Startup & Tech Glossary

Plain-English definitions of startup, funding, AI, and tech terms — with Philippine examples where possible.

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Due Diligence

Funding Investment

Due diligence is the detailed check an investor does on a startup's finances, legal status, and team before finalizing an investment.

Exchange

Crypto Web3

A crypto exchange is a platform where people buy, sell, and trade cryptocurrencies for pesos, dollars, or other digital assets.

Exit

Funding Investment

An exit is the event where founders and investors finally turn their startup ownership into real cash, usually via acquisition or IPO.

Fine-Tuning

Ai Machine Learning

Fine-tuning is further training an existing AI model on a smaller, specific set of examples so it gets better at one task.

Foundation Model

Ai Machine Learning

A foundation model is a huge, general-purpose AI model trained on massive data that can be adapted for many different tasks.

Founder

Startup Basics

A founder is the person who starts a company, taking on the early risk of turning an idea into a working business before anyone else believes in it.

Founders’ Agreement

Legal and Regulatory

A founders' agreement is a signed contract between co-founders that spells out equity splits, vesting, roles, and what happens if someone leaves early.

Foxmont Capital

Philippine Ecosystem

Foxmont Capital is a Manila-based venture capital firm that funds early-stage Philippine startups, mainly at seed and Series A.

Freemium

Business Models

Freemium is a pricing model where a basic version of a product is free forever, while advanced features are locked behind a paid upgrade.

Gas Fee

Crypto Web3

A gas fee is the small payment you make to a blockchain's network for processing your transaction or smart contract — it goes to the network, not a company.