Chapter 2

Emerging Asia

Philippine Venture Capital Investment Group1

In April 1987, when Philippines’ economy was starting to recover from the replacement of President Marcos by President Aquino, a group of six people in Manila got together to talk about deals, funding, financing, and different types of projects including businesses that needed different types of resources. They quickly realized this type of forum was very helpful, so the group started to hold regular monthly meetings; usually, they planned for the third Wednesday or third Thursday of the month. As the group got bigger, they started to meet at the Bayanihan Room in the SyCip Gorres Velayo & Company (SGV) building, courtesy of one of the SGV business partners, and they formally ...

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