Narra Venture Capital

Narra Venture Capital is a venture capital firm based in Metro Manila, Philippines, founded in 2002. The firm invests in private high-technology companies and operates as a venture management and advisory group, offering capital, strategic guidance, and advisory support to portfolio members. Its investment focus spans semiconductor-related activities, internet, and software services, information systems, and general IT services; it also targets sectors such as green components and systems for communications and computing, business services, electronic manufacturing services, design services, commercial products, and computer hardware. Through its activities, Narra Venture Capital aims to back early- to growth-stage tech ventures in the Philippines and related tech ecosystems.

Paco Sandejas

Founding Managing Partner

7 past transactions

Xepto Education

Series A in 2019
Xepto Education is a company founded by experts in IT and academia, focused on integrating education and technology to empower educators and learners. The company develops an education platform that creates virtual environments for educational institutions, offering a customizable cloud-based learning management system. This platform provides access to high-quality tools and resources for teaching, training, and development, aiming to ensure equal access to world-class educational experiences.

Flyspaces

Seed Round in 2016
Flyspaces is a digital marketplace that connects entrepreneurs, start-ups, small and medium-sized enterprises, and mobile professionals with short-term work and meeting space solutions across key cities in Southeast Asia. The platform offers a network of hundreds of spaces available for varying durations, from a few hours to several months. For venue owners, Flyspaces serves as a digital marketing platform, enabling them to reach a broader audience and effectively optimize and monetize their properties. By recognizing the importance of a conducive workspace, Flyspaces aims to provide environments that inspire innovation, drive productivity, and facilitate business growth.

Astute Networks

Series B in 2012
Astute Networks, Inc. is a manufacturer of network-based virtualization appliances, specializing in performance storage solutions for physical, virtual, and cloud computing environments. Founded in 2000 and headquartered in San Diego, California, the company develops the VMware Ready Certified ViSX G3, which accelerates server and desktop virtualization as well as cloud computing infrastructures. Astute's offerings include solutions for Microsoft Exchange and SharePoint virtualization, along with support for Oracle, SAP, and SQL databases. The company’s patented DataPump Engine is designed to deliver high-performance iSCSI IOPS, ensuring sustained random I/O performance and effectively eliminating bottlenecks that can hinder virtual machine performance and user productivity. Astute Networks also maintains a strategic partnership with Veeam Software to enhance its service offerings.

Yatown

Angel Round in 2010
Yatown is a social networking platform based in Sunnyvale, California, established in 2010. The company focuses on fostering connections among neighbors, enabling users to share information and resources within their local communities. Yatown provides a welcoming environment for various activities, such as posting garage sales, announcing open houses, finding childcare services, offering pet walking, and promoting local events like school bake sales. By facilitating these interactions, Yatown aims to strengthen community ties and enhance neighborhood engagement.

Tropic Networks

Venture Round in 2005
Tropic Networks, Inc. designs, develops, and markets regional and metro-area optical networking equipment for telephony, data, and cable applications. The company offers Wavelength Tracker, an optical transport solution that leverages SONET/SDH familiarity to deliver optical layer intelligence; and various services for Tropic Networks platform and its related products, including network design, planning and installation, operation and maintenance consulting, and evaluation and modeling of network architecture, as well as training and planned upgrades. It also provides Networks TRX-24000, a metro optical transport platform that delivers dense wavelength division multiplexing and optical add-drop multiplexing for a host of services in a package. The company offers metro-optimized network solution for carriers to plan, manage, and scale the MAN; and to address the need for bandwidth expansion, optical transport, wavelength identification, and wavelength management in regional and metropolitan-area optical networks. Its metro optical networking solution streamlines the underlying optical layer architecture of DWDM/ODAM networks. Tropic Networks, Inc. was founded in 2000 and is headquartered in Ottawa, Canada.

Alphion

Series B in 2005
Alphion Corporation is a manufacturer of broadband solutions designed for businesses and communities, specializing in optical fiber-to-the-premises (FTTP) access systems, subsystems, and integrated photonic devices. Established in 2000 and headquartered in Princeton Junction, New Jersey, the company develops a comprehensive portfolio of products targeted at the rapidly growing FTTx market. Its offerings include GPON products suitable for diverse deployment environments, ranging from luxury developments to remote villages, and cater to various clients, including national service providers, local telecom operators, private cable operators, community networks, and enterprises. Alphion's solutions are crafted to facilitate the delivery of reliable and affordable broadband services, thereby enhancing connectivity across different sectors.

Tropic Networks

Series D in 2004
Tropic Networks, Inc. designs, develops, and markets regional and metro-area optical networking equipment for telephony, data, and cable applications. The company offers Wavelength Tracker, an optical transport solution that leverages SONET/SDH familiarity to deliver optical layer intelligence; and various services for Tropic Networks platform and its related products, including network design, planning and installation, operation and maintenance consulting, and evaluation and modeling of network architecture, as well as training and planned upgrades. It also provides Networks TRX-24000, a metro optical transport platform that delivers dense wavelength division multiplexing and optical add-drop multiplexing for a host of services in a package. The company offers metro-optimized network solution for carriers to plan, manage, and scale the MAN; and to address the need for bandwidth expansion, optical transport, wavelength identification, and wavelength management in regional and metropolitan-area optical networks. Its metro optical networking solution streamlines the underlying optical layer architecture of DWDM/ODAM networks. Tropic Networks, Inc. was founded in 2000 and is headquartered in Ottawa, Canada.
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