Global tech through a Filipino lens. What it means for PH founders, always.
Bain Capital closed its sixth Asia fund at $10.5 billion, blowing past its original $7 billion target, a reminder that record capital flowing into Asia is concentrating at the growth and buyout stage most Philippine startups aren't yet big enough…
Goldman Sachs disclosed $260 million in XRP and Solana ETF holdings at the end of 2025, its first crypto position…
The Senate Banking Committee advanced the Clarity Act, the US crypto industry's long-sought market-structure bill, on a bipartisan 15-9 vote…
Tonik became the first standalone digital bank in the Philippines to reach cash-flow profitability in Q1 2026, a milestone GCash…
Isomorphic Labs closed a $2.1 billion Series B led by Thrive Capital to scale an AlphaFold-derived drug design engine already…
A researcher used publicly accessible quantum hardware to break a toy-scale elliptic curve key in April and collect a Bitcoin…
Salmon Group closed a $100 million equity-and-bond round in April, the largest single funding event for a Philippine startup in…
Grab is consolidating its stake in Indonesia's publicly-listed Superbank into GXS Bank, its Singapore digital banking venture with Singtel, combining…
A Solana-based DeFi protocol lost $285 million in 12 minutes on April 1 after North Korean state-linked hackers spent six…
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…