Taipei, Taiwan - The Manila Economic & Cultural Office (MECO), and the Philippine Trade & Investment Center (PTIC) in Taipei, is bringing a select delegation of top-notch start-ups and community builders to represent the Philippine Start-Up Community and Ecosystem at the bigger and better Slingshot Philippines Pavilion at INNOVEX 2019.

“We are very excited to support the Slingshot Philippines Startup Ecosystem Pavilion and Delegation at INNOVEX this year, given that technology innovation cooperation is one of our priority industry collaboration areas with Taiwan,” said MECO Chairman and Resident Representative Angelito T. Banayo.

In cooperation with organizing partners, Export Marketing Bureau of the Philippine Department of Trade and Industry, and QBO Innovation Hub, the Philippine delegation will once again showcase the best of Philippine startup technologies and game-changing solutions for the world today. 

The 11 start-ups offer cutting-edge innovation in diverse, currently relevant fields such as Artificial Intelligence, Machine Learning, Geospatial Mapping, Innovative Housing Solutions, Cyber Security, Smart Advertising & eCommerce, Education, FinTech, Logistics, and Data Science-enabled Market Research.  

“We are proud to have an impactful participation and excellent representation this year composed of the high-innovation, talent, and creativity of the Philippine Start-Up community at Taiwan’s Innovex 2019, to showcase the diverse and cutting-edge solutions from our start-ups that aim to solve very current day-to-day problems, ” said DTI Trade Representative and MECO Director of Commercial Affairs Mr. Michael Alfred V. Ignacio. 

The participating start-ups were selected following a rigorous selection criteria from a list of applicants after a call to participation was announced to the Philippine start-up community.

Among the Philippine start-ups that will be represented by their founders are Antipara Exploration, Container Living Philippines, Cryptors, Gypsy, Investagrams, JazzyPay, Mober, Qikwire, Retailgate, Rumarocket, and Senti.  

Antipara Exploration offers automated-data analyses in their sub-sub-marine geospatial mapping technologies for the maritime industry and marine environmental mapping.  This is a home-grown technology with many important applications.

Container Living Philippines offers a modular-construction approach to offer modern housing solutions using shipping containers that are disaster-resilient and highly customizable to the client’s needs.

Cryptors offers a free mobile app that can detect and block hackers preying on free public-wifi platforms.   They also revolutionized cybersecurity training, making them available at very low rates compared to prohibitive market service fees.

Gypsy is a Philippine advertising technology platform, that offers advertisers, not only the market reach, but valuable data-gathering technologies and hyper-targeting solutions to effectively launch campaigns via proprietary-apps installed in tablets in ride-hailing services and public transportation alternatives.  

Mober offers a mobile platform to easily find and book location-based, on-demand tailor-fit trucking and moving solutions for businesses and individuals, similar to how ride-hailing solutions do their businesses. 

Three FinTech companies are also joining the Philippine delegation, namely investagrams, JazzyPay and Qwikwire.

Investagrams is a one-stop-shop platform that offers beginners guides and tips for individuals who want to invest in the stock market.  Investagrams offers monitoring of hundreds of stocks realtime and the ability for users to engage on virtual trading transactions.  

JazzyPay is a Philippine payment platform that offers efficient billing solutions for businesses from any part of the world, to bill their clientele.   JazzyPay offers their services via their proprietary app, email, SMS or other messaging platforms.

Qwikwire offers advanced business solutions such as Skas Property Management services, SAP-integrated billing and invoicing systems, cross-border settlements via their own proprietary blockchain powered multi-listing engine.   Qwikwire also offers a niche service catered to provide comprehensive real estate solutions for brokers and property developers.

Among the Philippine start-ups offering Artificial Intelligence innovation applications are Retailgate, Rumarocket, and Senti. 

Retailgate uses its AI-powered solutions to help retailers gain competitive market intelligence through retail analytics.   Employing artificial intelligence, they offer their platform to empower brick-and-mortar stores by providing access to AI-analyzed market information on customer traffic and dwell time, forecast demand levels, assess marketing effectivity and determine conversion rates.

Rumarocket developed its own AI-enabled algorithm that offers HR analytics and machine learning solutions for talent recruitment, management, and retention for enterprises and companies in their HR and Recruitment functions. Rumarocket’s solutions are aimed at ensuring a meaningful impact on clients’ bottom line and strategic HR management.

Senti Techlabs offers its proprietary artificial intelligence-powered solutions to businesses for market and audience sentiment data collection and analyses, using natural language processing and machine-learning processes. 

This year, and in addition to QBO Innovation Hub, another incubator-accelerator, Spring Valley Technology and Innovation Hub, located in Roxas City will join the Philippine delegation at Innovex.  

Spring Valley Technology and Innovation were created as a home for innovation and technology development both for local and international start-ups and technology developers in central Philippines. Spring Valley also partnered with the Province of Capiz and the Department of Trade and Industry to create Capiz’s Fablab and Innovation Center.   

This year’s Philippine delegation to Innovex is a close cooperation and partnership of the MECO Philippine Trade and Investment Center in Taipei with the DTI Export Marketing Bureau and QBO Innovation Hub.