Top 20 Retail Startup Investors in Philippines in January 2026
A list of 20 angel investors and VC (Venture Capital) funds that invest in Retail startups based in Philippines. We rank investors based on the number of investments they made in Retail companies from Philippines. We update this investor list every month.Top 20 Retail Startup Investors in Philippines in January 2026
| Investor | Retail Philippines investments |
|---|---|
| Kickstart Ventures | 4 |
| Gentree Fund | 4 |
| Foxmont Capital Partners | 3 |
| Alpha JWC Ventures | 2 |
| InnoVen Capital | 2 |
| Wavemaker Partners | 1 |
| Robinsons Retail Holdings Inc. | 1 |
| Future Now Ventures | 1 |
| Cocoon Capital | 1 |
| Lisa Gokongwei | 1 |
| New Day Ventures | 1 |
| ADB Ventures | 1 |
| Kaya Founders | 1 |
| 917Ventures | 1 |
| Navegar | 1 |
| CVC Capital Partners | 1 |
| Big Boy Cheng | 1 |
| Anthony Oundjian | 1 |
| Ernest Cu | 1 |
| Brian Cu | 1 |
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.
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Investment focus
- E-Commerce, Software, Financial Services
- Seed, Series A, Funding Round
- Philippines, Singapore, United States
Portfolio highlights
- Lydia.ai — Lydia AI uses alternative data to make life and health insurance personalized, easier to buy and more inclusive
- Featherless.ai — Featherless.ai is a serverless AI hosting provider with GPU orchestration system.
- SRTX — Discover Sheertex tights and stockings made with one of the strongest materials in the world. Sheers manufactured sustainably in Canada. No rips, runs or snags - Guaranteed.
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.
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Investment focus
- B2B, Food and Beverage, Retail
- Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed
- Philippines, Indonesia, Singapore
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!
- DayaTani — Leveling Up Farming At Scale. From small plots to big estates, we design tech that levels up agricultural practitioners.
- Hive Health — Hive Health is a digital platform that provides access to easy-to-use, affordable, and quality HMO plans for SMEs in the Philippines.
Foxmont Capital Partners invest in Filipino-focused or Filipino-founded early stage technology startups that have proven that they can scale effectively and lead the Philippine digital evolution. Foxmont Capital Partners believe that if a Filipino startup can succeed in the Philippines, it can succeed anywhere.
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- E-Commerce, FinTech, Financial Services
- Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed
- Philippines, Singapore, United States
Portfolio highlights
- Nibertex — Discover the world's most breathable and waterproof PFAS-free membrane by Nibertex. Eco-friendly innovation with top performance. Start your journey today!
- Toki — Toki is a social commerce platform is made to facilitate the safe, profitable, and pleasurable purchase and sale of collectibles. It allows collectors to easily handle transactions The company's platform allows vendors to post their products for categories like footwear, Lego, NBA Cards, and Funko Pops, and customers may buy the products justlike they would on other online marketplaces.
- Colourette — Colourette Cosmetics is a proudly Filipina beauty brand specializing in multi-use makeup at friendly prices. Shop our products and experience #BeautyInAllWays!
Alpha JWC Ventures is an Indonesia-focused value-adding venture capital firm with expertise in FinTech and the Consumer tech sector. Alpha JWC Ventures is an independent and institutional firm that believes in investing in a disciplined manner combined with an active portfolio management approach. The firm was founded in 2015 and is based inJakarta Pusat, Jakarta Raya, Indonesia.
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Investment focus
- Information Technology, E-Commerce, Financial Services
- Seed, Series A, Series B
- Indonesia, Singapore, Vietnam
Portfolio highlights
- Bumame — Dapatkan layanan medical check up, vitamin booster, vaksinasi & home care di Bumame. Solusi kesehatan terpercaya dengan tim profesional Indonesia.
