# Top 50 SaaS Angel Investors in Philippines in June 2026

## Roland Navarro de Ros
- Type: Angel
- Relevant deals: 2
- Stages: Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A
- Focus: Audio, Coffee, Gaming

Roland Ros is the founder of Kumu, a digital entertainment company for fans of Filipino creativity. With over 15 million users, Kumu has reached the #1 Grossing Social App in the Philippines. It has also cracked the Top 10 in Canada, Hong Kong, Kuwait, UK and Norway, as well as Top 20 in several other markets like the United States, Saudi Arabia,Italy, and Australia.  He also currently serves as an investor and advisor for several start-ups; and is passionate about helping others.Prior to KumuMedia Technologies, Roland was Vice President of Spark Revenue, an Inc. 500 listed performance marketing & growth acquisition platform. Prior to Spark Revenue, Roland was VP Business Development for MediaTrust, an online performance advertising exchange and technology company. Prior to MediaTrust, Roland was Partner & VP Business Development at Tracking202, up until the company was acquired by Bloosky Interactive.  Roland started his career as a Business Development Associate with GE Money Bank, where he oversaw a $400 million dollar book of business.Roland serves as a Trustee for the Ros Foundation.  He has a BA in Asian American Studies from UC Santa Barbara, and studied as an Executive Scholar at the Kellogg School of Management, Northwestern University.

## Mert Mumtaz
- Type: Angel
- Location: Toronto, Ontario, Canada
- Relevant deals: 2
- Stages: Seed, Series A
- Focus: Blockchain, Financial Services, Cryptocurrency

Mert Mumtaz, Co-founder & CEO at Helius.

## Aaron Kemmer
- Type: Angel
- Location: Clearwater, Florida, United States
- Relevant deals: 2
- Stages: Seed, Pre-Seed
- Focus: Apps, Gaming, FinTech

A serial entrepreneur and advisor, Mr. Kemmer co-founded Made In Space when Singularity University offered the challenge of creating a project that would affect 1 billion people. Aaron’s belief is that off-world manufacturing will dramatically change the way we look at space exploration, commercialization and mission design today. He has workedwith several startup companies, including Heritage Cross, SUpost, Movis and YouTip. Aaron is an alumnus from the University of Florida and Singularity University and served as the Team Project Advisor for Singularity University and the Business Plan Advisor for New Space in 2012.Aaron’s publications include “3D Printing in Space: Enabling New Markets and Accelerating the Growth of Orbital Infrastructure,” which was featured at NASA’s Space Studies Institute 14th Space Manufacturing Conference in October 2010.

## Luis Sia
- Type: Angel
- Relevant deals: 2
- Stages: Pre-Seed
- Focus: Apps, SaaS, Beauty

Luis Sia - Co-Founder & Chief Commercial Officer @ PayMongo

## Paco Sandejas
- Type: Angel
- Relevant deals: 2
- Stages: Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A
- Focus: Information Technology, Training, Wireless

Paco Sandejas currently works as the Founder, Chairman, and CEO at Xepto Education, Stratpoint Technologies, and Narra Ventures. He is Chairman of the Philippine S&T Development Foundation and an Independent Director serving on the boards of Sunlife of Canada (Philippines), Sunlife Asset Management, Maya Bank, and Medical Doctors Inc (MakatiMed). He sits on the board also of Ostrea Mineral Laboratories, Diversified Holdings. He assisted UnionBank of the Philippines in its digital transformation as Independent Board Member until 2021. Paco completed his Ph.D. and MS In Electrical Engineering from Stanford University in 1995 and was the first summa cum ladue graduate in Applied Physics from the University of the Philippines. Paco loves to compete in tennis, football (soccer), and recently golf…ideally as teammate of his children and wife.

## Giulio Xiloyannis
- Type: Angel
- Location: Kuala Lumpur, Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Seed, Angel, Pre-Seed
- Focus: Gaming, Online Games, Apps

Giulio Xiloyannis is the Chief Commercial Officer of ZALORA, the largest online fashion retailer in SEA. Prior to ZALORA, he worked across a number of Rocket Internet Founded Venture in Italy, J.P Morgan and Rabobank. Giulio is an investor and Founding Investor for Omnilytics and an adviser for Musa, Taskomat and Edgar (Italy based ventures).Giulio as a pro-bono advisor for Florence based incubator Nana Bianca and Singapore based Antler as well as having collaborated with the Malaysian state sponsored incubator Magic.

