Headlines below link to articles covering The Philippines’ startup scene across July 2020
Each article headline focuses on a Filipino startup news item, and is linked to the full online news article for that item. Each linked article covers a tech aspect of the Filipino startup scene in some way, with items covering subjects ranging from individual Filipino startups to implementations of specific technologies in The Philippines; a Filipino startup gaining VC funding, or the introduction of a mobile payments service in The Philippines, for example.
This provides our readers with two things:
an at-a-glance overview of Filipino startup news and a one-click way to get full information on a Filipino startup news item.
- Philippines: State-owned Overseas Filipino Bank becomes first digital-only bank, and the country’s first branchless government bank
- Philippines: Gov’t launches Digital Cities 2025 initiative, creating and developing ICT hubs in in 25 cities outside the National Capital Region
- Philippines: tonik, the country’s first digital-only neobank, partnered by Mastercard to accelerate financial inclusion, following tonik gaining bank license
- Philippines: A livestream presentation delivered by Google Maps’ regional head on startup culture, hosted by IdeaSpace Foundation incubator and accelerator
- Philippines: First episode of StartUp Nation on YouTube, talking about the status of startups in the country, in Tagalog
- Philippines: An intro to Connected Women, training skilled and underskilled women to become data annotators, essential in any program that uses AI
- Philippines: An intro to Avion School, providing a way for Filipinos to learn software development and technical skills without upfront costs, backed by Tinder co-founder
- Philippines: A video intro to Connected Women, providing free AI training for underskilled women in partnership with UN Women
- Podcast: Saving the Philippines’ startup ecosystem in the face of COVID-19 impacts
- Philippines: KonsultaMD telehealth startup reports 450% jump in consultations from January to April in response to COVID-19
- Singapore’s SWAT Mobility partners Toyota Motor Philippines for corporate smart transportation solutions in Metro Manila
- Philippines: 77 priority sites in Northern Samar province to get free internet under Free WiFi for All project, including municipal halls and public schools
- Philippines: A look at Vonzella, social impact startup serving the under-banked by focusing on solutions for the traditional bail system
- Philippines: Pickaroo app launches with sights on being the country’s all-in-one purchase and delivery platform
- Philippines: MyKuya on-demand services startup to expand to Cavite, Pangasinan, Quezon and Zambales, pushing franchise program and aiming for further regional growth
- India’s Zeta fintech startup expands neo-bank platform-as-a-service to The Philippines and Vietnam
- An intro to 5 of the 12 startups from recently-launched Singapore Food Bowl accelerator program, focused on boosting food security
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