The first phase of the Artist Collective is a residency at Draper Startup House Manila where artists will stay onsite and create physical artworks which will be permanently displayed in the space and its rooms to boost community connection and local culture in Draper Startup House Manila’s hotel. In-residency produced works will be the artists’ permanent exhibit at the space to bring exposure to their art and establish their contribution to building the physical Web3 hub of Manila.
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in September 2022
- Philippines: Draper Startup House Manila launches Meta Manila as part of Artist Collective program for emerging Web3 artists
- Philippines: Shipmates raises $2.2M, streamlining deliveries and order fulfilment by consolidating several couriers into one platform, with online sellers booking couriers through the Shipmates app
- Download: ‘The Future of Corporate Innovation in the Philippines’ from Embiggen Consulting (pdf)
- Philippines: An intro to MooMart, online market allowing farmers of any scale to sell produce directly to consumers, from households to businesses, side-stepping middlemen and resellers
- Philippines: GCash app to offer stock trading in move Philippine Stock Exchange hopes will be a game changer for the local equities market, growing GCash from payments app to wider finance platform
- Philippines: CloudEats ‘cloud kitchens’ startup in the Philippines and Vietnam, raises $7M Series A extension with digitization of food services, looking at Thailand, Malaysia and Indonesia entry in 2023
- Philippine Blockchain Week 2022 set for Nov 28th to Dec 4th with speakers from Animoca Brands, Pentas, UnionBank and more
- Vietnam and The Philippines take top spots in Chainalysis report on global cryptocurrency adoption, with Asia and emerging markets leading overall
Philippine Blockchain Week 2022 / November 28th to December 4th
in August 2022
Philippines: Future Of E-Commerce (pdf)
- Philippines: Packworks raises $2M seed funding to scale digital services platform for sari-sari stores, sights now on connecting retailers with financial institutions and brands
- Parent firm of Philippines’ UNO Digital Bank secures $11M pre-A funding, with sights on financial and banking services for the country’s 45 million underbanked population
- Philippines Startup Week 2022 has been set for November 14-18, running with the theme of ‘Homegrown Heroes – Cultivating Future Tech Giants’
- Philippines: CoinsPH fiat and crypto wallet provider partners Globe Telecom to offer crypto in exchange for reward points via telco’s loyalty program
- Philippines: Roxe blockchain backbone firm partners Cebuana Lhuillier microfinance firm to boost cross-border remittances
- Philippines: Twala gains $80K grant from Dep’t of Science and Tech boost company uptake of blockchain-backed digital signatures
Deloitte: Women At Work in 2022
- Lufthansa Technik Philippines Startup Challenge launches open call for new tech solutions for the aviation maintenance, repair and overhaul industry
- Philippines: UnionBank set to become country’s first bank allowing users to buy and sell cryptocurrencies directly from the banking app without a third party wallet
- Philippines: Central bank to close applications for new virtual asset service provider licenses for 3 years from Septembers, seeking balance between boosting innovation and managing associated risks
- Philippines: edamama parent-focused e-commerce firm closes $20M Series A round, offering services from online community platform to same-day deliveries
- Philippines: A brief look at the 8 startups from the recent Dynamic Space San Francisco Startup Pitch Night, working on prop-tech, on-demand services, e-learning and more
- Philippines: Open PHinance Challenge launches 8–week accelerator with 11 startups selected to work on a new wave of open finance products for the Philippines and SE Asia
Southeast Asia’s digital consumers / Meta and Bain & Co (pdf)
in July 2022
- Philippines: An intro to yufin, merchant fintech platform enabling underserved and often unbanked SMEs in emerging markets to enter the digital economy
- Philippines: Alibaba Netpreneur Training to launch with QBO Innovation Hub, Gobi Partners VC firm and JCI Manila, a 4-week program focusing on online commerce
- Philippines: Central bank is exploring 3 key technologies for new financial market infrastructure, including blockchain, whilst developing POCs in 6 technologies including AI
- Philippines: Asia Open RAN Academy launches, backed by Tokyo and Washington, to boost open radio access network knowledge across members of ASEAN
- Philippines: A brief intro to MadEats, a Y Combinator graduate ‘full-stack’ food delivery-only firm featuring virtual shop, ‘ghost kitchens’ and a fleet of drivers
- Philippines: Investree crowdfunding platform launches ‘2gether Towards the Future’ campaign to help the country’s SMEs, looking to expand Dept of Trade & Industry partnership
- Philippines: DigiCon Valley 2022 conference set for October, delivered by the Internet & Mobile Marketing Association of the Philippines
- Philippines: An intro to Advanced Abilities and Smartscan AI-enabled X-ray platform, able to detect up to 25 chest pathologies in 2 minutes, tapping a database of 6M images
- Philippines: IdeaSpace Demo Day lands investment for Betterteem, Fitscovery and Twala, startups working on HR tech, fitnes management and fintech solutions
- Philippines: Alibaba Cloud x KrASIA Startup Accelerator Philippines Demo Day finals set for July 27th, running from Draper Startup House in Makati
- Philippines: Dart quick-commerce startup to launch 15-minute grocery delivery services, partnering Robinsons Supermarket’s 274-outlet chain
- Testing, testing… We’re on Substack, and issue 1 is out now – quick tech news from across Asia for a time-poor readership
- Singapore’s JiPay backed by Manila Angel Investors Network, to provide wide-spectrum financial services to migrant domestic workers across SE Asia
The Indo-Pacific Strategy of the United States
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