## William Kim
- Type: Angel
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Series A
- Focus: Software, E-Commerce, Information Technology

William Kim is a Chief Executive Officer at Rapha. William previously worked at Samsung Mobile as an Executive Vice President. He attended the University of Colorado Boulder.

## Reid Hoffman
- Type: Angel
- Location: San Francisco, California, United States
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Series A, Series B, Seed
- Focus: Software, Social Media, Internet

Reid Hoffman is the Co-Founder of Manas AI and a member of the Sanmai Board of Directors. Reid previously worked at Coda as a Board Member. Reid Hoffman attended the University of Oxford, where he earned his M.St. in Philosophy.

## Brian Cu
- Type: Angel
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Pre-Seed, Seed
- Focus: B2B, Retail, Software

Brian Cu

## Moses Lo
- Type: Angel
- Location: San Francisco, California, United States
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Pre-Seed, Seed, Series B
- Focus: Financial Services, Information Technology, Software

Founder and CEO at Xendit

## Jitendra Gupta
- Type: Angel
- Location: Mumbai, Maharashtra, India
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Seed, Series A, Angel
- Focus: Financial Services, FinTech, Payments

Jitendra Gupta is the Founder of Jupiter.

## Ryan Selkis
- Type: Angel
- Location: New York, New York, United States
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed
- Focus: Blockchain, Cryptocurrency, FinTech

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.

## Jeff Kuan
- Type: Angel
- Location: San Francisco, California, United States
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Seed
- Focus: Financial Services, Gaming, FinTech

Jeff Kuan is a Head Of Business Development at Terraform Labs. He attended The Wharton School.

## Willy Arifin
- Type: Angel
- Location: Jakarta, Jakarta Raya, Indonesia
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Seed, Pre-Seed
- Focus: Financial Services, B2B, Apps

Will Arifin is a co-founder and chairman of KoinWorks. He has a dream to make financial inclusion soon to be happened in Indonesia. Through KoinWorks, he create products that makes everyone has the same chance to get financial access.

## Josh Felser
- Type: Angel
- Location: San Francisco, California, United States
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed
- Focus: Retail, Software, E-Commerce

Josh Felser is the Co-Founder of Climactic. He previously worked at State of California as a Task Force Member. Josh Felser attended Duke University.

## Jussi Salovaara
- Type: Angel
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Pre-Seed, Seed
- Focus: Artificial Intelligence, Software, FinTech

Jussi Salovaara is based out of Singapore and currently works as a Co-founder and Managing Partner Asia of Antler. Jussi previously worked at Nokia as a Vice President, Global Services Commercial Management. Jussi Salovaara attended the London School of Economics and Political Science.

## Jason Lau
- Type: Angel
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Seed
- Focus: Financial Services, Bitcoin, FinTech

Jason Lau  is the COO at Okcoin. Jason Lau attended NYU Stern School of Business.

## Blaine Vess
- Type: Angel
- Location: Los Angeles, California, United States
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A
- Focus: Software, FinTech, Financial Services

Blaine Vess is the Founder of Immeasurable. He previously worked at Solve as a Co-Founder and CEO. Blaine Vess attended San Jose State University.

## Julien Bouteloup
- Type: Angel
- Location: London, England, United Kingdom
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Seed, Angel, Pre-Seed
- Focus: Cryptocurrency, Blockchain, Finance

Julien Bouteloup is a Founder and CEO at Stake Capital Group. Julien previously worked at The British Blockchain Association as a Information Technology Advisor.Julien Bouteloup is a serial entrepreneur and inventor addicted to crazy innovative ideas. He has started his entrepreneurial career building websites and selling hardware technologies atage 14.  He holds a Master's degree in Electrical Engineering from Union Graduate College (USA) and a Master's degree in Computer Science and Electrical Engineering from GEM (France), specializing in Artificial Intelligence.He started working in the research sector in USA and then went back to Europe where he started freelancing full-time and consulting in the IT sector for Security & Defence. After 2 years, he quit his freelance position to become a full-time entrepreneur and left to Asia. He has helped and started multiple tech startups in different locations: NYC, Paris, London, Hong-Kong, Brussels and Singapore.In 2017, he founded the Flyingcarpet Network.

