Commerce | $5.5M–$200M |
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Hashed
VC Fund
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1 | United States, South Korea, Singapore | Seed, Series A | Blockchain, Cryptocurrency, Financial Services | $1M–$37M |
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DWeb3 Capital
VC Fund
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1 | Singapore, United States, Taiwan | Seed, Initial Coin Offering | Blockchain, Gaming, Cryptocurrency | $2M–$11M |
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Michael Chow
Angel
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1 | Philippines, United States | Seed, Pre-Seed | Gaming, eSports, Education | |
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IVC
VC Fund
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1 | United States, Singapore, Philippines | Seed, Pre-Seed | Blockchain, Gaming, Cryptocurrency | $480k–$9M |
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Luis Sia
Angel
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1 | Philippines | Pre-Seed | Apps, SaaS, Beauty | $228k–$500k |
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Francis Plaza
Angel
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1 | Philippines, United States | Pre-Seed, Seed, Angel | Software, Education, Gaming | $125k–$228k |
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Buko Ventures
VC Fund
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1 | Philippines, Denmark, Ethiopia | Pre-Seed, Seed | Software, E-Commerce, Health Care | $10k–$2.2M |
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Karel Vuong
Angel
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1 | Canada, Philippines, United States | Seed, Series A | Blockchain, Cryptocurrency, Gaming | $4M–$9M |
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Roland Navarro de Ros
Angel
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1 | Philippines, Singapore | Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A | Audio, Coffee, Gaming | $750k–$40M |
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Blockchain Capital
VC Fund
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1 | United States, United Kingdom, Singapore | Seed, Series A | Blockchain, Cryptocurrency, Financial Services | $1M–$40M |
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Holly Liu
Angel
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1 | United States, Canada, Taiwan | Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A | Blockchain, Gaming, Software | $120k–$100M |
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Patrick Lee
Angel
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1 | United States, Taiwan, Philippines | Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A | Blockchain, Media and Entertainment, Comics | $1.1M–$9M |
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Gabby Dizon
Angel
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1 | United States, Singapore, Hong Kong | Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A | Gaming, Blockchain, Cryptocurrency | $195k–$25M |
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Mirana
VC Fund
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1 | United States, Singapore, Hong Kong | Seed, Series A | Blockchain, Cryptocurrency, Financial Services | $2M–$43M |
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TNB Aura
VC Fund
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1 | Singapore, Vietnam, Indonesia | Seed, Series A, Convertible Note | Information Technology, Education, AgTech | $500k–$28M |
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Hustle Fund is a seed fund that invests in early-stage startups operating in software, business-to-business, fintech, and digital health sectors.
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- Industry: Software, FinTech, Financial Services
- Stage:Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A
- Geography: United States, Singapore, Canada
Investor stats
- Total investments: 420
- Round size: Seed $997k–$6.4M; Pre-Seed $100k–$2.5M; Series A $4M–$25M
- Lead/follow: 6% lead, 94% follow
Portfolio highlights
- Cloudoor — Cloudoor deploys and delivers your code to your customers without breaking things.
- BON Credit —
- EquityList — Equity management with online cap table management and employee stock option programs (ESOP) administration. Available free for Indian startups
1kx is an early-stage investment firm focused on ecosystem growth.
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- Industry: Blockchain, Cryptocurrency, Software
- Stage:Seed, Series A
- Geography: United States, Germany, Switzerland
Investor stats
- Total investments: 163
- Round size: Seed $1.8M–$11M; Series A $6M–$28M
- Lead/follow: 47% lead, 53% follow
Portfolio highlights
- EarnOS — EarnOS is the fully remote company that provides Global Ad & Payments Platform powered by Web3.
- Cryptio — We offer enterprise-grade accounting, reporting, and audit software for your digital assets.
- Kulipa — Kulipa provides the underlying infrastructure to settle global payments, manage stablecoin accounts, and issue cards - all through a unified, compliant stack. Grow revenue with debit cards. Boost acquisition with white-labelled accounts & cards. Scale faster with global payment products.
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.
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- 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.
Kingsway Capital is a investment management firm.
