Top 5 Travel Startup Investors in Philippines

Last updated: Aug 2024 A list of 5 angel investors and VC funds that invest in Travel startups based in Philippines. We rank investors based on the number of investments they made in Travel companies from Philippines. We update this investor list every month.

Top 5 Travel Startup Investors in Philippines

Investor	Travel Philippines investments
Dirk van Quaquebeke	1
Teruhide Sato	1
Monk’s Hill Ventures	1
Spiral Ventures	1
Artesian VC	1

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Dirk van Quaquebeke is a founding Managing Partner at BEENEXT Capital Pte. Ltd. Prior Dirk was a founding partner at Alps Ventures an early stage investor and company builder with a focus on South East Asia. He has personally built several companies from inception to profitability and/or exit which included KochaAbo (leading onlinesupermarket – exit 2014), Clusterhaus (leading co-working group in Europe – profitable) or Duriana (leading c2c marketplace – exit 2016). He started his career in 2006 in London’s private equity and banking industry for 5 years.

Investment focus

Payments, FinTech, Software
Seed, Series A, Series B
India, Singapore, Philippines

Portfolio highlights

Koinex — Koinex is a multi-cryptocurrency exchange and trading platform that fuels Blockchain-powered internet. Its platform facilitates the real-time trading of multiple cryptocurrencies on a single platform, based on a peer-to-peer exchange model that enable potential buyers to place their bids and sellers to set 'asks' for the cryptocurrencythey want to trade-in.Koinex was established in 2017 and is headquartered in Mumbai, Maharashtra.
ZipMatch — Find your ideal property in the Philippines with ZipMatch. Whether you're looking for a condo or house in Makati or Taguig, you'll find your dream home here.
Netbank — Netbank provides various banking solutions like alternative lenders, payment solutions, neobanks, and wallets.

Teruhide Sato is President and Group CEO of netprice.com, Ltd., a global internet and e-commerce business incubator group (Tokyo Stock Exchange 3328). Lead the group to deliver the latest experience in online shopping across Japan, US, Europe and Asia. Strongly believe in the power of entrepreneurship.

Investment focus

E-Commerce, Internet, Marketplace
Seed, Series B, Series A
India, Japan, Singapore

Portfolio highlights

Zilingo — Zilingo was founded in 2015 by Ankiti Bose and Dhruv Kapoor with a vision to use technology to put fair and efficient business within everyone’s reach. Up until now, the fashion industry has favored a select few - if you had social, human and financial capital, you could get anything done. But we believe the future of fashion belongs to everyone.By using smart, technology-led solutions to bridge the gap between creators and producers, we’re re-imagining the fashion industry to make it accessible, connected and transparent for all. Find out more on business.zilingo.com.
InnerChef — InnerChef is an Indian food tech company that offers a mobile app for online food discovery and delivery. It allows users to order their favorite dishes which can be delivered within 20 minutes. The company offers ready-to-eat meals, gourmets do-it-yourself recipe kits (InnerChef DIY gourmet), detox cleanses, and healthy eats (InnerChef+) as wellas decadent desserts (Indulge by InnerChef). InnerChef has beverages ranging from cold coffees to thick shakes to fruit juices, all freshly prepared. The company also operates Indulge, a hyperlocal dessert marketplace where home bakers and neighborhood bakeries can offer their products to customers.
Pipa.Bella — Pipa.Bella currently offers custom-made and ready-made fashion jewelry at affordable prices to over 40,000 customers across India through an innovative online platform and aims to reach to 1.5 lakh customers over the next twelve months. With few branded players in the fashion jewelry segment, Pipa.Bella aims to solve a pain point that many womenface while shopping for jewelry - branded jewelry is either overpriced with high mark-ups, or unbranded jewelry is cluttered and lacks any proper curation or style guidance. Pipa.Bella launches approximately 100 new styles every week that are all priced well between INR 500 - 3000. The demand for fashion jewellery has grown significantly in the last few years due to high prices of gold and silver and is estimated to be a $6 billion market. The brand has hit operational profitability in FY 17-18 and is aiming to be cash flow positive in the next twelve months. Pipa.Bella targets the 22-35-year-old urban woman who is fashion-conscious, social media savvy and is quick to adapt to latest trends. Pipa.Bella derives its name from two European words that describe the company's range of products and customers. A typical "Pipa" woman is bold, edgy and always ready to experiment and a typical "Bella" woman is a classicist, graceful, more conservative. The brand celebrates the different styles that exemplify these two aesthetics through its product range, which consist of earrings, necklaces, bracelets and rings, sterling silver jewelry, charms, personalized jewelry, wedding jewelry Pipa.Bella is a recipient of the Google SMB Heroes 2017 Award, Top 25 Startups by Singapore's Javelin Startup-O Victory Fund, and Digital Women in E-Commerce 2017 Award by Shethepeople.tv. The brand has been worn on top Bollywood celebrities and has been featured in International fashion and business publications such as Vogue, Harpers, Femina, Grazia, Cosmopolitan, Elle, Economic Times, and Wall Street Journal.

