Franco Varona

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BRAVE Southeast Asia Tech: Singapore, Indonesia, Vietnam, Philippines, Thailand & Malaysia Startups, Founders & Venture Capital VC (English) · Franco Varona: Philippines’ Startup Boom, Global Diaspora Power & Why First Movers Win – E641 · 5 Nov 2025 podcast

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The friction in participating in the in the Philippine stock exchange.

And you know, I hate to put the pressure on it, but there are there there there are a lot of eyes on on G Cash as well.

Right, for these exits.

Anyway, so you know, this this question of the Philippines being too early, I think, is being answered by way on the existence of a lot of our funds because we're filling in that gap.

Right?

Entrepreneurs, investors, corporates, exits.

And and and you know, because of that, and because and by the way, the I'd like to say that this is actually the reason why Foxmont actually comes out with these Philippine venture capital reports every year.

It's because we need more attention on the Philippines, right?

So what we really try to do besides make great investments, which which we are very confident in all of our forty five, is bring more attention into this country.

talk to all of our fellow GPs, right?

We we don't think of other GPs as competition, never have.

We think of them as collaborators.

We think of them as people that will just help us kind of build out this ecosystem better.

And thankfully we found a lot of champions in Singapore as well in that regard that are starting to come into the Philippines a lot more often.

So I would say that the Philippines is no longer overlooked, uh, Jeremy, thankfully.

Um and and and thankfully, by the way, with with podcasts like yours that help us, you know, help us to bring more attention to this country.

I be I totally agree.

I think that's you know, this is again, you know, I I try to repeat this and bang the drums on this.

Like we do have a middle class that actually exists outside of this country, right?

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