Erika Aquino

Angel/ Seed Investing, Marketing Strategy

📍 Philippines🔄 Updated September 2026💼 21 investments📅 3 years investing🗓 Last invested May 2025
VC🌍 Philippines20+ investments
21
Total investments
2
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7
Mid stage
4
Late stage
3y
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May 2025
mavn is the ultimate influencer/content creator marketing tool built to streamline opportunities between creators & luxury brands while providing a safe and effective data driven experience for both. For brands, all communication, contracting, payment, and disputes are handled within the mavn app. This allows for a seamless process for vetting, approving, paying, and communicating with a content creator all in one place. Additionally, the propriety insights code within the mavn app will allow for any business to understand their true ROI when working with a content creator. Features such as follower growth, sales generated, and/or engagement gained after working with a creator are provided through analytics along with other relevent KPI data. For creators, mavn has the ability to deliver elite opportunities, precise campaign information & garner in-depth insights for understanding which brands and opportunities work best for them, all with just a click. Opportunities for creators can range from P2P, bartering, gifting, classes, B2B brand services & offerings, event experiences and more. By bridging this gap between brands and creators, mavn is the solution to streamlining opportunity and communication within one channel.
Investor
Feb 2025
Gritty In Pink is a new platform empowering women in music through an online network/marketplace, events, media content and lifestyle partnerships- on a mission to achieve gender equality in the music business, and beyond. Founder Shira Yevin has a legendary history of breaking down barriers and carving out a space for women, as the creator of the Vans Warped Tour Shiragirl Stage, which showcased 300+ female musicians including Joan Jett and Paramore. Gritty in Pink continues the legacy of providing community and a stage for female voices in a male-dominated industry. Gritty in Pink created Gritty Rocks Live (GRL), an Instagram livestream show featuring female musicians from across the country, and beyond. In 2020, Gritty in Pink started a successful monthly event in Los Angeles; during the COVID-19 quarantine, we then created GRL, to provide artists with connection and performance opportunities. The GRL IG livestream features a live charity fundraiser, sponsor giveaways, intimate performances, artist interviews, and audience engagement. Artists of diverse backgrounds and genres each invite their followings into the interactive livestream, coming together to grow our community. Most recently, Gritty In Pink launched the INPINK marketplace, connecting the music industry to a community of diverse female creators and pros. Our beta is up now at inpink.com and our big vision is to be the global destination for female freelancers in every industry! We are partnered with Melissa Etheridge, Live Nation, and more to come...
Investor
Feb 2025
We connect people over pure botanical libations made to honor the body, mind, spirit, Village, and Earth.
Investor and Chief Marketing Strategist
Jan 2025
Digital Brilliance & Intelligent Strategy for All.
Investor
Jan 2025
Imaginable Impact is an inclusion studio that designs programs and products that burst open access to leadership, economic empowerment, and wealth-building opportunities. We are working to create the equitable world we imagine, not just for ourselves, but for future generations. We partner with leaders, organizations, and communities to develop programs and initiatives designed to ignite conversations, shift culture, and build a more diverse, equitable world.
Investor
Nov 2024
We create beautiful, delicious drinks that are all-natural, light, & refreshing using local California ingredients.
Investor
Aug 2024
Partytrick is revolutionizing the $323B event planning industry by offering a turnkey solution that’s as intuitive as Shopify. Our smart platform empowers individuals, businesses, and brands to create seamless, memorable experiences effortlessly. Our comprehensive solution is designed for everyone from the everyday consumer to emerging brands to Fortune 500 companies. By automating planning, design, and execution, Partytrick helps users save time, reduce costs, and build stronger communities. With Partytrick, event execution is centralized and streamlined from start to finish. Our platform automates repeatable events at scale, enabling businesses to enhance community loyalty, boost employee retention and satisfaction, and elevate both internal and external events with unmatched efficiency and data-driven insights. Key Features: End-to-End Automation: From initial concept to final execution, Partytrick covers all aspects of event planning. Scalable Solutions: Ideal for events of any size, from intimate gatherings to large corporate functions. Data-Driven Insights: Optimize your events with analytics that measure ROI and engagement. Whether you’re planning a small celebration or a large corporate event, Partytrick acts as a virtual party planner in your pocket, supporting every detail to ensure you can entertain with ease and confidence. Experience the future of event planning with Partytrick—where every event is a success, every time.
Investor
Aug 2024
Elavi is a certified woman-owned food company delivering low sugar, high protein sweet snacks designed by fitness trainers.
Investor
May 2024
west~bourne is the go-to brand for zero-waste, planet positive provisions for the next generation. We’re countering climate change one craveable, regeneratively farmed bite at a time. Welcome to our uncompromising work in progress.
