Top 10 Hospitality Startup Investors in Philippines (October 2026)

Investible is an early-stage venture capital firm backing the visionaries advancing humanity through technology in Australia, New Zealand, Southeast Asia and globally.

Investment focus

Industry: Software, Information Technology, Artificial Intelligence
Stage:Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed
Geography: Australia, United States, Singapore

Investor stats

Total investments: 245
Round size: Seed $300k–$5.1M; Pre-Seed $392k–$2M; Series A $1.4M–$20M
Lead/follow: 38% lead, 62% follow
Last fund: Likely still investing — fund raised in 2023

Portfolio highlights

Apate.AI — Is the next generation of scam prevention and intelligence. We deploy advanced conversational AI bots combined with real-time insights to protect businesses, governments and communities globally.2
Inspace XR — Inspire and engage prospective tenants, buyers, and your team with interactive virtual replicas of your assets, with 360 virtual tours, analytics & more.
GeoSnapShot — Let's put your photos to work. Built for professionals, available to everyone. GeoSnapShot is loved by amateurs, professionals, teams and individuals.

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Gentree Fund is a VC Fund for Philippine startups that invests in early and growth stage, providing startup funding and key connections of Sy family principals.

Investment focus

Industry: Software, B2B, Retail
Stage:Seed, Series A, Series C
Geography: Philippines, United States, Indonesia

Investor stats

Total investments: 23
Round size: Seed $1M–$5M; Series A $2.1M–$40M; Series C $30M–$60M
Lead/follow: 26% lead, 74% follow

Portfolio highlights

Quadric — quadric.io is a Burlingame, CA-based processor technology company. The q16 Processor is the most comprehensive AI processor that handles any AI and high-performance edge workload.
Whale — Whale provides an omnichannel marketing platform that transforms marketing operations, digitalizes store operations and unifies offline & online brand experiences leveraging AI + IoT + Big Data to “Connect Brands with Customer”.Founded in 2017, Whale has since empowered 400+ global FMCG, F&B, Fashion and Automotive brands includingP&G, Unilever, Starbucks, UNIQLO, ARMANI, Watsons, Xiaomi, Midea, Lotus, POP MART etc. with over 150,000 stores across APAC, enabling brands to embrace the full potential of digital transformation.Equipped with AI capabilities, patented ReID technology and enterprise-grade security, Whale platforms comprising of Space Data Platform (SDP), Whale Marketing Cloud (WMC), Whale Open Platform (WOP) and Whale Analytics, serve as the end-to-end digitalization engine that enables brands to seamlessly engage with each customer.Whale is backed by Temasek Holding, NIO Capital, Source Code Capital, Linear Capital, Alpha Commune, BAI Capital and The Jiangmen, with 6 offices across Singapore, Hangzhou, Shanghai, Beijing and Shenzhen.
RQD Clearing — RQD Clearing delivers the technology, solutions, and business model brokers expect from a correspondent clearing. They are built entirely on cloud-native, real-time technology and offer an implementation that scales as clients.

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Investment focus

Industry: Software, Artificial Intelligence, SaaS
Stage:Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A
Geography: United States, Canada, Australia

Investor stats

Total investments: 47
Round size: Seed $750k–$3.5M; Pre-Seed $100k–$2M; Series A $1.5M–$7M
Lead/follow: 2% lead, 98% follow

Portfolio highlights

Stealth — Stealth is a software development company.
Acceler8 — Acceler8 is an AI workforce intelligence platform that helps enterprises make faster, better talent and succession decisions
Intellectible — Craft complex documents likes bids and proposals easily using AI

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RCGI

Investment focus

Industry: Software, Analytics, Hospitality
Stage:Seed
Geography: Philippines

Investor stats

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

Portfolio highlights

Mosaic Solutions — Find the top POS supplier in the Philippines for your business needs. Get reliable, efficient, and affordable point-of-sale solutions today!

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KMC Founders Fund is an investment fund.

Investment focus

Industry: Software, Analytics, Hospitality
Stage:Seed
Geography: Philippines

Investor stats

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

Portfolio highlights

Mosaic Solutions — Find the top POS supplier in the Philippines for your business needs. Get reliable, efficient, and affordable point-of-sale solutions today!