- Harrison.ai — Harrison.ai is a clinician-led healthcare AI company using deep learning to improve the odds of IVF success for thousands of patients. The company leverages deep learning to solve the biggest challenges in healthcare and seeks to improve patient outcomes. It empowers physicians and healthcare providers with customized AI-enabled tools thatintegrate into existing clinical workflows which ultimately lead to improved patient outcomes.Harrison.ai uses the deskside DGX Station for experimentation, research, and development. The company uniquely combines exceptional deep learning expertise with clinical experience to develop and deploy healthcare AI solutions. Harrison.ai’s IVY deep learning model analyzes the full five-day video feed from an embryo scope, helping it surpass the performance of AI tools that provide insights based on still images.Harrison.ai's mission is to continuously innovate and commercialize more efficient and more affordable healthcare products and services to healthcare providers and patients.Harrison.ai was founded in 2018 and is headquartered in Barongarook, Victoria, Australia.
- Cornerstone Robotics — Cornerstone Robotics operates to improve the accessibility of high-end medical services in China.
InnoVen Capital is Asia's leading venture lending firm with offices in Mumbai, Singapore and Beijing. Started in India in 2008, the platform was re-branded InnoVen Capital following a buyout of the business led by Temasek Holdings and UOB Group in 2015. InnoVen Capital currently has investor commitments of US$200 million.In India, InnoVenCapital is positioned as the first and largest venture debt provider to venture capital backed start-ups in India across stages of growth and sectors. The Company has a credit rating of ‘IND AA-’ for its term borrowing and ‘IND A1+’ for its commercial paper issuances.InnoVen provides debt financing to high growth and innovative tech startups, and has since supported and provided over 190 loans to more than 150 start-ups across India and Southeast Asia. The platform offers multiple debt capital solutions, including venture debt, acquisition finance, growth loans, and syndication.
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Investment focus
- E-Commerce, Financial Services, Internet
- Funding Round, Debt Financing, Series A
- India, China, Singapore
Portfolio highlights
- Atome — Atome makes Buy Now Pay Later easier and offers BNPL payment with 0% interest at various brands in Singapore
- Emversity — Beyond Odds focuses on upskilling the workforce and offers support to yhe healhcare industry.
- Rainforest Life — Rainforest buys e-commerce brands and grows them with a focus on long-term success. They believe that being part of Rainforest improves the brands’ longevity, financial returns, and sustainability outcomes.
Wavemaker Group is a cross-border venture capital firm founded in 2003 and one of the most active early-stage investors across multiple funds.
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Investment focus
- Software, E-Commerce, Information Technology
- Seed, Series A, Funding Round
- United States, Singapore, Philippines
Portfolio highlights
- Pi-xcels — Eco-friendly NFC digital receipts solution for actionable shopper data and enhanced customer journeys. No App, Just Tap. With one-tap convenience, Pi-xcels unlocks omni-channel marketing opportunities and boosts performance for retailers with our customer intelligence platform.
- Atomionics — Atomionics is building atomic sensors for navigation and resource exploration. Sensing technology is severely inadequate for a lot of applications navigation and positioning, pinpointing oil and gas reserves, tunnel detection etc. Atomionics builds atomic sensors harnessing quantum mechanical properties of the atoms. This enables measurement ofparameters like gravity, acceleration and rotation with 1000x higher precision and accuracy than the current state of the art, leading to a completely new way of global positioning, and resource exploration.
- Soul Parking — Soul Parking is a parking management service company, which has successfully developed motorcycle storage equipment as a solution for traffic and parking problems that are cluttered using 100% designs and raw materials. Soul Parking provides solutions by developing a modern, safe and comfortable vehicle parking system that takes into accountlimited land area.
Robinsons Retail Holdings operates as a retailing company in the Philippines. The company operates in six segments: Supermarkets, Department Stores, DIY Stores, Convenience Stores, Drug Stores, and Specialty Stores. It operates supermarkets under the Robinsons Supermarket brand that offer health and wellness products, as well as fresh foodproducts; and department stores under the Robinsons Department Store brand, which provide men’s, ladies', and children's wear, as well as shoes, bags, accessories, household items, and others. The company also operates do-it-yourself (DIY) stores under the Handyman Do it Best, True Value, and A.M. Builders’ Depot/Robinsons Builders brands that offer DIY and home improvement products; operates and franchises convenience stores under the Ministop name that provide fresh and ready-to-eat food for its customers; and operates drug stores under South Star Drug name that offer a range of prescription and over-the-counter pharmaceutical products with food, personal care, and other products.
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Investment focus
- E-Commerce, Retail, Internet
- Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A
- Philippines
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!
