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Location: Philippines, Metro Manila, Makati
Employees: 11-50
Founded date: 2012
Investment Type: Venture Capital
Investment Stage: Series A
Portfolio 2
| Date | Name | Website | Total Raised | Location |
| 05.05.2026 | Featherles... | featherless.ai | $25M | United Sta... |
| 28.09.2022 | Clarity Mo... | clarity.io | $9.6M | China, Gua... |
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| Date | Title | Description |
| 10.05.2026 | Featherless Leads $20M AI Funding Surge Across Asia | Featherless, a Singapore-based open-source AI infrastructure platform, raised a $20 million Series A round. AMD Ventures and Airbus Ventures led this key investment. The company aims to democratize AI, providing neutral, efficient compute f... |
| 05.05.2026 | Deals in brief: Vertex Ventures backs ReN3 and Formas.ai; Featherless and SiamDL raise Series A funding; latest China investments, and more | ReN3 raises seed funding to scale agentic AI for enterprises ReN3, a Singapore-based work productivity startup, has raised USD 5 million in a seed funding round led by Vertex Ventures Southeast Asia and India (SEAI). The company builds arti... |
| 03.12.2025 | Ericsson and LotusFlare Announce Equity Investment and Strategic Partnership | STOCKHOLM and SANTA CLARA, Calif., Dec. 3, 2025 /PRNewswire/ -- Ericsson, a global leader in telecommunications solutions, today announced the closing of an equity investment in LotusFlare, a provider of a cloud-native digital commerce and ... |
| 13.11.2025 | Deals in brief: Grab invests USD 60 million in Vay, Transcelestial secures new funding, Bioactivx closes seed round, and more | Grab invests USD 60 million in remote driving technology firm Vay Grab has signed definitive agreements to invest USD 60 million in Germany-based Vay Technology, a developer of remote driving systems. The transaction, expected to close in t... |
| 23.02.2023 | Philippine fintech leader GCash joins plenary at Mobile World Congress | MANILA, PHILIPPINES – Media OutReach – 23 February 2023 – The Philippines #1 Fintech App GCash, operated by the Globe Group‘s Mynt, will join the plenary of the Mobile World Congress in Barcelona this month as its President and CEO Martha S... |
| 03.03.2020 | Kickstart Ventures seeks potential Philippine unicorns with USD 200 million fund | Philippine-based venture capital firm Kickstart Ventures said it seeks to support potential tech unicorns and help companies expand across Southeast Asia through its USD 200 million fund, Manila Standard reported. “There is a 650-million pe... |
| 18.09.2019 | Corporate-startup partnerships aren’t an easy win-win. Here’s why. | Corporate-startup partnerships are on the rise. Since 2013, the number of corporate investments in startups has nearly tripled to 2,795 in 2018 from 980, increasing nearly 10 times in value to $180 billion from $19 billion. That’s according... |
| 09.05.2019 | Kickstart Ventures to Manage $150M Venture Capital Fund of Ayala Corporation | Philippines-based Kickstart Ventures, Inc., a wholly-owned subsidiary of Globe Telecom, was selected by Ayala Corporation (AC) to manage its new US$150m venture capital fund. The Ayala Corporation Technology Innovation Venture (ACTIVE) Fund... |
| 29.04.2019 | Ayala Corp to launch a USD 150 million venture capital fund targeting early stage startups | As part of its effort to ramp up digitization, Ayala Corporation, the oldest and largest conglomerate in the Philippines will be launching a new venture capital fund with at least USD 150 million to invest in early stage startups and innova... |
| 29.04.2019 | Philippines’ Ayala Corp Raising US$150-M Fund for Disruptive Early-Stage Startups | The Ayala Corporation, Philippines’ oldest conglomerate, is raising a new venture capital fund worth US$150 million, dedicated towards investing into early stage startups engaged in e-commerce, as well as what the company deems as disruptiv... |
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