Top 20 Payments Angel Investors in Philippines (August 2026)
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| Investor | Relevant Deals | Geography | Stage | Focus | Round Size |
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Mert Mumtaz
Angel
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2 | United States, Philippines, United Kingdom | Seed, Series A | Blockchain, Cryptocurrency, Financial Services | $3M–$50M |
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Francis Plaza
Angel
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2 | Philippines, United States | Pre-Seed, Seed, Angel | Software, Education, Gaming | $125k–$228k |
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Peter Thiel
Angel
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1 | United States, Germany, Canada | Series A, Seed, Series B | Software, FinTech, Financial Services | $900k–$116M |
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Lisa Cheng
Angel
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1 | Philippines, Singapore, India | Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A | FinTech, Payments, Internet | $500k–$20M |
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Jeffrey Zirlin
Angel
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1 | United States, Brazil, Canada | Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed | Blockchain, Cryptocurrency, Gaming | $2.6M–$25M |
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Ryan Selkis
Angel
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1 | United States, Singapore, India | Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed | Cryptocurrency, Blockchain, FinTech | $850k–$30M |
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Ryon Nixon
Angel
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1 | United States, Philippines | Seed, Pre-Seed | Cryptocurrency, Blockchain, Financial Services | $1M–$2.5M |
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Lucas Bruder
Angel
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1 | United States, Philippines | Seed, Angel, Pre-Seed | Apps, Web3, FinTech | $5.5M–$12M |
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Tiger Bitanga
Angel
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1 | Singapore, Philippines | Seed | Blockchain, Cryptocurrency, Software | $250k–$275k |
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Nina Teng
Angel
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1 | Singapore | Seed | Gaming, Lending, Social Media | |
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Aaron Kemmer
Angel
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1 | Singapore, Philippines | Seed, Pre-Seed | Apps, Gaming, FinTech | |
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Yaw Yeo
Angel
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1 | Singapore | Seed | Gaming, Lending, Social Media | |
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Rohit Mulani
Angel
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1 | Indonesia, Philippines | Seed | FinTech, Financial Services, Payments | $1.6M–$2.8M |
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Julia Lipton
Angel
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1 | United States, Estonia, Singapore | Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A | Software, Financial Services, Information Technology | $1.5M–$30M |
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Chris Hermida
Angel
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1 | United States, Philippines | Seed, Series A | Blockchain, Cryptocurrency, Apps | $1.5M–$4M |
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Anatoly Yakovenko
Angel
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1 | United States, United Kingdom, Singapore | Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed | Blockchain, Cryptocurrency, Software | $500k–$73M |
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Mai Fujimoto
Angel
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1 | Japan, Canada, Vietnam | Seed, Series A | Blockchain, Marketplace, Information Technology | $1.2M–$8.5M |
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Bootstrapped Debt Financing
Angel
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1 | United States, Canada, United Kingdom | Pre-Seed, Seed | Software, Information Technology, Apps | $11k–$1.1M |
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Darren Lau
Angel
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1 | United States, Singapore, Spain | Seed, Series A | Blockchain, Cryptocurrency, FinTech | $835k–$32M |
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Ray Alimurung
Angel
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1 | Singapore, Philippines | Seed, Pre-Seed | SaaS, Beauty, Gaming | $1.3M–$2M |
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Mert Mumtaz, Co-founder & CEO at Helius.
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- Industry: Blockchain, Cryptocurrency, Financial Services
- Stage:Seed, Series A
- Geography: United States, Philippines, United Kingdom
Investor stats
- Total investments: 24
- Round size: Seed $3M–$20M; Series A $10M–$50M
- Lead/follow: 0% lead, 100% follow
Portfolio highlights
- V12 — V12 is your security agent for mission critical code.
- worm.wtf — worm.wtf is the prediction marketplace for the Solana ecosystem.
- Zcash Open Development Lab — Builders of the Zcash protocol and flagship Zcash wallet, Zodl @zodl_app. We envision a world without mass financial surveillance.
Francis Plaza currently works as an Advisor to the Boards for PayMongo. He attended Massachusetts Institute of Technology.
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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.
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.
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- Industry: Software, FinTech, Financial Services
- Stage:Series A, Seed, Series B
- Geography: United States, Germany, Canada
Investor stats
- Total investments: 233
- Round size: Seed $900k–$10M; Series A $3M–$32M; Series B $16M–$116M
- Lead/follow: 30% lead, 70% follow
Portfolio highlights
- Objection — Objection.ai is a new AI‑driven platform positioned as an “AI judge” for contested claims in journalism and public‑sphere reporting.
- Panthalassa — We're harnessing renewable energy in the open ocean and delivering it around the world. Engineered in Portland, Oregon.