- GrowSari — Helping 1 million Sari Sari stores transform using technology
- Dart — Dart is an online supermarket and 15 min grocery delivery app.
Creating tomorrow's value in today's growth ventures and early stage startups.
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Investment focus
- Mobile, Retail, Travel
- Seed
- Philippines, Australia
Portfolio highlights
- Flyspaces — FlySpaces empowers businesses as a digital marketplace that provides short-term work and meeting space solutions to entrepreneurs, start-ups, SMEs and mobile professionals. Whether the need is for an hour, a day, a week or a few months - we have a network of hundreds of spaces to discover across key South East Asian cities.For venue owners,FlySpaces acts as a digital marketing platform that connects you to a vast user base, allowing you to optimize and monetize your space.We recognize that workspace is more than a mere location. It is a setting that inspires ideas, motivates action and promotes growth. With FlySpaces, find where your business will accomplish its next milestone.FlySpaces empowers businesses as a digital marketplace that provides short-term work and meeting space solutions to entrepreneurs, start-ups, SMEs and mobile professionals. Whether the need is for an hour, a day, a week or a few months - we have a network of hundreds of spaces to discover across key South East Asian cities.For venue owners, FlySpaces acts as a digital marketing platform that connects you to a vast user base, allowing you to optimize and monetize your space.We recognize that workspace is more than a mere location. It is a setting that inspires ideas, motivates action and promotes growth. With FlySpaces, find where your business will accomplish its next milestone.
- Four Eyes — They offer quality eyewear at the most affordable rates through their eCommerce store to the Filipino consumers.Prescription glasses, sunglasses, computer glasses can be tried at home using their Home Try-On feature, or through their website using the Virtual Try-On feature.They own the supply chain - from assembly to delivery of the endproduct.
- JESI Management Solutions — Workforce Safety Management Platform. Monitor the safety of mobile and lone workers, streamline your EHS program and safeguard your workforce.
Cocoon Capital is a Singapore-based venture capital firm focusing on early-stage Deeptech and Enterprise tech companies across Southeast Asia
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Investment focus
- Software, Internet, E-Commerce
- Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed
- Singapore, Vietnam, Philippines
Portfolio highlights
- Aprisium — Aprisium's on-site, instantaneous testing and monitoring solutions transform contamination detection. The days of waiting for test results are long gone. Aprisium state-of-the-art AI analytics and real-time online dashboards deliver precise and up-to-date environmental assessments to your location. Aprisium works with the commercial,industrial, municipal, and agricultural domains. Aprisium goal is to protect the environment and public health by using cutting-edge, adaptable contamination testing for solids, semi-solids, and water.
- Aleph — Alepha is an AI Co-pilot for Process Manufacturing. It specializes on AI-powered solutions for optimizing industrial processes.
- TransTRACK — Manage your fleet more efficiently with advanced fleet management solutions. Monitor vehicles in real-time, reduce operational costs, and increase productivity!
Lisa Gokongwei-Cheng is a President at Summit Media. Attended Columbia University - Graduate School of Journalism.
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Investment focus
- FinTech, Payments, Internet
- Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed
- Philippines, Singapore, India
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.
New Day Ventures is a venture capital firm seeks to invest in early stage software companies.
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Investment focus
- Retail, E-Commerce, Consumer Goods
- Series A
- Philippines
We invest to scale up climate solutions in emerging Asia. We back bold technology startups with solutions that transform lives and impact society. And we remain their long-term partners.
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- Artificial Intelligence, Machine Learning, Logistics
- Seed, Series A, Series C
- India, Singapore, United States
Portfolio highlights
- Alternō — Alternō was founded with a vision to create Asia's first low-cost thermal energy storage solution for renewable energy, to be deployed widely across the region by 2050. Alternō received early stage funding from Antler VC in Jan 2023 to kick off the research & development.
- Nibertex — Discover the world's most breathable and waterproof PFAS-free membrane by Nibertex. Eco-friendly innovation with top performance. Start your journey today!
- Blitz Electric Mobility — Blitz provides electric vehicles and fleet management software to food and beverage delivery, courier, and logistics companies.
Kaya Founders Investment operates as an investment firm.
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Investment focus
- FinTech, Financial Services, E-Commerce
- Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A
- Philippines, Singapore, Thailand
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- OneLot — OneLot helps used car dealers grow with fast inventory loans and free tools to streamline operations, boost sales, and scale their business.
