Startups / Apps

This marks that first time that the UPSCALE Innovation Hub has signed agreements with foreign incubators.

Commuters may reserve seats from three months up to just five days before their departure date.

The MarCoPay app will utilize QR codes that vessel masters and seafarers could use to manage, receive, spend, and remit their salaries in the form of e-money.

Talino Venture Labs, headed by its CEO Winston Damarillo, said the three startups -- Saphron, Asenso, and Unawa -- all aim to “drive inclusion and access” for the “underserved.”

Local start-up accelerator IdeaSpace has announced its investment in the top three teams for this year’s start-up competition, after a rigorous four-month acceleration program where 20 start-ups worked with mentors to refine their business and financial model, product, operations, and communications.

The app has gotten a fairly positive response from the initial user base, with many saying that the crowd monitoring feature of ikotMNL enables them to plan their trips ahead and estimate the duration of their rides which helps for time management.

Sprout's Payroll for Small Businesses software is free for companies with only 50 or less employees.

Government authorities have signed the implementing rules and regulations (IRR) for the law providing incentives to local startups.

Singapore-based technology firm BCB Blockchain has announced a P15-million fund to support local incubators and startup accelerators under the Department of Science and Technology (DOST).

The DOST has launched the “TBI 4.0 Program” to upgrade the capabilities of the agency’s TBI (technology business incubation) network through a more transformational intervention that would set off the “internationalization” of Philippine TBIs.