Top 10 Payments Angel Investors in Philippines in May 2025

Last updated: May 2025 A list of 10 angel investors that invest in Payments startups based in Philippines. We rank investors based on the number of investments they made in Payments companies from Philippines. We update this investor list every month.

Top 10 Payments Angel Investors in Philippines in May 2025

Investor	Payments Philippines investments
Francis Plaza	2
Yaw Yeo	1
Chinmay Chauhan	1
Justin Mateen	1
Rohit Mulani	1
Peter Hoang	1
Peter Thiel	1
Ray Alimurung	1
Abhinay Peddisetty	1
Lisa Gokongwei	1

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

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.

Yaw Yeo is the Extended Leadership Team at XA Network. Yaw Yeo attended Stanford University.

Investment focus

Gaming, Software, Cryptocurrency
Seed
Philippines

Portfolio highlights

Playdex — Playdex is an NFT gaming rental marketplace that seamlessly connects gamers, guilds, and NFT owners.

Chinmay Chauhan is a Co-Founder of BukuWarung. He was the Director of Product at Carousell, an Investor at hoolah, and the Product Lead at Grab.

Investment focus

Financial Services, Sales, Banking
Seed, Pre-Seed
India, Indonesia, Singapore

Portfolio highlights

Upmesh — Upmesh provides e-commerce functionality for live commerce merchants on social media.
Verihubs — Kembangkan infrastruktur digital perusahaan dengan sistem keamanan yang otomatis dan terintegrasi di Verihubs untuk kelancaran bisnis Anda.
Hyperface — We empower banks to maximize customer engagement and boost ROI through modern, digital-first card solutions.

Justin Mateen is the Cofounder and former CMO of Tinder, the world's largest dating platform. In 2021, and 2022 Business Insider ranked Mateen as the best early stage investor in the US, placing him at the number 1 spot on the top 100 list of US Seed Investors both years. In 2020, Forbes included Mateen on their list of the decade's top10 tech entrepreneurs. Fast Company has listed him as one of the most creative people in business.Founded in 2012, Tinder is the highest grossing app on Apple's app store since 2017 and was valued at over $40 Billion dollars in 2021.

Investment focus

E-Commerce, Software, Financial Services
Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed
United States, Mexico, United Kingdom

Portfolio highlights

Whop — Whop is your home on the internet. You can discover interesting communities, meet cool people, and even start a business.
Urbanic — Urbanic is a fashion brand that sells products online.
Hidden Studios — Hidden Studios develops and advertises Fortnite Creative games, with 100M+ plays monthly. The company collaborated with prominent brands and creators, including Skydance, Snoop Dogg, and CaseOh, to deliver engaging gaming experiences. Hidden Studios maintains an active presence on YouTube, sharing content related to their Fortnite Creativeendeavors.

I'm passionate about solving problems and driving impact at scale. Rohit Mulani is the Founder & CEO at Gotrade.

Investment focus

Financial Services, FinTech, Payments
Seed
Indonesia, Philippines

Portfolio highlights

Verihubs — Kembangkan infrastruktur digital perusahaan dengan sistem keamanan yang otomatis dan terintegrasi di Verihubs untuk kelancaran bisnis Anda.
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.

Peter Hoang is the Founder & CEO of Finblox - the easiest place to earn yield on the crypto assets and grow your wealth.He previously Co-Founded Gotrade - a commission-free stock trading platform enabling anyone in the world to invest in fractional US stocks. He is also a former Founder | Product Designer & App Developer at Space JumpStudios and Co-Founder of VietLinked Global Group.

Investment focus

Gaming, FinTech, Software
Seed, Pre-Seed
Vietnam, Philippines

Portfolio highlights

AnFin — AnFin is a venture-backed fintech company building the most innovative products in the wealth management and brokerage space. We strongly believe in the power of the stock market to transform developing economies. Therefore, we want to democratize access to stocks, bonds, and structured investment products. By leveraging scalable technology andstrategic partnerships, AnFin plans to build an ecosystem of products that connect stakeholders in a seamless way.
Playdex — Playdex is an NFT gaming rental marketplace that seamlessly connects gamers, guilds, and NFT owners.

Peter Thiel Is the Managing Partner of The Founders Fund. He previously worked at Stanford Law School as a Visitor. Peter Thiel attended Stanford University.

Investment focus

Software, Financial Services, FinTech
Series A, Seed, Series B
United States, Germany, Canada

Portfolio highlights

Rescale — Rescale is a high performance computing cloud simulation platform that helps engineers and scientists build, compute, analyze, and scale simulations with high performance computing and automations.
Mercor — Mercor is a better way to find opportunities. We're an AI-powered platform that sources, vets, and pays your next team members.
Quantum Systems — Our vision is to become the global leader in providing aerial data for decision making by the use of our drones.

Ray Alimurung is a CEO (Philippines) at Lazada Group.

Investment focus

Gaming, Software, Cryptocurrency
Seed
Philippines

Portfolio highlights

Playdex — Playdex is an NFT gaming rental marketplace that seamlessly connects gamers, guilds, and NFT owners.
LenderLink — LenderLink gives lenders access to real-time credit data. We simplify credit data exchange through a secure, consent-driven API network.

Abhinay Peddisetty is the Co-Founder of BukuWarung. He was an Angel Investor at Go Swift and the Head of Enterprise Business of APAC at Carousell before that.