Four Philippine-based startups were able to showcase their businesses to a global audience at this year’s Collision Tech Conference held in Toronto, Canada.
The startup delegates, which received support from Startup Village Philippines and DMZ Toronto, pitched their innovations and connected with Canadian partners during the four-day event, which ran from June 17 to 20.
The event, considered one of the world’s largest tech gatherings, attracted over 40,000 attendees.
The four startups that participated in the event are property tech company REVAstaff, HRtech startup Remotify, speech therapy support app for children with autism and speech delay Mylo Speech Buddy, and healthtech firm uHoo.
“I opened up about the demographic dividend in the Philippines and why it is good to outsource to the country. Hopefully, this would bring us a lot of customers and a lot of investment to be able to grow and make meaningful remote jobs for Filipinos,” said Remotify founder and CEO Maria Sucgang told ABS-CBN’s TFC channel.
A notable achievement for one of the Philippine delegates, REVAstaff, was the signing of a partnership deal with a Toronto real estate broker at the Collision conference.
“Thanks to the Trade Commissioner Service of Canada, we were able to meet with key players in the ecosystem,” Calimon said.
StartUp Village is an incubator/ accelerator that enables startups to bring their unique ideas and business concepts to reality.
With the participation of the four Philippine startups at the Toronto event, Startup Village hopes that more will join their future cohorts aiming to find the next Filipino unicorn and elevate the Philippines on the global tech map.
The development comes as the Philippine trade department reported that in the past three years, the value of the Manila startup ecosystem has grown to over $6.4 billion.