The Global Startup Ecosystem Report 2020 puts the value of Manila’s startup ecosystem at $1.6 billion, with a total early stage funding of $102 million over the last two and a half years.
App-based logistics and storage firm Keepr Storage PH said it has resumed operations using a strict no-contact policy that allows staff and essential personnel to safely interact with consumers.
The food delivery app said customers can now order grocery items without any minimum order requirement and have them delivered right to their doorsteps at an average delivery time of 25 minutes or less.
Instead of asking P11.7 billion to be spent on contact tracers, Sen. Panfilo Lacson is urging the Department of Health (DOH) to just copy simple yet effective apps deployed by the local governments of Baguio and Carmona, Cavite.
The website’s #TogetherAhead initiative will focus on highlighting home-based and freelance employment opportunities, which are now posted on its dedicated Covid-19 Jobs and Resources Hub.
Giving Hero, which is one of the incubatees of UPSCALE Innovation Hub in UP Diliman, said the mobile app allows individual donors to make donations to NGOs at their fingertips.