- NoneAway — Find your happy place
- LenderLink — LenderLink gives lenders access to real-time credit data. We simplify credit data exchange through a secure, consent-driven API network.
917Ventures is the largest corporate venture builder that ideates, launches, accelerates, and scales new business ideas that uplift the lives of Filipinos.
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Investment focus
- Shopping, Retail, Software
- Pre-Seed
- Philippines
Portfolio highlights
- KodeGo — We are a Manila-based Coding Bootcamp offering online software engineering and full-stack web development program.
- Fanlife — Fanlife is your gateway to the stuff you love. Official, exclusive merch, collectibles, albums, fan-made products.
- Benta.TV — BentaTV will provide an online platform for merchants who are not techie, to make live-selling easier for them.
CVC has seven complementary strategies across private equity, secondaries and credit, through which we invest on behalf of pension funds and other leading institutions
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Investment focus
- Software, Financial Services, Retail
- Private Equity, Post-IPO Equity, Funding Round
- United States, United Kingdom, Indonesia
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- Odevo — We are on a mission to become the leading force within property management and residential services through the combined power of people and technology. Join us.
- Hempel — We help you protect your most valuable assets with our high-quality coatings
- DealStack — Dealstack is the operating system for private capital, built for private capital, by private capital professionals.
Filipino businessman Big Boy Cheng, known for his roles as a DJ, art influencer, and food vlogger, boasts an estimated net worth of $10 million. As the heir to Uratex, the largest foam producer in the Philippines, Cheng manages an exclusive collection of ultra-rare sneakers and streetwear valued at over $1 million.Cheng was born in Manila,Philippines, in 1981. He is the son of Robert and Natividad Cheng, the founders of Uratex.
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Investment focus
- Retail, Collectibles
- Pre-Seed
- Philippines
Portfolio highlights
- Toki — Toki is a social commerce platform is made to facilitate the safe, profitable, and pleasurable purchase and sale of collectibles. It allows collectors to easily handle transactions The company's platform allows vendors to post their products for categories like footwear, Lego, NBA Cards, and Funko Pops, and customers may buy the products justlike they would on other online marketplaces.
Anthony Oundjian Managing Director and Senior Partner at Boston Consulting Group (BCG).
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Investment focus
- Retail, Internet, Logistics
- Seed, Pre-Seed
- Singapore, Philippines
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- Etaily — Etaily provides e-commerce and retail solutions in the Philippines, enabling brands with end-to-end services, from store management to fulfillment.
- Toki — Toki is a social commerce platform is made to facilitate the safe, profitable, and pleasurable purchase and sale of collectibles. It allows collectors to easily handle transactions The company's platform allows vendors to post their products for categories like footwear, Lego, NBA Cards, and Funko Pops, and customers may buy the products justlike they would on other online marketplaces.
Ernest Cu - CEO @ Globe Telecom
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Investment focus
- Retail, Collectibles
- Pre-Seed
- Philippines
Portfolio highlights
- Toki — Toki is a social commerce platform is made to facilitate the safe, profitable, and pleasurable purchase and sale of collectibles. It allows collectors to easily handle transactions The company's platform allows vendors to post their products for categories like footwear, Lego, NBA Cards, and Funko Pops, and customers may buy the products justlike they would on other online marketplaces.
Brian Cu
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Investment focus
- B2B, Retail, Software
- Pre-Seed, Seed
- Philippines, Singapore
Portfolio highlights
- Toki — Toki is a social commerce platform is made to facilitate the safe, profitable, and pleasurable purchase and sale of collectibles. It allows collectors to easily handle transactions The company's platform allows vendors to post their products for categories like footwear, Lego, NBA Cards, and Funko Pops, and customers may buy the products justlike they would on other online marketplaces.
- HireQuotient — With the vision to disrupt the hiring process for business roles globally, HireQuotient’s virtual interviewers help companies test business skills at scale in an engaging and realistic manner, saving clients millions of dollars and man-hours. It has been used by more than 30,000 candidates in over 42 countries, and generated significant timesavings for hiring organisations while improving candidate quality in interviews.
- Lista — Manage your cash flow, maximize business potential and grow your business with Lista. Download now for FREE!
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