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Kita, an AI credit-assessment startup co-founded by a Manila-born Stanford graduate, raised a $4.5 million seed round backed by Tala founder Shivani Siroya and Y Combinator, aiming to automate loan underwriting for borrowers traditional systems overlook.
PEZA's July board approvals fell nearly 40% year-on-year even as the seven-month total surged past P151 billion — a split…
BSP upgraded MariBank Philippines to a full digital bank license this month, making Shopee parent Sea Limited the seventh operator…
Maya and GCash both publicly flagged ransomware, phishing, and AI-enabled attacks as their top cyber threats this week — a…
Philippine startup funding is technically climbing, but almost every peso and dollar of it still lands in Metro Manila, leaving…
Kickstart Ventures joined a $9 million Pre-Series A round for California-based Sprouts.ai, part of a deliberate 2026 strategy of selective…
NMBLR.ai, profitable since 2024, opened a Makati AI training and development hub without a venture round behind it, a rare…
Salmon Group closed a $100 million equity-and-bond round in April, the largest single funding event for a Philippine startup in…
DTI's target of a $10 billion Philippine startup ecosystem by 2028 requires nearly tripling the 2023 Startup Genome baseline, a…
Foxmont Capital Partners is targeting up to 4 billion pesos for Philippine startups and reports private capital deployment hit a…
A government grant window and a new agri-focused startup competition are surfacing real Philippine agritech ideas, but the entire sector…
BCRemit and Coins.ph are moving OFW remittances through USDC stablecoin rails at roughly 1 percent cost against a 6.4 percent…