Top 25 Sports Startup Investors in Philippines in May 2025
A list of 25 angel investors and VC (Venture Capital) funds that invest in Sports startups based in Philippines. We rank investors based on the number of investments they made in Sports companies from Philippines. We update this investor list every month.Top 25 Sports Startup Investors in Philippines in May 2025
Investor | Sports Philippines investments |
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1kx | 2 |
Hustle Fund | 2 |
Endeavor Catalyst | 2 |
Kevin Lin | 2 |
Luis Sia | 1 |
DWeb3 Capital | 1 |
Francis Plaza | 1 |
TNB Aura | 1 |
Patrick Lee | 1 |
Speedinvest | 1 |
Core Capital | 1 |
Atlas Ventures | 1 |
Warner Music Group | 1 |
Hashed | 1 |
IVC | 1 |
Blockchain Capital | 1 |
Kingsway Capital | 1 |
Holly Liu | 1 |
Buko Ventures | 1 |
Michael Chow | 1 |
Romlas Health Group | 1 |
Karel Vuong | 1 |
Roland Navarro de Ros | 1 |
Gobi Partners | 1 |
Gabby Dizon | 1 |
1kx is an early-stage investment firm focused on ecosystem growth.
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Investment focus
- Blockchain, Cryptocurrency, Software
- Seed, Funding Round, Series A
- United States, Germany, United Kingdom
Portfolio highlights
- Kaia — Kaia is a public blockchain that utilizes Byzantine Fault Tolerance (BFT) for enhanced reliability and performance.
- Miden — Miden grants applications the power to scale with public and private transactions.
- Camp Network — Camp Network is a purpose-built Layer 1 blockchain to power AI agents.
Hustle Fund is a seed fund that invests in early-stage startups operating in software, business-to-business, fintech, and digital health sectors.
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Investment focus
- Software, FinTech, Financial Services
- Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A
- United States, Singapore, Canada
Portfolio highlights
- ThriveAI — Offload the busywork. Focus on the outcomes that matter.
- Agree.com — Agree.com is the best solution for creating and managing contracts, streamlining negotiations, enhancing compliance, optimizing workflows, and converting more customers — all within one intuitive platform. View edits, track signatures, and get alerted on all upcoming key milestones. Include free, one-click e-signatures with identity verification onevery agreement. Increase deal velocity and drive revenue impact with integrated payments.
- Rently — Rently is a digital platform for buying, selling, and managing properties.
Endeavor Catalyst is the co-investment fund set up to invest exclusively in led companies
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Investment focus
- Software, Information Technology, E-Commerce
- Series B, Series A, Series C
- United States, Brazil, Mexico
Portfolio highlights
- Nawy — The ultimate real estate broker in Egypt. Browse areas, compounds, and properties by price, location, and amenities to find the perfect place.
- Thndr — Investing in U.S. stocks made easy with thndr global
- Tarjama — Tarjama, a certified translation agency in Dubai and across the region, understands that in order to compete in today’s global market, businesses must be able to connect with their customers and stakeholders and communicate about their products and services in a way that fits into the regional and cultural context. What works in Europe or the USmay simply not work in the Middle East. As cultural and linguistic experts, we help you transcend geographic borders and communicate globally!
Kevin Lin is the Co-Founder and CEO of Metatheory. He previously worked at Everyday Ventures as an Owner and Manager. Kevin Lin attended Yale University.
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Investment focus
- Gaming, Information Technology, Video Games
- Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed
- United States, India, United Kingdom
Portfolio highlights
- Catena Labs — Catena is a product studio where we transform complex computing advancements into accessible, practical tools for users and developers. Leveraging AI and web3 technology our aim is to turn innovative ideas into real-world applications that are easy to use.
- Asterix — Asterix offers digital ownership and unlocks new possibilities.
- Cosmology — Cosmology is building a unified developer experience for interchain dApps
Luis Sia - Co-Founder & Chief Commercial Officer @ PayMongo
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Investment focus
- Apps, SaaS, Beauty
- Pre-Seed
- Philippines
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!
- 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!
- BeautyBuddy — BeautyBuddy is a SaaS enabled, social-powered marketplace designed to streamline operations and drive discovery for beauty services in SEA.
Digital fund focused on crypto & digital assets investments related to blockchain technology, Decentralized Finance DeFi, web 3, NFT, metaverse, Bitcoin, & more
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Investment focus
- Blockchain, Gaming, Cryptocurrency
- Seed, Funding Round, Initial Coin Offering
- Singapore, United States, Taiwan
Portfolio highlights
- Releap Protocol — Releap Protocol is a decentralized social graph on Sui and zkSync Era
- Rivalz Network — Rivalz is creating the World Abstraction Layer for AI and AI Agents.