## Peter Hoang
- Type: Angel
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Seed, Pre-Seed
- Focus: Gaming, FinTech, Software

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.

## Lisa Gokongwei
- Type: Angel
- Location: Mandaluyong, Cavite, Philippines
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed
- Focus: FinTech, Payments, Internet

Lisa Gokongwei-Cheng is a President at Summit Media. Attended Columbia University - Graduate School of Journalism.

## Constantin Robertz
- Type: Angel
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Pre-Seed
- Focus: Apps, FinTech, Marketing

Constantin is managing director for Zalora in the Philippines. He has been in the Philippines since 2013 and previously worked with Rocket Internet in Global Venture Development, building its e-commerce ventures around the world in different functions, working with Zalando (Europe's #1 e-commerce company), Lamoda (Russia's leader infashion e-commerce), and Zalora (Asia's #1 online fashion destination). Before Rocket Internet, Constantin co-founded a personalised online shopping mall in Germany. He studied business administration in St.Gallen (Switzerland) and Singapore.

## Chris Hermida
- Type: Angel
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Seed, Series A
- Focus: Apps, Software, Blockchain

Chris Hermida

## Yaw Yeo
- Type: Angel
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Seed
- Focus: Gaming, Software, Cryptocurrency

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

## Amrish Rau
- Type: Angel
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Seed, Series A
- Focus: Financial Services, FinTech, Payments

Amrish Rau is the CEO of Pine Labs.

## Miguel Encarnacion
- Type: Angel
- Location: Berlin, Berlin, Germany
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed
- Focus: Software, Information Technology, Artificial Intelligence

Miguel Encarnacion

## Nina Teng
- Type: Angel
- Location: London, England, United Kingdom
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Seed
- Focus: Gaming, Software, Cryptocurrency

Nina Teng is a helping startups grow. Investor & doctoral researcher.

## Suresh Thiru
- Type: Angel
- Location: Kuala Lumpur, Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Pre-Seed
- Focus: SaaS, Software, Human Resources

Suresh Thiru, ex-CEO of JobStreet.

## Ryan Shea
- Type: Angel
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Seed, Series A
- Focus: Financial Services, Information Technology, Apps

Ryan Shea

## Paulo Campos
- Type: Angel
- Location: Manila, Manila, Philippines
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Pre-Seed, Seed
- Focus: Apps, Retail, FinTech

Paulo Campos is the Founding Managing General Partner at Kaya Partners.

## Subir Lohani
- Type: Angel
- Location: Jakarta, Jakarta Raya, Indonesia
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Seed
- Focus: Apps, FinTech

Subir Lohani is Managing Director of Carmudi Indonesia, a Rocket Internet backed firm and the fastest growing car classifies platform in emerging markets. Subir was formally an invesment banker working out oSingapore in the capital markets with a specialty of covering corporate and sovereign clients in South and South East Asia. Carmudi.com.ph isthe #1 vehicle marketplace in Indonesia and backed by Rocket Internet. They provide the highest quality cars, motorcycles and commercial vehicles online to make the search for your dream vehicle accessible with a few clicks or taps. Available on Android and iOS.

## Mamoru Taniya
- Type: Angel
- Location: Hong Kong, Hong Kong Island, Hong Kong
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Seed, Series A, Angel
- Focus: Apps, Content, FinTech

After graduating from the Faculty of Law at the University of Tokyo, he joined Solomon Brothers, where he became the youngest managing director in Asia, where he was in charge of Asian investment. After that, he created one of the largest independent Asuka assets. He also launched Japan's first independent online life insurance company,LifeNet Life Insurance, and inspired Japan's first International.

