Top 20 ESports Startup Investors in Philippines in September 2025
A list of 20 angel investors and VC (Venture Capital) funds that invest in Esports startups based in Philippines. We rank investors based on the number of investments they made in Esports companies from Philippines. We update this investor list every month.Top 20 ESports Startup Investors in Philippines in September 2025
Investor | eSports Philippines investments |
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1kx | 2 |
Hustle Fund | 2 |
Kevin Lin | 2 |
Michael Chow | 1 |
Kingsway Capital | 1 |
Gabby Dizon | 1 |
Patrick Lee | 1 |
IVC | 1 |
Luis Sia | 1 |
Hashed | 1 |
Buko Ventures | 1 |
Holly Liu | 1 |
Francis Plaza | 1 |
Karel Vuong | 1 |
TNB Aura | 1 |
DWeb3 Capital | 1 |
Roland Navarro de Ros | 1 |
Mirana | 1 |
Blockchain Capital | 1 |
Endeavor Catalyst | 1 |
1kx is an early-stage investment firm focused on ecosystem growth.
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Investment focus
- Blockchain, Cryptocurrency, Software
- Seed, Funding Round, Series A
- United States, Germany, United Kingdom
Portfolio highlights
- Stackup — Stackup is transforming how businesses manage their on-chain operations by offering a smart account platform designed to simplify and automate complex blockchain tasks. As the need for seamless, secure, and efficient crypto transactions grows, Stackup provides centralized control over decentralized assets, allowing businesses to take charge ofevery detail of their operations with ease. Our platform integrates advanced security and adaptive features to eliminate the chaos of traditional crypto wallets, empowering businesses to manage their crypto stack in real-time. Whether you’re orchestrating large-scale transactions or ensuring complete transparency, Stackup’s solution brings order and precision to blockchain management—turning crypto chaos into structured, seamless business flow.
- Orange Cap Games — Orange Cap Games is a game and experience design studio that creates digital and physical trading card games featuring Pudgy Penguins.
- Impossible Cloud Network — Impossible Cloud Network (ICN) is the foundational layer for the next-generation internet — a decentralized, composable cloud infrastructure serving AI, Web3, and enterprise applications. Unlike siloed DePIN projects or centralized incumbents, ICN delivers a high-performance, permissionless platform integrating storage, compute, and networking.With $31M in total funding, enterprise-grade architecture, 1,000+ B2B clients, and 28,000+ hypernodes sold, ICN is uniquely positioned to outcompete traditional cloud services and power the future of decentralized infrastructure. ICN is community-owned, performance-optimized, and regulation-aligned — bridging real-world adoption with blockchain innovation.
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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Investment focus
- Software, FinTech, Financial Services
- Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A
- United States, Singapore, Canada
Portfolio highlights
- Elfie — We fight high blood pressure and increase treatment adherence by rewarding patients for self-monitoring. World #1 app for hypertension. Download now.
- Fusepay — Modern Finance & Payments for Indian Ocean Islands
- Notary Everyday — Notary Everyday is the #1 solution for connecting title companies, lenders, and signing agents.
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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Investment focus
- Gaming, Information Technology, Video Games
- Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed
- United States, India, United Kingdom
Portfolio highlights
- 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.
- Cosmology — Cosmology is building a unified developer experience for interchain dApps
Michael Chow is the Co-Founder of XRM Media.
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Investment focus
- Gaming, eSports, Education
- Seed, Pre-Seed
- Philippines, United States
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
Kingsway Capital is a investment management firm.
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Investment focus
- Financial Services, FinTech, Cryptocurrency
- Seed, Series B, Series A
- United States, United Kingdom, United Arab Emirates
Portfolio highlights
- Roxom Global — Roxom is the first Bitcoin Stock, Commodities and Crypto Exchange in human history.
- Mesh — Mesh enables safer, easier crypto transfers and payments from 300+ leading exchanges and wallets, all without leaving your platform
- VERB Technology Company — VERB Technology Company is a software-as-a-Service, or SaaS, applications platform developer. Its platform is comprised of sales enablement business software products marketed on a subscription basis. The applications are available in both mobile and desktop versions. It includes verbCRM, Customer Relationship Management application, verbLEARN,Learning Management System application, and verbLIVE, its Live Broadcast Video Webinar application.
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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Investment focus
- Gaming, Blockchain, Cryptocurrency
- Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A
- United States, Hong Kong, Australia
Portfolio highlights
- Moku — Worshipping a mischievous Moki with big balls and a small brain. 8887 NFTs, 900+ traits, 3 epic games.
- Sapien — Sapien offers Data Labelling Services with RLHF to fine-tune your LLMs potential. Improve model performance with better data to improve outcomes. Consult us now!
- Clout Kitchen — Unlocking infinite scale for creators through digital twins.
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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Investment focus
- Blockchain, Media and Entertainment, Comics
- Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A
- United States, Taiwan, Philippines
Portfolio highlights
- Metagood — Metagood is a for-profit company that empowers communities to be catalysts for positive collective action.Founded by crypto veterans Danny Yang who created the largest crypto currency exchange in Taiwan, Amanda Terry who was an Twitter and NBC executive, and Bill Tai who was the first investor in Zoom, Canva, and 20 other publicly tradedcompanies, Metagood launched OnChainMonkey, the historic PFP collection all on chain in a single transaction on Sept 11, 2021. OnChainMonkey has been consistently ranked as one of the most profitable NFTs collections globally. Metagood was awarded Fast Company's 2022 20 Best World Changing Ideas for Impact Investing.