- Martial Arts Awakening — Martial Arts Awakening is a blockchain game developer focused on the long-term development of blockchain, Web3.0, Metaverse, and NFT ecosystems.
Francis Plaza currently works as an Advisor to the Boards for PayMongo. He attended Massachusetts Institute of Technology.
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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.
TNB Aura is a thesis-led venture capital firm headquartered in Singapore, backing future-focused startups across Southeast Asia through data-driven investments.
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Investment focus
- Information Technology, Retail, E-Commerce
- Series A, Seed, Convertible Note
- Singapore, Indonesia, Vietnam
Portfolio highlights
- Techcoop — At TechCoop, we are proud to be the pioneer that provides multiple support to the farmers, suppliers, financial institutions.
- PEXX — Discover PEXX, the ultimate solution for quick and secure stablecoins to fiat conversions. Send USDT and USDC globally, enjoying competitive rates in Euros, USD, IDR and more.
- MediSun Energy — MediSun Energy is a technology-driven company dedicated to providing clean and affordable energy. The company's WEGEN Reverse Electrodialysis (RED) technology transforms saltwater into electricity, unlocking the ocean's immense potential for renewable energy. Dedicated to achieving a net-carbon-neutral future, the goal is to build a worldpowered entirely by clean, sustainable energy through the seamless integration of commercial viability and eco-friendly solutions.
Patrick Lee is the Co-Founder and CEO of Fanverse. He previously worked at PKO Investments as a Co-Founder and Managing Partner. [NAME] attended the University of California, Berkeley.
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Investment focus
- Blockchain, Media and Entertainment, Comics
- Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A
- United States, Taiwan, Philippines
Portfolio highlights
- Metagood — Metagood is a for-profit company that empowers communities to be catalysts for positive collective action.Founded by crypto veterans Danny Yang who created the largest crypto currency exchange in Taiwan, Amanda Terry who was an Twitter and NBC executive, and Bill Tai who was the first investor in Zoom, Canva, and 20 other publicly tradedcompanies, Metagood launched OnChainMonkey, the historic PFP collection all on chain in a single transaction on Sept 11, 2021. OnChainMonkey has been consistently ranked as one of the most profitable NFTs collections globally. Metagood was awarded Fast Company's 2022 20 Best World Changing Ideas for Impact Investing.
- Nest Wallet — A Wallet Built for Traders
- Jubilee Media — Media company for positive, purpose-driven millennials.
Speedinvest is one of Europe’s most active early-stage investors, with more than €1bn AUM, 40 investors, and offices in Berlin, London, Munich, Paris, Vienna and San Francisco. Your success is our priority, so we don’t just send some money and "check in" at board meetings. Our mission is to empower you with game-changing support throughevery stage of your journey. Our focused investment teams know your industry inside and out. Their Deep Tech, Fintech, Industrial Tech, Network Effects, Digital Health and Subscriptions experience, know-how and deep networks are yours from day one. You also have full access to our in-house Platform+ team of operational experts who can provide tailored growth marketing, people (HR), US business development, and networking support throughout every stage of your journey.
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Investment focus
- Software, FinTech, Financial Services
- Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed
- United Kingdom, Germany, Austria
Portfolio highlights
- trawa — The partner for renewable and affordable electricity for businesses. Get electricity directly from solar and windparks with corporate PPAs.
- remberg — The remberg software helps industrial companies become digital champions in customer & field service for their machines and equipment, moving from reactive and analog to proactive and digital, thereby eliminating paper chaos and preparing them for the age of the Internet of Things (IoT).
- Riverse — The impact monetization platform enabling European green-techs finance their growth by valorizing their impact
Founded in 2018, Core Capital is a venture capital firm in Manila, Philippines. Core Capital provides early-stage financing for technology companies with a focus on the Philippines. The firm invests through its first fund the Gobi-Core Philippines Fund, co-managed with Gobi Partners.
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Investment focus
- Gaming, Sports, Media and Entertainment
- Seed
- Philippines
Portfolio highlights
- Tier One Entertainment — Tier One Entertainment was founded in 2017 by e sports veteran Tryke Gutierrez, cosplay and gaming superstar Alodia Gosiengfiao and seasoned entrepreneur Brian Lim. Together, they sought to revolutionise Southeast Asia's e sports landscape, bringing their expertise in creating winning formulas to turn their talents into gaming superstars.
Atlas Ventures is an early-stage venture fund based in Singapore.
Atlas Ventures is affiliated to Atlas Asset Management Pte. Ltd., a diversified asset manager regulated by the Monetary Authority of Singapore as a holder of a Capital Markets Services licence.