- Reserve — Reserve is a universal currency company. Reserve provides people with hyperinflation protected savings accounts to protect and use their money globally. They offer rtokens, collateral baskets, and over collateralization.
Lisa Cheng is based out of Metro Manila, Philippines and is the Partner and Founder of Kaya Founders. Lisa Cheng attended Columbia University - Graduate School of Journalism.
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- Industry: FinTech, Payments, Internet
- Stage:Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A
- Geography: Philippines, Singapore, India
Investor stats
- Total investments: 15
- Round size: Seed $500k–$4.3M; Pre-Seed $500k–$1.3M; Series A $2M–$20M
- Lead/follow: 13% lead, 87% follow
Portfolio highlights
- Edamama — Discover your ultimate baby products haven! Discover everything from cozy cribs, diapers to playful toys. Shop now and start creating beautiful memories today!
- Otis AI — Otis is the first AI-powered virtual assistant that helps run and optimize your digital marketing cross-platform, at scale and at a budget that works for your business.
- VAMA — VAMA is a one-stop virtual platform that provides easy access to e-pujas, e-darshans, and astrology services, to devotees from across India and the world.
Jeffrey Zirlin is the Co-Founder and Growth Lead at Sky Mavis.
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- Industry: Blockchain, Cryptocurrency, Gaming
- Stage:Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed
- Geography: United States, Brazil, Canada
Investor stats
- Total investments: 15
- Round size: Seed $2.6M–$5.4M; Series A $10M–$25M
- Lead/follow: 7% lead, 93% follow
Portfolio highlights
- Play AI — The Orchestration Layer for Crypto x AI
- Metagood — Metagood is the operating layer for tokenized assets across their full lifecycle: compliance, transfer rules, entitlements, corporate actions, and audit.
- VOYA Games — Voya Games is a Berlin-based game development studio. The company focuses on creating a network of interconnected Web3 games centered around player ownership and tokenized economies. Their flagship title, Craft World, is a casual resource management game set in a post-apocalyptic world where players collaborate with friendly dinosaurs to rebuildcivilization. Craft World integrates blockchain features such as NFTs and a utility token called Dyno Coin, enabling players to own, trade, and participate in a decentralized game economy.
Ryan Selkis is the Founder and Chief Executive Officer of Messari. He was the Managing Director CoinDesk before that. After discovering bitcoin, Ryan became obsessed with the technology’s social and economic potential. That obsession, along with finance and startup experience, helps him lead DCG's investing efforts.
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- Industry: Cryptocurrency, Blockchain, FinTech
- Stage:Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed
- Geography: United States, Singapore, India
Investor stats
- Total investments: 41
- Round size: Seed $1.5M–$14M; Pre-Seed $850k–$4.5M; Series A $7.5M–$30M
- Lead/follow: 0% lead, 100% follow
Portfolio highlights
- 0xPPL — 0xPPL brings together people who have similar interests in cryptocurrencies, providing an ecosystem where users can track crypto assets and non-fungible tokens (NFTs) traded by those they follow.
- Agora — Make great governance your competitive advantage. Trusted by Optimism, ENS, Uniswap and more.
- StripChain — StripChain unifies all the blockchains
Ryon Nixon is a General Counsel at PrestigeXP. He attended UCLA.
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- Industry: Cryptocurrency, Blockchain, Financial Services
- Stage:Seed, Pre-Seed
- Geography: United States, Philippines
Investor stats
- Total investments: 6
- Round size: Seed $1M–$2.5M
- Lead/follow: 0% lead, 100% follow
Portfolio highlights
- Tria — Threely is onboarding billions onto Web3 with universal identities. Threely addresses are blockchain-agnostic identities that can be used across Web3 as a profile, chain-agnostic payment endpoints, logins, zkKYCs, and more. Threely is doing the crucial work of helping the top blockchain protocols, wallets, and dApps cast a wider net to onboard abroader part of the internet to Web3.
- Vanish Trade — Instant private trading with compliance on Solana. Backed by: @Colosseum @SolanaVentures @Pivotglobal_xyz
- Kemet Trading — Kemet provides the industry’s leading digital asset derivatives trading platform. Kemet’s turnkey, all-in-one technology platform supports the full trade lifecycle with high-performance portfolio, execution and risk management capabilities and a full suite of APIs, enabling institutions to execute across the entire digital asset derivatives marketfrom a single endpoint. Built on state-of-the-art technology, the Kemet platform provides maximum flexibility and can be enhanced quickly in response to client requests.Led by a team of technologists from the world’s most advanced trading institutions, including D.E. Shaw, Jump Trading, DRW and Cboe, Kemet’s platform meets the most demanding standards for latency, reliability and security. Kemet is backed by some of the biggest names in digital asset trading and VCs in addition to a host of some of the best angels in the industry.
