Investors in Philippines

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The Abraaj Group is a private equity, venture capital, and real estate investment firm specializing in early venture, seed, growth capital, emerging growth, mid venture, late venture, expansion capital, industry consolidation, mezzanine, subdebt, PIPES, buyouts, bridge, recapitalization, infrastructure, and buy and build in mature companies. It seeks to invest in small and medium sized enterprises in emerging markets. The firm typically invests in oil, gas and consumable fuels, metals and mining, agricultural machinery and equipment, agricultural services, auto parts and equipment, leisure facilities, pharmaceuticals, services outsourcing, water utilities, real estate, health care and clean energy, manufacturing, food products, FMCG, construction, healthcare services, industrials, telecommunications, resource and infrastructure services, education, information technologies, aviation, materials and logistics, agribusiness, energy, and food industries. It focuses on consumer goods and services, within which it also focuses on fast moving consumer goods manufacturing, retail, and food & beverage. Within financial services it also focuses on banking, non-bank financial institutions (such as mortgage or consumer finance specialists), insurance companies (life, general and reinsurance), and payments and fintech businesses. Within healthcare it focuses on hospitals & clinics and other type of service providers in the healthcare domain. Within education, it focuses on private K-12 schools and traditional graduate and post-graduate, campus-based universities. We are also investing in clean energy power generation, i.e., renewable power generation assets. We will also selectively invest in base-load gas-fired power generation assets and select midstream and downstream energy infrastructure assets including transmission and distribution assets that complete the value chain. It invests in companies based in Far East, the Middle East including Saudi Arabia, North Africa, Kenya, Ghana, Nigeria, and South Asia with a focus on Egypt, Lebanon, Jordan, Algeria, Pakistan, Turkey, the Palestinian territories and the six Gulf Arab nations that make up the Gulf Cooperation Council. The firm also seeks to invest globally with a focus on Sub Saharan Africa including Ivory Coast region; Latin America including Argentina, Brazil; Central Asia; and Southeast Asia including India and the Philippines. The firm seeks to make equity investments between $0.5 million and $100 million; typically investing $10 million to $100 million in private equity investments as well as in real estate. It prefers to invest between $100 million and $300 million in its portfolio companies. It prefers to invest in companies with revenue between $6 million to $35 million. The firm acquires controlling or significant interest and seeks board representation in its portfolio companies. It typically exits its investments within a period of three years to five years through structured exits to strategic and trade buyers or onto public markets in the region. The firm seeks majority and minority positions in public enterprises ranging between 10% and 49%. The Abraaj Group was founded in 2002 and is headquartered in Dubai, United Arab Emirates with additional offices across Asia, Africa, and Europe.

AHG Lab is a venture capital firm specializing in pre-idea to seed stage, startups, early-stage, middle stage, later stage, incubation, growth capital and pre-seed. The firm is sector-agnostic. The firm seeks to invest in AI-enabled, accelerator, cleantech, e-commerce, edtech, fintech, foodtech, fund, healthtech, HR tech, marketing agency, ops and services, proptech+, social network, techdev and travel tech. The firm seeks to invest in the Philippines, Middle East, Southeast Asia and beyond. AHG Lab is headquartered in Makati City, Philippines with additional offices in Singapore, Singapore and Abu Dhabi, United Arab Emirates.

Navegar is a Philippines-focused, Manila-based private equity firm that provides growth capital to established companies. Navegar invests in both primary and secondary share offerings, and actively seeks to maximize the value of its portfolio companies by providing financial, operational and strategic guidance. Established in 2012, Navegar manages Navegar Fund I and Navegar Fund II, with total assets under management of over USD 250 million.

Comanche is an information technology solutions company based in Thailand. We have more than 20 years’ experience in the hotel IT industry, creating management systems that provide seamless integrated solutions for hotels and serviced apartments. Our name and reputation have been established since 1996. We now have more than 600 customers in 17 countries, with hotels ranging in size from 19 rooms up to 1,300 rooms. More than 30 percent of our current customers are hotels that have converted from other software systems. Along with our home base of Thailand, we have customers Myanmar, Vietnam, Laos, Australia, Cambodia, Hong Kong, Macau, China, Japan, Indonesia, Philippines, Maldives, Malaysia, Taiwan, India, Sri Lanka, and Singapore.

Narra Venture Capital is a venture management and advisory group that has invested in private high-technology companies with potential for accelerated growth. Established in January 2002, it has focused its investments on companies with defensible barriers to competition, which are normally based on cutting edge technology or their efficient deployment.In Silicon Valley and similar technology centers, Narra has invested in companies developing semiconductors and semiconductor-related products, converged communication systems, computing platforms, and software & related services. More recently, it has also made smaller investments on promising Internet startups. The firm works with Silicon Valley based partners like Tallwood Venture Capital.In addition, Narra’s role is to help bring Asia to these investments through introductions to markets or partners. In the Philippines and around the Asian continent, Narra seeks companies that take advantage of the synergy with advanced technology companies. These companies are in software services, electronic manufacturing services, design services, and information systems that are more customized for developing regions.

