Southeast Asian fintech company Brankas and venture funder Kaya Founders have just launched their first Open Finance accelerator program for Philippine startups.
The entry from the Philippines is Envirotech, a startup that collects single-use plastic (SUPs) and turns them into useful products such as school chairs.
Spanish startup Jeff has announced that it will open 10 more laundry hubs this year as it seeks to expand its business model consisting of a physical laundry shop combined with an online platform and mobile app for home-delivery laundry.
Aiming to rekindle love of Philippine culture and history in the nation’s learners, young Filipino indie game developer Audrey Stinson is set to launch her mobile game called Galà later this year.
NextPay, launched in 2020 amid the pandemic, is a platform that provides underserved customers democratized access to easy and affordable financial services such as digital invoicing, cash management, and batch payments to any bank or e-wallet in the Philippines.
Filipino-owned insurance firm Insular Life (InLife) announced on Tuesday, Nov. 16, that it has invested an undisclosed amount in Maria Health, which is said to be the only health insurance marketplace in the Philippines and a licensed insurance aggregator.
Cloud communications firm Infobip has launched its Startup Tribe program in Asia Pacific, an initiative that has received significant interest from startups across all industries since its global launch in May 2021.
A disaster risk management system for an island in Bohol created by a team of four students from various University of the Philippines campuses emerged as one of the Top 10 Global Finalists of Google Developer Student Clubs’ (DSC) 2021 Solution Challenge.
For the past two years, local outsourcing platform Marti has been connecting Filipino freelancers and studios with tech startups in the US, providing them with gigs via legitimate clients and rates that are 30- to 40-percent higher than those in the Philippines.