- Nest Wallet — A Wallet Built for Traders
- Jubilee Media — Media company for positive, purpose-driven millennials.
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Investment focus
- Blockchain, Gaming, Cryptocurrency
- Seed, Funding Round, Pre-Seed
- United States, Singapore, United Kingdom
Portfolio highlights
- Delabs Games — At Delabs Games, we want to create fun games that last a thousand years.
- Orange Cap Games — Orange Cap Games is a game and experience design studio that creates digital and physical trading card games featuring Pudgy Penguins.
- SuperGaming — At SuperGaming, we are putting India on the global gaming map.
Luis Sia - Co-Founder & Chief Commercial Officer @ PayMongo
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Investment focus
- Apps, SaaS, Beauty
- Pre-Seed
- Philippines
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.
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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Investment focus
- Blockchain, Cryptocurrency, Financial Services
- Seed, Series A, Funding Round
- United States, South Korea, Singapore
Portfolio highlights
- Subzero Labs — Subzero Labs is developing Rialo, a developer-first Layer 1 blockchain built for internet-scale decentralized applications.
- 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.
- Distinct Possibility Studios — Distinct Possibility Studios operates as a game development studio. Distinct Possibility Studios is an indie game studio led by MMO and FPS veterans.
Value-add angel funding for Philippines startup founders.
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Investment focus
- Software, Health Care, Gaming
- Pre-Seed, Seed
- Philippines
Portfolio highlights
- Playdex — Playdex is an NFT gaming rental marketplace that seamlessly connects gamers, guilds, and NFT owners.
- STAT — STAT offers quick, wide range of meds & convenient online medicine delivery. We are revolutionizing the way Filipinos purchase their medicine needs. We have delivered 1300+ orders with $69k revenue since we started in 2021 with a vision of dominating the $16.5B pharma market of PH.
- VAI Analytics — Algorithmic analytics platform for stock trading
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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Investment focus
- Blockchain, Gaming, Cryptocurrency
- Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A
- United States, Canada, Taiwan
Portfolio highlights
- Forge — Forge is fast, automatic, always-on game capture. Users can download Forge for free. It costs nothing and there are zero ads, just gaming entertainment.
- 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.
Francis Plaza currently works as an Advisor to the Boards for PayMongo. He attended Massachusetts Institute of Technology.
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Investment focus
- Education, Software, Gaming
- Pre-Seed, Seed, Angel
- Philippines, United States
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.
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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Investment focus
- Blockchain, Cryptocurrency, Gaming
- Seed, Series A
- Canada, Philippines, United States
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.
TNB Aura is a thesis-led venture capital firm headquartered in Singapore, backing future-focused startups across Southeast Asia through data-driven investments.
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Investment focus
- Information Technology, Retail, E-Commerce
- Series A, Seed, Convertible Note
- Singapore, Indonesia, Vietnam
Portfolio highlights
- Techcoop — At TechCoop, we are proud to be the pioneer that provides multiple support to the farmers, suppliers, financial institutions.
- PEXX — Discover PEXX, the ultimate solution for quick and secure stablecoins to fiat conversions. Send USDT and USDC globally, enjoying competitive rates in Euros, USD, IDR and more.
- MediSun Energy — MediSun Energy is a technology-driven company dedicated to providing clean and affordable energy. The company's WEGEN Reverse Electrodialysis (RED) technology transforms saltwater into electricity, unlocking the ocean's immense potential for renewable energy. Dedicated to achieving a net-carbon-neutral future, the goal is to build a worldpowered entirely by clean, sustainable energy through the seamless integration of commercial viability and eco-friendly solutions.
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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Investment focus
- Blockchain, Gaming, Cryptocurrency
- Seed, Funding Round, Initial Coin Offering
- Singapore, United States, Taiwan
Portfolio highlights
- Releap Protocol — Releap Protocol is a decentralized social graph on Sui
- Rivalz Network — Rivalz is creating the World Abstraction Layer for AI and AI Agents.
- 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.
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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Investment focus
- Blockchain, Cryptocurrency, Financial Services
- Seed, Funding Round, Series A
- United States, Singapore, Hong Kong
Portfolio highlights
- Obita — Obita is a B2B financial network that offers stablecoin-driven transactions for enterprises, merchants, and fintechs.
- 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.
Partners to crypto builders since 2013.
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Investment focus
- Blockchain, Cryptocurrency, Financial Services
- Seed, Series A, Funding Round
- United States, United Kingdom, Singapore
Portfolio highlights
- Levr Bet — LEVR provides users with a decentralized sports betting platform that combines leveraged DeFi with traditional sports betting.
- Tally — Tally is a DAO operations platform. DAOs use Tally to create and pass proposals, enable delegation, and power voting.
- Camp Network — Camp Network is a purpose-built Layer 1 blockchain to power AI agents.
Endeavor Catalyst is the co-investment fund set up to invest exclusively in led companies
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Investment focus
- Software, Information Technology, E-Commerce
- Series B, Series A, Series C
- United States, Brazil, Mexico
Portfolio highlights
- Gathern — Gathern is a booking platform of private villas, chalets, rest houses, camps, resorts, farms and other places suitable for gatherings.
- Woba — Woba is a software that provides an ecosystem with work solutions for office and remote teams.
- Tarjama — Translation services, certified translation agency, legal translation, medical translation, website translation, video translation, and subtitling.
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