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Kaufer co-founded TripAdvisor in 2000 with the mission to help travellers around the world plan and have the perfect trip. Under Kaufer's leadership, TripAdvisor has grown into the world's largest travel site, with more than 50 million unique monthly visitors, 20 million members and over 60 million reviews and opinions.Kaufer has alsobuilt TripAdvisor, Inc., which includes 19 other travel brands, and has expanded the TripAdvisor brand into 30 countries. Kaufer and his co-founders sold TripAdvisor to InterActive Corporation in 2004, which later spun off its travel businesses to Expedia, Inc. TripAdvisor was owned by Expedia until December 2011, when it spun off to become its own publically traded company.Prior to co-founding TripAdvisor, Kaufer was president of CDS, Inc., an independent software vendor, and co-founder and vice president of engineering of CenterLine Software, where he led the development of several award-winning programming environments.Kaufer, winner of the 2005 Ernst & Young Entrepreneur of the Year Award, holds several software patents and has spoken at dozens of travel and high-tech conferences worldwide. He is on the board of directors at Glassdoor; CarGurus (www.cargurus.com); and the Caring For Carcinoid Foundation (www.caringforcarcinoid.org), a non-profit charity dedicated to finding a cure for Carcinoid and Neuroendocrine cancers.Kaufer has a degree in computer science from Harvard University.

Investment focus

Industry: Internet, B2B, Web3
Stage:Series A, Seed
Geography: United States, Spain, Philippines

Investor stats

Total investments: 10
Round size: Seed $2M–$3.4M; Series A $1.5M–$13M
Lead/follow: 0% lead, 100% follow

Portfolio highlights

Acelab — Discover and compare over 25,000 building products with Acelab. Find the best solutions for your construction projects. Explore our catalog today.
Ediphi — Ediphi provides hospitality training with the use of VR and AR in metaverse.
Cruisebound — Cruising made simple. Cruisebound makes it easy to book your cruise online. Compare cruises from major cruise lines and find the best fit for your vacation needs.

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JC Capital is a venture capital institution specialized in early and mid-term technology investment.

Investment focus

Industry: Health Care, Medical, Biotechnology
Stage:Series A, Series B, Seed
Geography: China, Vietnam, Philippines

Investor stats

Total investments: 41
Round size: Seed $704k–$5.9M; Series A $1.5M–$15M; Series B $2.9M–$14M
Lead/follow: 37% lead, 63% follow

Portfolio highlights

Ruishi Technology — Ruishi Technology develops Myopia prevention and control medical devices.
Giant Microbiology — Giant Microbiology is a company that produces synthetic biological raw materials in an environmentally friendly manner for the fields of beauty and daily chemicals, functional foods, and medical beauty.. The business focuses on creating "high-gross-profit innovative products" that satisfy consumer demand and offer useful, cutting-edge rawmaterial solutions, with bioactive sugars serving as its starting point. Hyaluronic acid, oligosaccharides, and functional oligosaccharides are among the goods it primarily develops and produces.
Guangna Development — Guangna Siwei is an optoelectronic device seller.

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We invest in early- to growth-stage start-ups who offer solutions to existing pain points and provide forward-looking innovations that will help shape the future we believe in.

Investment focus

Industry: Software, E-Commerce, FinTech
Stage:Seed, Series A, Series B
Geography: Philippines, Singapore, United States

Investor stats

Total investments: 70
Round size: Seed $350k–$5M; Series A $4.5M–$20M; Series B $3.2M–$24M
Lead/follow: 23% lead, 77% follow
Last fund: May invest from a new fund soon — last raise in 2015

Portfolio highlights

LotusFlare — LotusFlare provides a suite of digital products to help telecom operators grow revenue, reduce costs, and accelerate time to market.
Eezee — Singapore’s first & largest industrial marketplace that connects local suppliers to corporate clients, leveraging technology to help both parties make informed decisions.The company offers a secure platform for buyers and sellers to transact.Our aim is to improve the efficiency of business to business (B2B) transactions. We do this byensuring that the process of selecting and purchasing your supplies becomes quicker, more convenient and transparent. We support local suppliers in establishing their presence online, enabling them to be discovered by corporate organisations.
Featherless.ai — Freedom to reliably deploy any open model effortlessly. Unlimited tokens for 30K+ models. Open-source jev models on https://t.co/HVsStpj1i3

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Value-add angel funding for Philippines startup founders.

Investment focus

Industry: Software, E-Commerce, Internet
Stage:Pre-Seed, Seed
Geography: Philippines, Singapore, Kenya

Investor stats

Total investments: 29
Round size: Seed $600k–$2.2M; Pre-Seed $12k–$1.2M
Lead/follow: 3% lead, 97% 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 is a trusted, hassle-free B2B eCommerce marketplace for buying and selling 100% authentic branded products and services in the Philippines.

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