VinVentures is a venture capital firm specializing in early stage, early venture and seed/startup companies. It specializes in growth capital investments. It prefers to invest in AI, semiconductors, cloud computing, and other high-tech products while remaining open to startups in other fields that demonstrate long-term vision, a mission for sustainable development, and possess pioneering technologies. The firm targets startups within the dynamic markets of Vietnam and Southeast Asia; Vietnam, Singapore, Indonesia, and the Philippines. VinVentures was founded in 2024 and is based in Hanoi, Vietnam.

ADB Ventures is a venture capital arm of Asian Development Bank specializing in startups, seed and early-stage investments. It seeks to invest in innovative technology with a focus on clean energy, agriculture, fintech and health industries. The firm focuses on Asia and the Pacific region. ADB Ventures was formed in January 2020 and is based in Manila, Philippines.

ADB Ventures is The Asian Development Bank’s (ADB) new facility to scale technology solutions for impact in Asia and the Pacific. ADB Ventures aspires to be a leading ImpactTech support platform with a robust portfolio of ImpactTech investments, partners across a thriving ImpactTech ecosystem, and meaningful accomplishments towards sustainable development goals.

Cerebro Labs is a tech business incubator and accelerator for pre-seed and early stage startups across all verticals. We seek out and invest in promising tech startups both local and foreign. We help startups CREATE a disruptive value proposition, INNOVATE their business models, and ACCELERATE their business growth through an array of business support services. We provide rigorous training and mentoring sessions to selected startups to help them overcome the hurdles in successfully launching their products or services. We also aim to assist startups to connect with a network of domain experts, investors, advisors, and corporate partners.

CLFG CAPITAL CORP. (CLFG CAP) is a private investment firm based in the Philippines that seek to partner with SMEs with sound business models and strong potential for earnings growth. We provide access to capital and other services for our potential partners. CLFG CAPITAL CORP. (CLFG CAP), a member of the CL Follosco Group, is a private investment firm based in the Philippines. We seek to partner with small and medium size companies with sound business models and strong potential for earnings growth.

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.

Lazada Group is Southeast Asia’s leading eCommerce platform. With a presence in six countries – Indonesia, Malaysia, the Philippines, Singapore, Thailand and Vietnam – we connect this vast and diverse region through our technology, logistics and payments capabilities. Today, we have the largest selection of brands and sellers, and by 2030, we aim to serve 300 million customers. In 2016, Lazada became the regional flagship of the Alibaba Group, and is backed by Alibaba’s best-in-class technology infrastructure.

Sierra Madre is a private equity (PE) group. Sierra Madre actively invests in and engages with companies to help them deliver significant change in their trajectory through strategy development, operational improvement and enhanced governance and sustainability practices. Sierra Madre’s team brings multi-stage investment experience across start-up, high-growth, carve-out,leveraged buyout and buy & build situations. Across economic cycles, the team has successfully deliveredreturns to investors, realizing investments through initial public offerings (IPOs), trade sales, private equity recapitalizations and management buy-backs.

Gobi Partners is one of the first venture capital firms with a regional presence across China, Hong Kong, and ASEAN with over US$1.1 billion in assets under management (AUM). The firm, headquartered in Shanghai and Kuala Lumpur, supports entrepreneurs from the early to growth stages and focuses on emerging and underserved markets., Gobi Partners is a venture capital firm specializing in incubation, startups, seed stage to Series C, early to growth stage investments in the Fintech sector. The firm focuses on emerging and underserved markets. It does not invest in the news sector. The firm prefers to invest in the media sector with a focus on telecommunications, entertainment, fashion, F&B, network lending, digital media, corporate services especially enterprise applications, enterprise cloud services, and consumer-related media. It seeks to invest in information technology, deep technology, hard and core technology, e-commerce, fintech, TaqwaTech, technology, sharing economy and artificial intelligence sectors. The firm invests in agriculture sectors including agricultural technology. It seeks to invest in mobile internet with a focus on applications, online-to-offline, and games, especially in online speech, online travel, virtual tourism, cloud computing and social-based. The firm also seeks to invest in automobiles, consumer upgrade, finance and education sectors. It prefers to invest in companies based in Asia, Africa, Australia, China, Hong Kong, Middle East, and the Southeast Asia region. The firm typically invests between $0.5 million to $20 million. Gobi Partners was founded on August 27, 2002 and is based in Shanghai, China with an additional office in Beijing, China; Shanghai, China; Tianjin, China; Singapore; Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia; Bangkok, Thailand; Manila, Philippines; and Jakarta, Indonesia. Gobi China is based in China.

