
Kickstart Ventures
111 Valero St, Salcedo Village, Makati, 1227, Philippines
Overview
Kickstart Ventures Inc. puts big company resources - capital, facilities, expertise and business connections - behind startups, so investees can launch faster, and achieve scale and profitability sooner. Kickstart Ventures, Inc. is a fully-owned subsidiary of leading telecommunications company Globe Telecom launched in March 2012 to help support and develop a dynamic community of technopreneurs in the Philippines. It is committed to build innovative businesses in cooperation with like-minded individuals and organizations by providing funding, mentorship and education.
- Total investments
- 17
- Lead investments
- 2
- Investments · 12mo
- 3
- Active investors
- 6
Sector focus
- Finance
- Financial Services
- Venture Capital
Investment portfolio
- Featherless.ai
Participated · Series A · Apr 2026
Featherless.ai operates a serverless inference platform designed to make open-source AI models production-ready and accessible at scale. The platform supports over 30,000 open models across language, vision, and audio and is described as the fastest-growing Hugging Face inference partner. The founding team created RWKV, an open-source architecture intended to provide an alternative to transformer dominance. Featherless.ai positions itself as a neutral layer unaligned with any hyperscaler or proprietary ecosystem and hosts core infrastructure in the US and EU while maintaining a global team. It pursues hardware diversity through a strategic collaboration with AMD to run popular open models natively on AMD ROCm. The company plans to launch a marketplace for specialized open models and deepen integrations with diverse hardware to lower inference costs and expand enterprise adoption. Financially, it recently completed a $20M Series A led by strategic corporate venture investors.
- Eezee
Participated · Series B · Feb 2026
Eezee operates an online procurement marketplace focused on low-value, long-tail enterprise purchases, a category it says remains largely manual and fragmented. Its AI-powered products, RFQBot and ProcureFlow, cut procurement cycles from days to minutes and help clients reduce costs by at least 20 %. Headquartered in Singapore, the company already serves businesses in Singapore, Malaysia, Indonesia and the Philippines, and has just expanded into Thailand. Management reports that growth has accelerated every quarter since Q1 2025, with Malaysian and Indonesian operations achieving operational profitability. The firm plans to roll out its AI modules to additional markets during the first half of 2026 while continuing regional expansion. By pairing automation with supply-chain optimization, Eezee aims to modernize a historically under-optimized enterprise function and capture a fragmented Southeast Asian market. The newly raised capital bolsters its resources amid a tighter funding environment and supports both product enhancement and geographic growth.
- Quickture
Led · Seed · Dec 2025
Quickture is a Los Angeles–based provider of an AI video-editing platform that transforms hours of raw footage into clear narratives in a fraction of the usual time. The software integrates directly with Avid Media Composer and Adobe Premiere Pro, allowing editors to find key moments, test alternate scenes, assemble rough cuts in minutes, and collaborate interactively. Designed for long-form, dialogue-heavy projects such as reality TV, documentaries, news, sports, and corporate videos, the platform aims to reduce costs and editor burnout while encouraging creative experimentation. In conjunction with its financing, the startup launched Quickture Vision, a visual-analysis engine that lets editors search and edit footage by what is happening on screen and automates many post-production tasks. The founding team includes CEO Irad Eyal, CPO Ron Eyal, CTO Gary Grossman, and CSO Matt Hanna. Quickture has emerged from stealth with $1.9 million in pre-seed funding, providing resources to deepen integrations with Avid and Adobe and to broaden its reach to more creators, studios, and storytellers worldwide.
- Transcelestial Technologies
Participated · Series A · Feb 2023
Transcelestial develops shoebox-sized CENTAURI devices that send lasers to one another to form a fiber-like wireless network. The system is designed to avoid underground cables and radio-frequency licensing issues, enabling a lower cost per bit. CENTAURI units have been deployed in South Asian and Southeast Asian markets, and the company demonstrated its technology delivering 5G connectivity at the University of Technology Sydney. Transcelestial plans regional expansion across Indonesia, India, the Philippines, Malaysia, Singapore and the United States, and is working under stealth with a few ISPs and a major enterprise cloud and data center company on the U.S. West Coast. The startup is also developing a low-earth-orbit constellation to deploy its wireless fiber optics from orbit. Its Terabit Factory has capacity to manufacture up to 2,400 CENTAURI devices annually, and recent funding will be used in part to harden that facility against supply-chain uncertainties.
- SariSuki
Led · Equity · Dec 2022
SariSuki is a Philippine social commerce startup founded by former Grab Philippines president Brian Cu. The company operates in the social commerce space, connecting buyers and sellers through online social channels. According to regulatory filings cited in the article, SariSuki has raised about $12.7 million in fresh funding. The round was led by Kickstart Ventures. The article does not provide additional details on product specifics, revenue, user metrics, or future plans. Public regulatory filings were the source of the fundraising disclosure. SariSuki is a Manila-based social commerce and community group buying startup that sells daily essentials and groceries via a quick-commerce app. The app commits to delivering high-quality produce in under 15 minutes within its coverage areas. Founded in 2021, the company has served more than 60,000 consumers and grown its team to over 100 employees. In its latest round SariSuki raised US$7.1M, bringing total funding to US$10.5M in 2021. The company plans to use the funds to increase product assortment, build dark warehouses and expand geographically. Operating metrics reported in the article include the user count (>60,000) and employee headcount (100+).