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WickedInnovations built websites. Its customers helped sell the next one.
The web agency paired Philippine design and development talent with a practical sales pitch: show the work, scope the job, and give satisfied customers something to pass along.
TechShake Knows Who You Should Meet Next
From startup stories in Manila to a new office in Tokyo, TechShake has built a business around useful introductions. The real test comes after the handshake.
Kaya Founders Has $25 Million for the Work Between Idea and Scale
The Philippine venture firm pairs two funds with a team of former operators. Its newest bets tackle an unglamorous obstacle to growth: the paperwork between a willing lender and a worthy borrower.
The Outsourcing Shop That Answers Your Inbox From Dipolog
A 130-person outsourcing team in a small northern Mindanao city quietly runs the inbox, the spreadsheet and the sales pipeline for businesses on the other side of the world.
Boost Capital
Agentic AI to deepen your customer profiles & broaden your customer base.
aCommerce
aCommerce is Southeast Asia's largest end-to-end e-commerce enabler, running online sales operations on behalf of global brands across Thailand, Indonesia, the Philippines, Malaysia and Singapore. Founded in Bangkok in 2013, it combines managed services - storefront design, performance marketing, customer care, warehousing and last-mile delivery - with a proprietary software stack, EcommerceIQ, that gives brands a single view of their marketplace, D2C and social-commerce channels. Backers include Emerald Media (KKR), Indies Capital and Blue Sky, and the company has raised roughly US$119M to date.
Dashlabs.ai
Dashlabs.ai is a Manila-based health-tech company (YC W21) that builds end-to-end, cloud-based software for medical laboratories and clinics. Its DIY laboratory information system connects lab machines, patient records, billing, and results into one platform, and it rose to prominence powering the Philippine Red Cross through millions of COVID-19 RT-PCR tests. Today it serves diagnostic labs, hospitals, dialysis centers, veterinary clinics, and corporate health programs across the Philippines.
NextPay
NextPay is a Philippine fintech that gives small and medium businesses the money-movement tools banks make hard to reach: batch payouts to any local bank or e-wallet, payroll, digital invoicing, QR Ph collections, and an API for embedded finance - with no corporate bank account, setup fee, or maintaining balance required. Founded by Don Pansacola and Aldrich Tan and backed by Y Combinator (W21), it has processed billions of pesos for thousands of growing Filipino businesses.
Go2: What Does an Engagement Manager Do?
In this candid onboarding session from remote-staffing company Go2, seasoned Success (Engagement) Managers pass down hard-won wisdom to a new hire named BJ. Between laughter and blunt honesty, they distill the role into a set of living principles: be the bridge between client and team, yell when you need help, don't take feedback personally, refuse to get comfortable, practice extreme ownership, and — most provocatively — chant 'f*ck Go2' to remind everyone that the welfare of teammates and clients comes before the company's bottom line. The video is less a job description than a culture-forging ritual, ending with BJ recapping every lesson and earning a 'Damn Solid B+.'
Etaily
Etaily is a Southeast Asian commerce enablement platform that helps global and regional consumer brands sell online across the region. Founded in 2020 by Alexander Friedhoff, it runs an end-to-end operation - marketplace and D2C store management, social commerce and livestreaming, digital marketing, data analytics, warehousing and fulfillment - so brands can launch and scale on channels like Lazada, Shopee, TikTok Shop, Zalora and brand.com without building local teams. Headquartered in the Philippines with offices in Singapore, Malaysia and Indonesia, Etaily has processed over 40 million orders and works with brands including Levi's, Skechers, Abbott and L'Oreal.
Exypnox Inc.
Exypnox Inc. is a Philippines-based business process outsourcing firm that builds dedicated, all-Filipino support teams for US-based software and technology companies. It handles customer support, technical support, accounting, payroll, compliance, and business development so that lean tech firms can scale operations at lower cost while keeping quality high. Founded in 2020 by former Boostlingo operations leader Francis Barte, Exypnox positions itself as a people-first outsourcing partner focused on long-term client retention and employee growth.
Xendit
Xendit is a Southeast Asian payments infrastructure company that lets businesses accept, process, and disburse money across Indonesia, the Philippines, Malaysia, and the wider region through a single API. Founded in 2015 and the first Indonesian company backed by Y Combinator, it handles virtual accounts, e-wallets, cards, QR codes, payouts, and fraud prevention for startups, marketplaces, and global enterprises expanding into the region.
Jacqueline Ramos
Jacqueline Ramos is a seasoned Executive Business Administrator at Microsoft with over 25 years of experience, currently supporting the COO, CMO for Central and Eastern Europe, Middle East & Africa (CEMA), and VP for Global Partner Solutions (GPS) in the EMEA region. Based in Dubai, UAE, she has built her Microsoft career from the ground up - starting as an Executive Assistant to the Gulf Services Director in 2008, rising through roles in business operations, and eventually becoming an executive-level administrator supporting some of the company's most senior regional leaders. She holds a Bachelor of Science in Civil Engineering from the University of San Jose-Recoletos in the Philippines and has leveraged her technical grounding alongside exceptional organizational and leadership skills to become one of Microsoft's most trusted operational connectors across its vast Middle East and global operations.
Jonathan Manalo
Jonathan Manalo is VP of Growth at Microsoft, operating from Central Luzon, Philippines. In this role he drives commercial expansion across one of the world's most influential technology companies - a company whose annual revenue exceeds $281 billion and whose technologies power enterprises from startups to sovereign governments. Based in the Philippines, Manalo sits at the intersection of Microsoft's deep enterprise portfolio - Azure, Microsoft 365, Copilot, and Dynamics 365 - and the rapidly digitizing Southeast Asian market.
zennya health
Zennya Health is a Philippine-based on-demand home healthcare platform that dispatches nurses, doctors, and wellness professionals directly to patients' homes, offices, and hotels. Founded in 2015 and powered by AI-guided care protocols, Zennya has completed over 600,000 service visits across Metro Manila and Metro Cebu, making professional medical care as easy to book as a rideshare.
Francis Barte
Francis Cruz Barte is the Chief Executive Officer of Exypnox Inc., a Philippines-based business process outsourcing company that partners exclusively with US-based software companies to build high-impact, cost-efficient remote teams. Operating out of San Francisco and Bonifacio Global City in Taguig, Metro Manila, Francis built Exypnox around a singular premise: that Filipino talent, properly organized and empowered, can rival any global workforce. With a background spanning BPO operations, enterprise sales, and regional management at companies like Boostlingo, he now leads a 75-person team delivering customer support, technical support, HR management, accounting, payroll, and business development services to fast-scaling US tech firms.
Dexter Ligot-Gordon
Dexter Ligot-Gordon is a California-born Filipino-American entrepreneur and Co-founder and CEO of Swarm, a GenAI consulting and implementation firm helping enterprises move AI projects from proof-of-concept to production. Before Swarm, he co-founded Kalibrr - the first Southeast Asian startup accepted into Y Combinator (W13) - and spent nearly a decade in public policy including serving as a UC Berkeley Student Regent. Swarm raised a $1.1M pre-seed round in November 2023 from Hustle Fund and Plug and Play.
David Foote
David Foote is the Founder and CEO of zennya health, a mobile-first on-demand healthcare platform operating in the Philippines that delivers medical and wellness services to people's homes in under 30 minutes. A serial entrepreneur with 25+ years building technology companies, Foote came to the Philippines for scuba diving and stayed to build a virtual hospital infrastructure that has completed over 600,000 services. Based between San Francisco and Manila, he leads a company of 110 employees with ~$31.3M in annual revenue backed by $1.2M in seed funding.