Lucas Bruder is the Co-Founder and CEO of Jito Labs. He previously worked at Ouster as a Firmware Engineer. Lucas Bruder attended Carnegie Mellon University.
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- Industry: Apps, Web3, FinTech
- Stage:Seed, Angel, Pre-Seed
- Geography: United States, Philippines
Investor stats
- Total investments: 5
- Round size: Seed $5.5M–$12M
- Lead/follow: 0% lead, 100% follow
Portfolio highlights
- Arcium — The first parallelized confidential computing network.
- fomo — Fomo is a cutting-edge fintech startup revolutionizing the financial landscape through innovative technology and strategic partnerships.
- Inference — Inference infrastructure for AI-native teams
Co-founder & Managing Partner; CVO @ Niners Guild Co-founder & Managing Partner @ Knox Metaverse
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- Industry: Blockchain, Cryptocurrency, Software
- Stage:Seed
- Geography: Singapore, Philippines
Investor stats
- Total investments: 2
- Round size: Seed $250k–$275k
- Lead/follow: 100% lead, 0% follow
Portfolio highlights
- Niners Guild — The Niners Guild is creating a decentralized autonomous organization (DAO) that develops opportunities around play-to-earn games. Essentially, we’re a community of players who 1) regularly compete in blockchain-based gaming; 2) share in-game assets and strategies and; 3) award outstanding players who perform.
- Knox Metaverse — We bring wealth creation to the masses through digital asset innovations & blockchain technologies.
Nina Teng is a helping startups grow. Investor & doctoral researcher.
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- Industry: Gaming, Lending, Social Media
- Stage:Seed
- Geography: Singapore
Investor stats
- Total investments: 1
- Lead/follow: 0% lead, 100% follow
Portfolio highlights
- Playdex — Playdex is an NFT gaming rental marketplace that seamlessly connects gamers, guilds, and NFT owners.
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- Industry: Apps, Gaming, FinTech
- Stage:Seed, Pre-Seed
- Geography: Singapore, Philippines
Investor stats
- Total investments: 2
- Lead/follow: 0% lead, 100% follow
Portfolio highlights
- Playdex — Playdex is an NFT gaming rental marketplace that seamlessly connects gamers, guilds, and NFT owners.
- 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!
Yaw Yeo is the Extended Leadership Team at XA Network. Yaw Yeo attended Stanford University.
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- Industry: Gaming, Lending, Social Media
- Stage:Seed
- Geography: Singapore
Investor stats
- Total investments: 1
- Lead/follow: 0% lead, 100% follow
Portfolio highlights
- Playdex — Playdex is an NFT gaming rental marketplace that seamlessly connects gamers, guilds, and NFT owners.
I'm passionate about solving problems and driving impact at scale. Rohit Mulani is the Founder & CEO at Gotrade.
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- Industry: FinTech, Financial Services, Payments
- Stage:Seed
- Geography: Indonesia, Philippines
Investor stats
- Total investments: 3
- Round size: Seed $1.6M–$2.8M
- Lead/follow: 0% lead, 100% follow
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.
Julia Lipton is a Founder at Awesome People Ventures. She attended the University of Southern California - Marshall School of Business.
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- Industry: Software, Financial Services, Information Technology
- Stage:Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A
- Geography: United States, Estonia, Singapore
Investor stats
- Total investments: 27
- Round size: Seed $1.5M–$6.8M; Pre-Seed $2.1M–$5M; Series A $20M–$30M
- Lead/follow: 4% lead, 96% follow
Portfolio highlights
- Zurp — Portable charging for nightlife venues. Zero upfront cost. Revenue share on every rental.
- Arkive — Arkive is a web3 museum of real world items, curated by a community of passionate hobbyists, collectors, artists, designers, and creators.
- Lantern — Lantern helps you close deals faster and smarter. Consolidate customer, prospect, and intent data, streamline sales tools, and use AI-powered insights.
Chris Hermida
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- Industry: Blockchain, Cryptocurrency, Apps
- Stage:Seed, Series A
- Geography: United States, Philippines
Investor stats
- Total investments: 3
- Round size: Seed $1.5M–$4M
- Lead/follow: 0% lead, 100% follow
Portfolio highlights
- RECUR — RECUR designs & develops on-chain branded experiences for fans to buy, collect, and re-sell NFTs. RECUR is chain agnostic and is fundamentally changing the NFT market by creating and setting the standard for a decentralized recurring royalty, creating the widest distribution and reach for NFTs minted on their platform.It was founded in 2021and headquartered in Miami, Florida.
- Kintsu — Kintsu provides superior liquid staking solutions that boost your staking benefits and flexibility in DeFi ecosystems.