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- Industry: Financial Services, FinTech, Blockchain
- Stage:Seed, Series A, Series B
- Geography: United States, United Kingdom, United Arab Emirates
Investor stats
- Total investments: 100
- Round size: Seed $1.8M–$13M; Series A $7.5M–$120M; Series B $6M–$70M
- Lead/follow: 30% lead, 70% follow
Portfolio highlights
- Mesh —
- Mesh — Mesh enables safer, easier crypto transfers and payments from 300+ leading exchanges and wallets, all without leaving your platform
- Open Campus — The Open Campus is a community-driven protocol that leverages the power of blockchain and invites all to build the future of education by putting the power of learning back in the hands of educators, students, and the community.
Endeavor Catalyst is the co-investment fund set up to invest exclusively in led companies
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- Industry: Software, Information Technology, E-Commerce
- Stage:Series B, Series A, Series C
- Geography: United States, Brazil, Mexico
Investor stats
- Total investments: 391
- Round size: Series A $5.5M–$40M; Series B $10M–$100M; Series C $19M–$200M
- Lead/follow: 3% lead, 97% follow
- Last fund: Likely still investing — raised $292M in 2022
Portfolio highlights
- Dataroid — Enterprise-level digital analytics and customer engagement platform that helps enhance every customer interaction with data-driven insights.
- Pagaleve — pagaleve offers payment in installments at PIX, with no interest and no credit card required. They provide merchants with a new payment method in order to increase their sales in a simple, uncomplicated, and agile manner, but they also want to provide people with the opportunity to buy what they want without committing to the card'shigh-interest rates and credit.
- Shop Circle — Shop Circle is a tech-driven company that acquires and grows the best e-commerce apps. We empower thousands of brands to build experiences that customers will love.
Hashed is a global, early stage venture fund focused on backing founders who are pioneering the future of blockchain and cryptocurrency. Hashed is based in Seoul and San Francisco.
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- Industry: Blockchain, Cryptocurrency, Financial Services
- Stage:Seed, Series A
- Geography: United States, South Korea, Singapore
Investor stats
- Total investments: 287
- Round size: Seed $1M–$15M; Series A $2.6M–$37M
- Lead/follow: 34% lead, 66% follow
Portfolio highlights
- The Trive — The Trive is a car subscription service platform through which users can pay a monthly subscription fee to drive the car they most desire.
- DarcMatter — DarcMatter is a fintech platform that provides cloud based infrastructure for asset managers to better manage, communicate and access investors. By utilizing proprietary structuring and technology, DarcMatter is able to provide a frictionless process for both investors and private issuers while remaining fully compliant of all current financialregulations.
- Ceramic Network — Ceramic Network is a provider of protocols for decentralized and composable data applications. The network decentralizes application databases, making data universally composable and reusable across applications. It consists of three core parts: a highly-scalable, decentralized infrastructure for data availability and consensus, a marketplace ofcommunity-created data models, and a suite of standard APIs for storing, updating, and retrieving data from those models.
Digital fund focused on crypto & digital assets investments related to blockchain technology, Decentralized Finance DeFi, web 3, NFT, metaverse, Bitcoin, & more
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- Industry: Blockchain, Gaming, Cryptocurrency
- Stage:Seed, Initial Coin Offering
- Geography: Singapore, United States, Taiwan
Investor stats
- Total investments: 53
- Round size: Seed $2M–$11M; Initial Coin Offering $2.5M–$10M
- Lead/follow: 0% lead, 100% follow
Portfolio highlights
- Rivalz Network — Join the connectivity infrastructure between AI Agents, DeFAI and Markets.
- Mighty Bear Games — Mighty Bear is a Singapore-based studio building the next generation of massively multiplayer online mobile games. The team is a collective of games industry vetarans from the likes of King, Ubisoft, EA, Lucasarts, Disney, Gameloft, and Jagex. Mighty Bear make games that combine the depth of desktop gaming with the accessibility of mobile -"Mobile games without compromise".
- Martial Arts Awakening — Martial Arts Awakening is a blockchain game developer focused on the long-term development of blockchain, Web3.0, Metaverse, and NFT ecosystems.