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Investment focus
- Information Technology, E-Commerce, Software
- Series A, Seed, Series B
- Singapore, United States, Philippines
Portfolio highlights
- Priam Cyber AI — Measure and improve your security operations with Priam AI.We are combining decades of experience in incident response, data science and machine learning.
- PHINXT Robotics — PHINXT Robotics enables warehouses of any size to deploy autonomous robots as needed, with no expertise required.
- Mariana Oncology — Mariana Oncology is a biotechnology research industry.
Warner Music Group is a major music company with interests in recorded music, music publishing and artist services
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Investment focus
- Music, Digital Entertainment, Media and Entertainment
- Seed, Pre-Seed, Funding Round
- United States, United Kingdom, Canada
Portfolio highlights
- GMM Music — GMM Music unlocks the value of Thailand's music economy.
- Dancing Bear — Dancing Bear runs a music company that focuses in recorded music, music publishing, artist services, and vinyl records. The company's services include music creation, music label management, and vinyl record publication.
- SKILLBOXES (INDIA) PVT. LTD — SkillBox is an Art Community Platform that is constantly evolving – always conscious of the needs of artists and arts-related businesses.
Hashed is a global, early stage venture fund focused on backing founders who are pioneering the future of blockchain and cryptocurrency. Hashed is based in Seoul and San Francisco.
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Investment focus
- Blockchain, Cryptocurrency, Financial Services
- Seed, Series A, Funding Round
- United States, South Korea, Singapore
Portfolio highlights
- RLWRLD — RLWRLD specializes in "Physical AI" by creating robotics foundation models (RFMs) designed to enable robots to function autonomously in real-world environments.
- Fragmetric — Fragmetric is a native liquid restaking mechanism for Solana that improve the Solana ecosystem's security and economic potential.
- Kite AI — Kite AI is a purpose-built, EVM-compatible L1 designed to power the AI economy.
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Investment focus
- Blockchain, Gaming, Cryptocurrency
- Seed, Funding Round, Pre-Seed
- United States, Singapore, United Kingdom
Portfolio highlights
- GAIB — GAIB is the economic foundation for the future of artificial intelligence and computers. GAIB is a crypto-AI platform under development that tokenize GPUs, making AI computing—the processing power required to train and run AI models—more accessible.
- Tarta Labs — Tarta Labs is dedicated to building a next-generation anime IP ecosystem and aims to innovate within the anime gaming space by blending engaging narratives, high-quality visuals, and community-driven gameplay experiences.
- Neptune Protocol — Neptune Protocol is a decentralized lending platform. It enhances capital efficiency by enabling customers to obtain liquidity in a secure manner.
Partners to crypto builders since 2013.
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Investment focus
- Blockchain, Cryptocurrency, Financial Services
- Seed, Series A, Funding Round
- United States, United Kingdom, Singapore
Portfolio highlights
- Tally — Tally is a DAO operations platform. DAOs use Tally to create and pass proposals, enable delegation, and power voting.
- Camp Network — Camp Network is a purpose-built Layer 1 blockchain to power AI agents.
- Merit Systems — Merit aims to solve the "attribution problem" in software development. In the world of open source, which powers more than 97% of the apps that customers use daily, both IT titans and freelance programmers contribute to products that are freely available for anybody to access and enhance.
Kingsway Capital is a investment management firm.
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Investment focus
- Financial Services, FinTech, Cryptocurrency
- Seed, Series B, Series A
- United States, United Kingdom, United Arab Emirates
Portfolio highlights
- Mocaverse — Mocaverse is the Animoca Brands membership NFT collection of 8,888 unique beings: The Mocas. Join the Mocas in the realms to Learn, Play, Do Good, and Build together as we champion our Web3 values!
- Acki Nacki — Acki Nacki is an asynchronous blockchain technology that achieves probabilistic consensus via two communication phases. Acki Nacki is ready to support use cases such as payments, gaming economies, IoT networks, and AI applications.
- The Open Network Foundation — A decentralized and open internet designed to onboard 500M people on-chain, built by the community using technology developed by Telegram.
Holly Liu is the Co-Founder and Managing Partner of PKO Investments. She attended the University of California Berkeley and the University of California, Los Angeles.
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Investment focus
- Blockchain, Gaming, Software
- Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A
- United States, Canada, Taiwan
Portfolio highlights
- Moku — Moku is a web3 gaming platform that enables players connect to gaming guilds, NFT casting pages, game strategy communities, and more.