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May 2024
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May 2024
Former social worker Amy Christiansen founded Sana Jardin as a way to empower women through the Beyond Sustainability™ movement - it provides fair wages and teaches business skills to the Moroccan workers who harvest the flowers used in her fragrances. Formulated in collaboration with renowned master perfumer Carlos Benaim, this collection of eau de parfums and candles features a blend of essential oils and hand-picked plants presented in recycled packaging. We take pride in what’s on the inside; the parts you can’t see. Our scents are clean to the core; vegan friendly and adhering to the highest clean beauty standards possible, with no chemical nasties. All products are free of artificial colorants, parabens, phthalates and formaldehydes. The soul of our scents is born in the flower fields of Morocco, where the flower harvesters chant as they pick the orange blossom, rose and jasmine used in our fragrances, a ritual thought to purify the soul of the flower. Our alternative business model, The Beyond Sustainability Movement, seeks to prove circularity, social impact and collaboration is entirely possible in luxury business.
Investor
Feb 2024
Mylo Speech Buddy is a Speech Development System for children with Autism and Speech Delay.
Investor
Jan 2024
Humble is a circular economy startup, helping businesses with the products theyre struggling to sell. We do this sustainably, with excellent service and high value recovery. We bring every item back into circularity! Humble does this by working with companies to handle their inventory that would otherwise end up in landfills. We sell the high value items on Thrift by Humble, our own circular living e-commerce store, while everything else goes to our network of B2B recyclers, resellers and upcyclers. Weve been successfully doing this with some of the top brands, e-commerce and logistics companies in the country! If you have items to sell or youre interested in buying quality and affordable products, please reach out to us. Our ‘reason’ is to build a platform and community where anything can be brought back into circularity by anyone!
Investor
Jan 2024
We believe wine is an experience. We put that experience into cans because we believe they are the most sustainable format for wine. Our wines are sustainably farmed, low intervention(no chemical manipulation in the cellar), minimal sulfur, dry (no sugar) and vegan. Were taking sommelier curation beyond the fine dining restaurant into the perfect single serving.
Investor
Dec 2023
Urban Greens’ mission is to disrupt the Philippine food scene by producing cleaner, fresher, smarter grown greens, made possible by sustainable hydroponic indoor farming, and thus creating a supply chain that is safe from the calamities that endanger us many times every single year. For 2021, we aim to expand production far beyond Manila to reach more commercial and private customers in and around the city. Urban Greens is currently transforming a 700sqm warehouse in Manila into the countries first mid-size indoor vertical farm with further larger production sites in Manila and beyond in the pipeline – all at a fraction of the electricity usage compared to other vertical farms. The steps we take today will plant the seed for the future we want to see and live in.
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May 2025
mavn is the ultimate influencer/content creator marketing tool built to streamline opportunities between creators & luxury brands while providing a safe and effective data driven experience for both. For brands, all communication, contracting, payment, and disputes are handled within the mavn app. This allows for a seamless process for vetting, approving, paying, and communicating with a content creator all in one place. Additionally, the propriety insights code within the mavn app will allow for any business to understand their true ROI when working with a content creator. Features such as follower growth, sales generated, and/or engagement gained after working with a creator are provided through analytics along with other relevent KPI data. For creators, mavn has the ability to deliver elite opportunities, precise campaign information & garner in-depth insights for understanding which brands and opportunities work best for them, all with just a click. Opportunities for creators can range from P2P, bartering, gifting, classes, B2B brand services & offerings, event experiences and more. By bridging this gap between brands and creators, mavn is the solution to streamlining opportunity and communication within one channel.
Investor
Feb 2025
Gritty In Pink is a new platform empowering women in music through an online network/marketplace, events, media content and lifestyle partnerships- on a mission to achieve gender equality in the music business, and beyond. Founder Shira Yevin has a legendary history of breaking down barriers and carving out a space for women, as the creator of the Vans Warped Tour Shiragirl Stage, which showcased 300+ female musicians including Joan Jett and Paramore. Gritty in Pink continues the legacy of providing community and a stage for female voices in a male-dominated industry. Gritty in Pink created Gritty Rocks Live (GRL), an Instagram livestream show featuring female musicians from across the country, and beyond. In 2020, Gritty in Pink started a successful monthly event in Los Angeles; during the COVID-19 quarantine, we then created GRL, to provide artists with connection and performance opportunities. The GRL IG livestream features a live charity fundraiser, sponsor giveaways, intimate performances, artist interviews, and audience engagement. Artists of diverse backgrounds and genres each invite their followings into the interactive livestream, coming together to grow our community. Most recently, Gritty In Pink launched the INPINK marketplace, connecting the music industry to a community of diverse female creators and pros. Our beta is up now at inpink.com and our big vision is to be the global destination for female freelancers in every industry! We are partnered with Melissa Etheridge, Live Nation, and more to come...
Investor
Feb 2025
We connect people over pure botanical libations made to honor the body, mind, spirit, Village, and Earth.
Investor and Chief Marketing Strategist
Jan 2025
Digital Brilliance & Intelligent Strategy for All.
Investor
Jan 2025
Imaginable Impact is an inclusion studio that designs programs and products that burst open access to leadership, economic empowerment, and wealth-building opportunities. We are working to create the equitable world we imagine, not just for ourselves, but for future generations. We partner with leaders, organizations, and communities to develop programs and initiatives designed to ignite conversations, shift culture, and build a more diverse, equitable world.
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