Michael Chow is the Co-Founder of XRM Media.
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- Industry: Gaming, eSports, Education
- Stage:Seed, Pre-Seed
- Geography: Philippines, United States
Investor stats
- Total investments: 2
- 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!
- Canvas Media Studios — Innovative Storytelling For Every Canvas
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- Industry: Blockchain, Gaming, Cryptocurrency
- Stage:Seed, Pre-Seed
- Geography: United States, Singapore, Philippines
Investor stats
- Total investments: 201
- Round size: Seed $2M–$9M; Pre-Seed $480k–$4.5M
- Lead/follow: 16% lead, 84% follow
- Last fund: Likely still investing — raised $70M in 2022
Portfolio highlights
- Wizzwoods — Wizzwoods is an open-world farming strategy game.
- Metatheory — Metatheory Inc. is an interactive technology and entertainment company building Web3 games, interactive content, social experiences, and other community-driven adventures. Metatheory’s mission is to inspire imagination by connecting people worldwide through immersive worlds built on cross-generational IP.
- Spaceport Technologies — Accelerating the growth of the next digital economy
Luis Sia - Co-Founder & Chief Commercial Officer @ PayMongo
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- 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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- 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.
Value-add angel funding for Philippines startup founders.
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- Industry: Software, E-Commerce, Health Care
- Stage:Pre-Seed, Seed
- Geography: Philippines, Denmark, Ethiopia
Investor stats
- Total investments: 12
- Round size: Seed $2M–$2.2M; Pre-Seed $10k–$1.2M
- Lead/follow: 8% lead, 92% follow
Portfolio highlights
- GoRocky — GoRocky is a men’s online health clinic where one can process discreet and doctor-prescribed treatments delivered to their door.
- Jamii.one — A free digital tool to optimise the efficiency and finances of saving communities.
- Shoppable Business - Next Gen B2B Marketplace — Shoppable Business provides a B2B eCommerce marketplace and procurement-as-a-service platform for companies in the Philippines. The platform enables businesses to source office supplies, IT equipment, janitorial, construction, restaurant, hotel, retail and other business needs from vetted local suppliers. It offers procurement as a service withon-demand and dedicated models, request-for-quotation tools, pay-by-invoice terms, and a single supplier of record. Shoppable Business supports online and offline payments, integrated logistics, and provides official BIR-compliant invoices and receipts.
Karel is a Canadian entrepreneur and angel investor. He is currently the Co-Founder of Renaissance, a product studio working to bring greater choice and agency to education through bold experiments and disruptive products.Prior to Renaissance, Karel co-founded Treasure, a leading crypto project operating at the intersection of AI andentertainment. He was a Senior Associate and Chief of Staff at Sagard and Portage where he worked closely with Paul Desmarais III on special projects and across operations, investor relations, capital formation, marketing and communications, and more. Prior to Sagard, was the first employee at Diagram to launch a $30M venture builder and served as a founding member incubating portfolio companies, Dialogue (IPO - TSX:CARE; later acquired by Sun Life) and Collage (acquired by People Corporation).Karel is a computer science dropout who began his career in product management and software engineering at various startups and tech companies in Toronto, Waterloo, and the San Francisco Bay Area.
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- Industry: Blockchain, Cryptocurrency, Gaming
- Stage:Seed, Series A
- Geography: Canada, Philippines, United States
Investor stats
- Total investments: 4
- Round size: Seed $4M–$9M
- Lead/follow: 0% lead, 100% follow
Portfolio highlights
- Helika — Helika is a web3 product analytics platform that helps projects better understand their users, increase engagement, and drive growth.
- Satsuma — Speed up your app with our best-in-class blockchain indexing and query platform. Never worry about downtime or lag again.
- Delegate — Delegate focuses on increasing the security of on-chain identities and digital asset management such as NFTs and ERC20 tokens.
Partners to crypto builders since 2013.
