Katrina Victoria Gumaya
Katrina Victoria Gumaya is a multi-award-winning private wealth strategist, seasoned venture capital investor, and global keynote speaker with over two decades of leadership in finance, capital markets, and impact investing. As Founder and Managing General Partner of Katalyst Ventures in the Philippines and in Singapore, she leads investments across 27+ countries with a focus on frontier technologies, agritech, climate innovation, fintech, biotech, and women-led ventures. She also chairs global angel investment initiatives and serves as Country Chair and Senator for the Philippines at World Business Angels Investment Forum (WBAF), a G20-affiliated platform with highly vetted Angel Investors from more than 100 countries across 6 continents. Recognized as Female Investor of the Year at Westminster Palace in the UK, and Awarded under the patronage of the Crown Prince of Bahrain as the “Early Stage Venture Investor of the Year” during the World Congress of Angel Investors in 2024, she has made a name for herself as one of the most recognized and strategic female angel investors in South East Asia. She is also a Certified Investment Specialist with the AXA Group in the Philippines, and has been recognized with the GAMA Platinum Award - cementing her position as part of the Top 2% Leaders and Advisers in the Financial Services sector in more than 20 countries. She also advises family offices, UHNW investors, and early-stage founders on cross-border growth strategies. She is a passionate mentor to startup founders and newbie investors and entrepreneurs, bridging capital, strategy, and global networks. Grounded in her personal story of grit, her work reflects an ethos of borderless wealth, intellectual rigor, purposeful leadership, and impactful capital allocation. Outside of her work on high stakes finance, she is a mom to four triathletes and married to an architect and a triathlete too. Her life dictum for the last two decades has been, “Render yourself OBSOLETE every day.”