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 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 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 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 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 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 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.