Kaya Founders is an early-stage venture capital firm that invests in, accelerates, and builds impactful technology companies solving pressing problems in the Philippines and Southeast Asia.

Sweef Capital is a private equity firm specializing in emerging growth and growth stage. The firm also invest in private equity funds. The firm prefer to invest in healthcare, education, food systems, products and services, business services and climate resilience. The firm seeks to invest in Vietnam, Indonesia and the Philippines. The firm seeks to invest between $8 million and $10 million. Sweef Capital was founded in 2021 and is based in Singapore, Singapore with additional office in Vietnam and Indonesia.

Cento Ventures is a venture capital firm specialised in under-invested emerging digital markets, primarily Malaysia, Thailand, Singapore, Indonesia, the Philippines and Vietnam. Since 2011, we have been backing digital companies that blend local insights with proven digital business models. We support entrepreneurs in their ambition to build companies that are regional leaders in Southeast Asia.

Abler Nordic AS is a private equity and venture capital firm specializing in direct, and fund of funds investments in emerging, early stage, mature, and startup companies. The firm also prefers to invest in Debt, Sub-Debt and Equity instruments of microfinance institutions. It prefers to invest in young & emerging MFIs that have a clearly stated social mission and that have reached financial sustainability or have good prospects for attaining financial sustainability within the next few years. The firm also invests in other institutions providing financial inclusion to the poor in developing countries. It may in special cases invest in MIVs that focus on such institutions. The firm typically invests in companies based in Latin America, Sub-Saharan Africa with focus on Angola, Cameroon, Ethiopia, Ghana, Kenya and Ivory Coast, Malawi, Mozambique, Rwanda, Zimbabwe, Madagaskar, Zambia, Mali, Nigeria, Senegal, Tanzania, Uganda, Asia focusing on South and Southeast Asia, Nepal, Sri Lanka, Cambodia, Myanmar, Philippines, Indonesia, India, and Pakistan. It may also consider investments outside of these focus countries. The firm prefers to invest between $1 million and $8 million in companies with minimum total assets of $1 million. It prefers to take both minority positions in its investments and be an active investor. For equity investments, it prefers to take a stake of 10-30% in its portfolio companies. The firm seeks to take up governance positions in the board of the MFI or committees under the board. Abler Nordic AS was established in October 2008 and is based in Oslo, Norway with additional offices in Copenhagen, Denmark; Nairobi, Kenya, Tangerang, Indonesia & Bengaluru, India.

Foxmont Capital Partners is an early growth investment firm in the Philippines that invests in people and operational expertise, serving as a first institutional partner for local startups.

AYALA CORPORATION Ayala Corporation is one of the largest and most diversified business groups in the Philippines, with business interests in real estate, banking, telecommunications, water, power, industrial technologies, infrastructure, healthcare, and education. Its social commitment arm, Ayala Foundation, has programs that focus on education, youth leadership, sustainable livelihood, and the promotion of arts and culture. With headquarters in Makati City and operations mainly in the Philippines, it continues to grow its regional and global footprint, serving millions of customers across all market segments.

Circulate Capital is a venture capital and private equity firm specializing in startups, early venture and mezzanine and seeking for opportunities to invest in form of equity, quasi-equity, and debt (loans). The firm is investing in companies, projects, and infrastructure that will reduce the flow of plastic into the world’s oceans, waste management and recycling. It invests in opportunities that collect, sort, process, and manufacture using waste in areas known to contribute to the ocean plastic crisis. It also supports incubation of eco-systems of companies, NGOs and municipalities that will, among other things, increase the pipeline of investable opportunities for all investors. It invests in the entire plastic value chain, from innovations in material to advanced recycling technologies. The firm prefers to invest in South and Southeast Asian Countries mainly in India, Indonesia, the Philippines, Thailand and Vietnam as well as in Latin America and Caribbean. The Firm is seeking investments of $2 million or more or of smaller amounts in special circumstances in companies. Circulate Capital was founded in 2018 and is based in Singapore with additional offices in Brooklyn, New York, Indonesia and Brazil.

New Leaf Ventures (NLV) is the corporate venture arm of the CBTL Holdings (CBTL) group out of the Philippines. NLV was founded in 2013 with a vision to forge strategic relationships that complement and support CBTL’s portfolio of businesses across its core consumer sectors.

Primeiro Partners is a financial advisory firm founded to provide world-class independent strategic advisory services to leading companies, financial institutions, and professional investors in the Philippines and the Asia-Pacific Region.The firm’s independence, global perspective and on-the-ground first class execution capabilities differentiates it from traditional investment banks and local institutions, and enables Primeiro to provide highly customized, objective and innovative advice to clients.

Interplay cofounds, incubates and invests in companies. The firm is sector, geo and stage agnostic focusing on disrupting industries through the use of technology and design. Interplay is located in New York City with offices across the US, the Philippines and South America.