- Squads — Collaborative infrastructure for web3 native teams
Anatoly is the creator of Solana. He led development of operating systems at Qualcomm, distributed systems at Mesosphere, and compression at Dropbox. He holds 2 patents for high performance Operating Systems protocols, was a core kernel developer for BREW which powered every CDMA flip phone (100m+ devices), and led development of tech that madeProject Tango (VR/AR) possible on Qualcomm phones.
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- Industry: Blockchain, Cryptocurrency, Software
- Stage:Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed
- Geography: United States, United Kingdom, Singapore
Investor stats
- Total investments: 74
- Round size: Seed $2.5M–$10M; Pre-Seed $500k–$6M; Series A $9.5M–$73M
- Lead/follow: 1% lead, 99% follow
Portfolio highlights
- Ryder — 60s Setup, Secure Signing, EAL6+ Secure Element, TapSafe Recovery, IP68 Rating, Encrypted NFC.
- VeryAI — VeryAI develops a privacy-preserving identity verification platform using palm-scan biometrics on the Solana blockchain.
- worm.wtf — worm.wtf is the prediction marketplace for the Solana ecosystem.
Mai Fujimoto is known domestically and internationally as Miss Bitcoin. She has been promoting the spread of Bitcoin around the world since 2011.
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- Industry: Blockchain, Marketplace, Information Technology
- Stage:Seed, Series A
- Geography: Japan, Canada, Vietnam
Investor stats
- Total investments: 12
- Round size: Seed $1.2M–$8.5M; Series A $4M–$7.5M
- Lead/follow: 0% lead, 100% follow
Portfolio highlights
- RSS3 — RSS3 is an open protocol designed for content and social networks in the Web 3.0 era.
- GCR DAO — Global Coin Research is a Community-led DAO for Web3 Research & Investing. We source, vet & fund Pre-Seed to Series A opportunities. Join to Invest Together!
- Brand New Vision — Brand New Vision uses smart contracts to help creators sell digital fashion and other accessories.
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- Industry: Software, Information Technology, Apps
- Stage:Pre-Seed, Seed
- Geography: United States, Canada, United Kingdom
Investor stats
- Total investments: 34
- Round size: Seed $120k–$1.1M; Pre-Seed $11k–$1.1M
- Lead/follow: 9% lead, 91% follow
Portfolio highlights
- Kornem Energy — Kornem Energy provides energy intelligence and mobile-fuel delivery and diesel delivery on demand for the needs of today, tomorrow, and our future.We are eliminating the traditional fuel supply chain infrastructure using IOT & a compact terminal-to-car logistics aggregation, through service, automation and mobility.This enables us todeliver fuel directly to the customers who can request fuel delivery wherever they are, through our mobile app, while bridging the gap between feedstock aggregation, quality-assurance and end-user accessibility.No more expensive real estate, no more extensive supply chain. Just #FuelToYou
- SymbaSync — SymbaSync™ helps organizations maximize return on employee investment by providing Human Resources Software to source, qualify, and engage employees to populate project teams. SymbaSync’s tools increase employee satisfaction improving employee ownership, engagement, and retention. SymbaSync provides a company with a complete overview of up-to-dateemployee skills, interests, and workplace preferences.
- Tactii — DropCatch.com helps you secure expiring domain names.
Darren Lau is the Founder at The Daily Ape.
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- Industry: Blockchain, Cryptocurrency, FinTech
- Stage:Seed, Series A
- Geography: United States, Singapore, Spain
Investor stats
- Total investments: 19
- Round size: Seed $835k–$10M; Series A $6M–$32M
- Lead/follow: 0% lead, 100% follow
Portfolio highlights
- Cabal — Cabal is an innovative protocol that effectively generates revenue while operating on the robust initial layer 1 network.
- SpaceComputer — SpaceComputer uses satellites to create a secure blockchain system that resists cyberattacks and physical tampering.
- LI.FI — Advanced Bridge & DEX Aggregation - Drive multichain strategies with cross-chain data messaging and get users from everywhere.
Ray Alimurung is a CEO (Philippines) at Lazada Group.
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- Industry: SaaS, Beauty, Gaming
- Stage:Seed, Pre-Seed
- Geography: Singapore, Philippines
Investor stats
- Total investments: 4
- Round size: Seed $1.3M–$2M
- Lead/follow: 25% lead, 75% follow
Portfolio highlights
- Playdex — Playdex is an NFT gaming rental marketplace that seamlessly connects gamers, guilds, and NFT owners.
- BeautyBuddy — BeautyBuddy is a SaaS enabled, social-powered marketplace designed to streamline operations and drive discovery for beauty services in SEA.
- ProTech — ProTech provides device protection and repair services across Emerging Asia, combining protection plans with a digital platform that lets customers register devices, request repairs, and track service progress through a trusted partner network.
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