## Makoto Takano
- Type: Angel
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Seed, Series B, Angel
- Focus: Content, Sports, Human Resources

Makoto Takano is CEO of atomixmedia, inc., publisher and editor-in-chief of Forbes Japan and Rolling Stone Japan since June, 2014. Prior to joining Atomixmedia, Inc., he was Managing Director and President of PIMCO Japan Ltd. Before joining PIMCO in 2001, he was head of marketing at Goldman Sachs Asset Management. Makoto's prior experiencealso includes work at Daiwa Securities where he was head of the strategists team at Daiwa Institute of Research. He has published extensively on the capital markets. In 1992, he was awarded Securities Analysts Journal Prize by the Securities Analyst Association of Japan. He has also given lectures on asset management at Waseda University and Kyoto University. He holds master’s and undergraduate degrees in engineering from Waseda University. Makoto serves as Director of Nippon Finance Association and Rebuild Japan Initiative Foundation.

## Justin Mateen
- Type: Angel
- Location: Los Angeles, California, United States
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed
- Focus: Software, E-Commerce, Health Care

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.

## Markus Bruderer
- Type: Angel
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Pre-Seed, Seed
- Focus: FinTech, Information Technology, Apps

Markus Bruderer is the Partner at Antler. He attended University of St.Gallen.

## Michael Dargani
- Type: Angel
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Series A
- Focus: EdTech, Training, Education

Michael Dargani

## Julia Lipton
- Type: Angel
- Location: San Francisco Bay Area, California, United States
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A
- Focus: Software, Internet, Cryptocurrency

Julia Lipton is a Founder at Awesome People Ventures. She attended the University of Southern California - Marshall School of Business.

## Francis Plaza
- Type: Angel
- Location: Makati, Manila, Philippines
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Pre-Seed, Seed, Angel
- Focus: Software, Education, Gaming

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

## Ryon Nixon
- Type: Angel
- Location: Miami, Florida, United States
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Seed, Pre-Seed
- Focus: Cryptocurrency, Financial Services, FinTech

Ryon Nixon is a General Counsel at PrestigeXP. He attended UCLA.

## Richard Juan
- Type: Angel
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Pre-Seed
- Focus: Apps, FinTech

Richard Juan

## Tristan Yver
- Type: Angel
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Seed, Angel, Pre-Seed
- Focus: Web3, Blockchain, Software

Tristan Yver is the Co-founder of Backpack. He previously worked at FTX as a Head of Strategy - FTX.US. Tristan Yver attended Shidler College of Business.

## David Leechiu
- Type: Angel
- Location: Makati, Manila, Philippines
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Seed
- Focus: Real Estate, Property Management, Information Technology

David Leechiu

## Jayson Dolorito
- Type: Angel
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Seed
- Focus: Sales, Software, Marketing

Jayson Dolorito

## Johanne Lim
- Type: Angel
- Location: Manila, Manila, Philippines
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Pre-Seed
- Focus: Wholesale, Agriculture, Consumer Goods

Johanne Lim - CEO and Co-Founder @ MoveForward Inc.

## Stepan Simkin
- Type: Angel
- Location: Solana, Misamis Oriental, Philippines
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Pre-Seed
- Focus: Blockchain, Oil and Gas, Non-Fungible Token (NFT)

Stepan Simkin is the co-founder of Squads.

## Kennedy Ekezie-Joseph
- Type: Angel
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Seed
- Focus: Apps, FinTech

Kennedy Ekezie-Joseph is the Co-Founder and Chief Executive Officer of Kippa.

## Kristoffer Pulumbarit
- Type: Angel
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Pre-Seed
- Focus: Wholesale, Agriculture, Consumer Goods

Kristoffer Pulumbarit

## Janneke Niessen
- Type: Angel
- Location: Amsterdam, Noord-Holland, The Netherlands
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Seed, Pre-Seed
- Focus: Software, Artificial Intelligence, Fashion

Janneke Niessen is based out of Amsterdam, Noord-Holland and is the Co-Founder of CapitalT. Janneke previously worked at KNVB as a Member Innovation Board. Janneke Niessen attended the Nyenrode Business University. Janneke Niessen has received Most Influential Women in Tech and Harper's Bazaar Woman of the Year - Business award in theircareer.

## Lucas Bruder
- Type: Angel
- Location: Austin, Texas, United States
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Seed, Angel, Pre-Seed
- Focus: Apps, Web3, FinTech

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.

## Ray Alimurung
- Type: Angel
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Seed, Pre-Seed
- Focus: SaaS, Beauty, Gaming

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

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