Investors
Angel networks, development finance institutions, financial institutions, private equity and venture capital firms deploying capital through a gender-smart lens.
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When capital finds women, economies transform.
The Philippines' first publicly accessible, interactive map of gender-smart capital: connecting investors, funds, startups, and policy bodies that are building a more equitable economy.
Closing the gap between capital and women-led businesses
The ecosystem exists. The map doesn't. Until now.
This map shows:
Which funds and development finance institutions are active and accessible to women-led businesses
Which accelerators and incubators explicitly support women founders across sectors and regions
Which corporations are practising genuine gender balance in capital, procurement, and leadership
How all these actors connect to each other — and to the women they intend to fund
The invisible distance
Capital side
Venture capital funds
Angel investor networks
Development finance
Corporate foundations
Impact investment funds
Women's side
Women-led startups
Women-led businesses
Women-owned MSMEs
Social enterprises
Growth-stage businesses
The Gender-Smart Investing Map opens pathways
Women-led businesses are thriving yet often hard to find. Now you have the map.
Female entrepreneurs in the Philippines are building real businesses, solving real problems, and generating real revenue. Our gender-smart map seeks to connect and grow the ecosystem.
What we are building
A living directory of Gender-Smart Investing
Every actor in the Philippines' gender-smart investing ecosystem:
verified, searchable, and connected.
Startups
Startups using innovation and technology that are women-owned, women-led or providing products and services that positively impact women as leaders, entrepreneurs, employees, and consumers.
Ecosystem
Accelerators, incubators, programmes, and intermediaries that actively back women founders and gender-smart enterprises.
Policy
Government agencies, universities, research institutions and advocates shaping the enabling environment.
Corporations
Companies and institutions advancing genuine gender balance in capital, procurement, and leadership.
Why this exists
Capital that backs women-led businesses still travels through a small number of relationships. Founders miss opportunities because the market is fragmented. Investors miss companies because information is scattered.
This directory is designed to make the ecosystem easier to understand. Listings are reviewed against a published standard and updated on a regular cycle.
Gender lens investing fund growth · Global index (2020 = 100)
Source: Project Sage (Wharton WSII), 2X Global, IFC Gender Finance
53%
of Philippine impact deals are made with an explicit gender lens
$330M
of impact capital deployed in the Philippines in 2022 — a sixfold rise from 2020
$2.5B
of gender-lens capital deployed across Southeast Asia
Why this. Why now.
The Philippines is where the regional story begins.
Gender-Smart Investing is among the fastest-growing fields in impact finance globally, but the infrastructure to connect capital and women enterprises in Southeast Asia simply does not exist yet.
The Philippines is uniquely positioned to build it. It has the gender parity leadership, the entrepreneurial culture, the policy frameworks, and a growing community of investors ready to act — if they could only see each other clearly.
The Gender-Smart Investing Map Philippines launches in 2026 as the proof of concept. Singapore, Malaysia, and Vietnam are next. The map we build here becomes the model for emerging markets everywhere.
We are not documenting an ecosystem. We are catalysing one, and the Philippines is where it begins.Tina Di Cicco, Kerubin Capital
Partners & Supporters
Built and backed by people who believe in this work
The Gender-Smart Investing Map is a collaboration between organisations committed to advancing gender-smart capital in Southeast Asia.
Should your organisation be on this map?
If you invest in, support, or build for women in the Philippines, you can submit your organisation for review.