- Blaze.tech — Blaze is the smarter no-code platform for teams to build internal tools. Create beautiful client portals, admin panels, inventory management systems, and automated workflows without needing to write any code. Trusted by enterprise companies for security and scale. Loved by startup entrepreneurs for being so easy to use and build applications.
- Chaos Genius — Chaos Genius is a DataOps Observability platform for Snowflake & Databricks. We help enterprises understand, monitor, and optimize cloud data costs
Value-add angel funding for Philippines startup founders.
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Investment focus
- Software, Health Care, Gaming
- Pre-Seed, Seed
- Philippines
Portfolio highlights
- Playdex — Playdex is an NFT gaming rental marketplace that seamlessly connects gamers, guilds, and NFT owners.
- STAT — STAT offers quick, wide range of meds & convenient online medicine delivery. We are revolutionizing the way Filipinos purchase their medicine needs. We have delivered 1300+ orders with $69k revenue since we started in 2021 with a vision of dominating the $16.5B pharma market of PH.
- VAI Analytics — Built to Build. Vanguard AI is a powerful but flexible FREE analytic platform for trading stocks in the Philppine Stock Exchange.
Michael Chow is the Co-Founder of XRM Media.
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Investment focus
- Gaming, eSports, Education
- Seed, Pre-Seed
- 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!
- Canvas Media Studios — Innovative Storytelling For Every Canvas
Romlas Health Group is a company that works in the Health, Wellness, and Fitness industry.
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Investment focus
- Fitness, Wellness, Health Care
- Seed
- Philippines
Portfolio highlights
- Mediclick — Mediclick is an e-pharmacy that offers health and wellness products like supplements, vitamins, over the counter and prescription medicine.
Karel is the Co-Founder of Treasure, a community-driven gaming ecosystem building the next gaming and entertainment powerhouse. Since launching in September 2021, Treasure has become home to over 15+ games and hundreds of thousands of players to emerge as one the leading web3 gaming ecosystems. Some of Treasure's games include: The Beacon,Kaiju Cards, Mighty Action Heroes, Zeeverse, Kuroro Beasts, and Knights of the Ether.Karel was previously a Senior Associate and Chief of Staff at Sagard and Portage wearing many hats and working closely with Paul Desmarais III on special projects and across communications, investor relations, fundraising, operations, and more. Before Sagard, was the first employee at Diagram to launch a $30M venture builder and served as a founding member of initial two portfolio companies, Dialogue (IPO - TSX:CARE; later acquired by Sun Life) and Collage (acquired by People Corporation).Started career in product management and software engineering at various startups and tech companies in Toronto, Waterloo, and the San Francisco Bay Area.
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Investment focus
- Blockchain, Cryptocurrency, Gaming
- Seed, Series A
- Canada, Philippines, United States
Portfolio highlights
- Helika — Helika is a web3 product analytics platform that helps projects better understand their users, increase engagement, and drive growth.
- Satsuma — Speed up your app with our best-in-class blockchain indexing and query platform. Never worry about downtime or lag again.
- Delegate — Delegate focuses on increasing the security of on-chain identities and digital asset management such as NFTs and ERC20 tokens.
Gobi Partners: Leading Venture Capital in Asia. Accelerating Innovation, Fueling Success.
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Investment focus
- Financial Services, E-Commerce, Internet
- Series A, Seed, Series B
- China, Malaysia, Singapore
Portfolio highlights
- RushOwl — RushOwl is a dynamic ride-sharing company that offers timely and affordable shuttle rides.
- ChaZence — ChaZence is an environmental consulting and biotechnology company that manufactures, innovates, and designs naturally degradable materials for a sustainable lifestyle.
- SkyeChip — Your Preferred cutting edge IP & IC Design solutions for artificial intelligence and high-performance computing.
Gabby Dizon is the Chairman and co-founder of Alto.io, a Singapore-based game platform that connects games to the blockchain. He helped pioneer the Philippine game industry as part of the team that released the first Filipino-made game in 2003. Gabby is also CEO of game developer Altitude Games and former President of the Game DevelopersAssociation of the Philippines. Gabby helps champion the game development industry in Southeast Asia and is an active member of the Philippine startup community.
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Investment focus
- Gaming, Blockchain, Cryptocurrency
- Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A
- United States, Hong Kong, Australia
Portfolio highlights
- Moku — Moku is a web3 gaming platform that enables players connect to gaming guilds, NFT casting pages, game strategy communities, and more.
- Sapien — Sapien offers Data Labelling Services with RLHF to fine-tune your LLMs potential. Improve model performance with better data to improve outcomes. Consult us now!
- Clout Kitchen — Combining fandom and emerging technology, Clout Kitchen builds generational digital products with supercharged distribution. We help creators become icons that last.
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