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Investment focus

E-Commerce, Information Technology, Financial Services
Series A, Seed, Series B
Singapore, Indonesia, Vietnam

Portfolio highlights

Elsa — Improve your English speaking skills. Pronounce English like an American through real-world conversations.
UTS Network — UTS NETWORK is the next go-to marketplace for hotel nights and travel-related products backed up by state-of-the-art technology to serve travelers across the globe more exceptionally at reduced costs.
Radiant1 Pte Ltd — Discover Radiant1, a leading provider of innovative hotel management solutions, empowering hoteliers with cutting-edge technologies, including revenue management, channel management, AI-driven insights, and customer data platforms to optimize performance and deliver exceptional guest experiences. Transform your hotel's operations and drive growth with Radiant1.

Our former entity “IMJ Investment Partners” was established in 2012 by IMJ Corporation (“IMJ”), a major digital marketing company, as an independent venture capital subsidiary in Japan. After IMJ was acquired by Culture Convenience Club (“CCC”) in 2013, we continued our investment activities independently, and eventually relocated our office toSingapore to change our strategy and start a venture capital fund for the Southeast Asia market. In 2015, we established the Japan office and started a venture capital fund for the Japanese market.In tandem with the expansion of our business, we left the CCC Group, changed our name to “Spiral Ventures” in 2017, and made a fresh start as an independent venture capital firm.taken from https://spiral-ventures.com/en/group-info/

Investment focus

E-Commerce, Information Technology, Internet
Seed, Series A, Series B
Japan, India, Indonesia

Portfolio highlights

Ixyas — Ixyas offers internet service planning, operation, marketing support, and sales services.
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Inflow — Looking for reliable suppliers and efficient supply chain management for your fashion brand? Look no further than Inflow! Our online platform offers an end-to-end solution for all your production needs, from design to delivery. Simplify and optimize your production process with Inflow's high-quality sourcing and expert supply chain management. Try us out today!

Artesian Capital Management is an alternative investments management company, which was spun out of ANZ Banking Group's capital markets business in 2004, with backing from ANZ Private Equity. Artesian's founding partners, purchased ANZ's stake in 2005. The company has subsequently been fully owned by partners and staff. Since 2004,Artesian has managed specialised funds focused on credit arbitrage and relative-value strategies across global financial markets. In 2008, while continuing to manage credit relative value investment strategies from its New York, London and Singapore offices, Artesian began to make principal investments in seed/early-stage ventures from its offices in Sydney, Melbourne and Shanghai. In 2011, Artesian launched the first of its early stage venture capital funds and now manages AUD +255m. Artesian's VC strategy is to partner with best of breed accelerators, incubators, angel groups and university programs. In 2017, Artesian launched its China VC Fund with a USD 50m cornerstone investment industry super fund Hostplus. Artesian will soon launch a Southeast Asia VC Fund.