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IdeaSpace is a Philippine startup foundation and venture arm established in 2012, backed by First Pacific, Metro Pacific Investments Corporation (MPIC), PLDT-Smart, Meralco, and Maynilad — companies associated with businessman Manuel V. Pangilinan. It runs founder-focused accelerator programs for early-stage Filipino tech entrepreneurs. Since 2012, IdeaSpace has supported more than 100 startups, mentored over 300 entrepreneurs, and deployed roughly PHP 180 million toward ecosystem-building. It co-founded QBO Innovation Hub in 2016 alongside J.P. Morgan, DOST, and DTI, and continues to run recurring annual accelerator cohorts (its 10th batch was unveiled in 2023). Its venture arm, IdeaSpace Ventures, is positioned within the MPIC/MVP Group ecosystem, spanning mobility, healthcare, logistics, fintech, energy, digital infrastructure, and media.

Seedstars is a Switzerland-based investment and acceleration platform founded in 2012 in Geneva by Pierre-Alain Masson, Michael Weber, and Adrien, three Swiss entrepreneurs, with Alisée de Tonnac joining shortly after as co-CEO and co-founder. It began as a global startup-competition circuit ("Seedstars World") run in dozens of emerging and frontier markets and has since grown into a broader investment platform, running seed and early-stage funds (including Seedstars International Ventures and, more recently, a dedicated Seedstars Africa Ventures fund that reported a US$42 million first close in late 2024) alongside its acceleration programs. The Philippines has a real, if modest, connection to Seedstars: "Seedstars Manila" is a recurring local leg of the global Seedstars World competition, which surfaces and pitches early-stage Philippine startups as part of the worldwide circuit. This is a competition/community touchpoint rather than confirmed direct fund investment into a named Philippine company — no specific Philippine investee was independently confirmed for this profile beyond the Manila competition itself.