Gobi-Core Philippines Fund

Finding a niche in the Philippines’ Iron Triangle

In this third part, we explore how much Covid-accelerated digitization boosted the country’s ‘Iron Triangle’ – e-commerce, logistics, and fintech – startups, and how the startup Davids are battling the Goliath super apps to carve out their own niches.

Philippine E-commerce enabler Etaily banks $4.3M round to drive regional expansion, O2O platform

Etaily, a fast-growing Philippines-based e-commerce-enabler led by former Zalora executives, announced today that it has wrapped up a $4.3 million seed extension round, on top of its initial $1.6 million funding round announced in August 2021.

Philippine tech ecosystem poised to grow further with more investments & gov support – report

Funds raised by startups in the Philippines during the first ten months of 2021 almost exceed the total amount funds raised from 2017 to 2020.