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- Industry: Blockchain, Cryptocurrency, Financial Services
- Stage:Seed, Series A
- Geography: United States, United Kingdom, Singapore
Investor stats
- Total investments: 184
- Round size: Seed $1M–$15M; Series A $5M–$40M
- Lead/follow: 34% lead, 66% follow
- Last fund: Likely still investing — raised $580M in 2023
Portfolio highlights
- RedotPay — RedotPay is a leading crypto fintech bridging Web3 and traditional finance through innovative, cost-efficient blockchain solutions. Our intuitive crypto payment products enable millions of users globally to easily spend and send digital assets. We foster financial inclusion for the unbanked and serve crypto enthusiasts, advancing global adoption offast, accessible crypto payments.
- EigenLabs — Eigen Labs is an engineering and research organization that contributes to protocols like EigenLayer and EigenDA
- Fabric Cryptography — Fabric develops a custom cryptography hardware to accelerate cryptography algorithms. The chips, whose components exclusively serve cryptographic purposes, are based on Verifiable Processing Units (VPUs) which incorporate features of GPUs and ASICs to improve the speed and cost of advanced cryptographic workloads.
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.
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- 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.
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.
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- 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.
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.
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- Industry: Gaming, Blockchain, Cryptocurrency
- Stage:Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A
- Geography: United States, Singapore, Hong Kong
Investor stats
- Total investments: 64
- Round size: Seed $1.5M–$9M; Pre-Seed $195k–$5M; Series A $5M–$25M
- Lead/follow: 5% lead, 95% follow
Portfolio highlights
- GLHF — GLHF is a crypto-native game studio founded by industry veterans. The studio is known for its deflationary NFT collection, GLHFers, on the Ethereum mainnet, and for its Gigaverse ROM collection on Abstract.
- Delabs Games — At Delabs Games, we want to create fun games that last a thousand years.
- SuperGaming — At SuperGaming, we are putting India on the global gaming map.
Mirana Ventures is a leading global investment fund that provides long-term capital and strategic partnerships to visionary founders and fund managers in the Web3 space.
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- Industry: Blockchain, Cryptocurrency, Financial Services
- Stage:Seed, Series A
- Geography: United States, Singapore, Hong Kong
Investor stats
- Total investments: 125
- Round size: Seed $2M–$20M; Series A $7.5M–$43M
- Lead/follow: 12% lead, 88% follow
Portfolio highlights
- Obita — Obita provides enterprise-grade borderless payment infrastructure for fiat and compliant stablecoins, supporting global collections, payouts, and treasury operations.
- Inversion — Inversion is a technology-first investment company that acquires and transforms legacy businesses with blockchain technology.
- Heritage Distilling — Heritage Distilling Co. (HDC) is a craft distillery based in Gig Harbor, Washington. HDC is the most awarded craft distillery in North America by the American Distilling Institute 10 years in a row. We pour a little of our heart into every batch of spirits we make.
TNB Aura is a thesis-led venture capital firm headquartered in Singapore, backing future-focused startups across Southeast Asia through data-driven methodologies.
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- Industry: Information Technology, Education, AgTech
- Stage:Seed, Series A, Convertible Note
- Geography: Singapore, Vietnam, Indonesia
Investor stats
- Total investments: 41
- Round size: Seed $1.6M–$4.5M; Series A $5.1M–$28M; Convertible Note $500k–$6M
- Lead/follow: 63% lead, 37% follow
- Last fund: May invest from a new fund soon — raised $24M in 2018
Portfolio highlights
- Niber Technologies — Discover the world's most breathable and waterproof PFAS-free membrane by Nibertex. Eco-friendly innovation with top performance. Start your journey today!
- PowerCred — PowerCred is a one-stop API suite for clients to access alternate data from SMEs. Our integrated system provides real time connectivity which allows financial institutions to build better products to suit small business requirements. We have a network of data partners across categories which help us to build a robust and comprehensive intelligence system, allowing FIs to make more confident decisions, and empowering small businesses to focus on business growth.
- TradeGecko — Powerful Automated Inventory Management Software for Wholesale and Multichannel eCommerce with a B2B Ordering Platform, and Mobile plus Shopify, WooCommerce and Amazon Integrations.
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