9 Philippine-based start-ups that made it to YC

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Y Combinator, one of the most well-known start-up accelerators, has been behind disruptive start-ups like Airbnb, Coinbase, DoorDash, Reddit and Twitch.

It was founded in 2005 and has launched over 4,000 companies. Despite that, only 9 startups from the Philippines have made it. Here are the start-ups that got into YC!

1. MadEats (YC S21)

   • Industry: E-commerce

   • Founded: 2020

   • Founders: Mike Villareal, Keisha Lao, Andie Cruz

What does it do: an online delivery-only restaurant group in the Philippines, building affordable, high margin food brands by using its own ghost kitchens

2. Dashlabs.ai (YC W21)

   • Industry: Digital health

   • Founded: 2020

   • Founders: Bryan Giger, Martin Gomez, Weston Lim

What does it do: provides DIY lab software. They focus on small and mid-sized labs in emerging markets that still do manual processes, and don’t have access to good lab software

3. Avion School (YC W21)

   • Industry: EdTech

   • Founded: 2020

   • Founders: Victor Rivera, John Young

What does it do: an online school that teaches Filipinos to become remote software engineers globally for a share of their future income

4. NextPay (YC W21)

   • Industry: FinTech

   • Founded: 2019

   • Founders: Don Pansacola, Aldrich Tan

What does it do: a digital bank for small businesses and entrepreneurs; used to send invoices, collect payments, do payroll, and pay their bills

5. Shipmates (YC S22)

   • Industry: PropTech

   • Founded: 2021

   • Founders: David Marquez, Josh Supan

What does it do: a shipping platform that enables online business owners to book on-demand and standard orders using multiple couriers

6. Uwi (YC S22)

   • Industry: PropTech

   • Founded: 2022

   • Founders: Joseph Tan, Emmanuel Rodriguez

What does it do: home-lending-as-a-service for Southeast Asia; enabling any bank and NFBI to launch its own home lending platform

7. Hive Health (YC S21)

   • Industry: TeleHealth

   • Founded: 2021

   • Founders: Camille Ang, Jiawen Tang

What does it do: provides all-in-one health plans and access to the top healthcare providers

8. Paymongo (YC S19)

   • Industry: FinTech

   • Founded: 2019

   • Founders: Francis Plaza, Jaime Hing

What does it do: builds products and tools that enable thousands of individuals and businesses in the Philippines to make and receive payments over the Internet

9. Kalibrr (YC W13)

   • Industry: Recruiting

   • Founded: 2013

   • Founders: Paul Rivera, Dexter Gordon, Danny Castonguay

What does it do: a place where you can recruit and build remote sales, product, engineering or design team in the Philippines within minutes

👋 I am Chezka, an emerging-tech enthusiast, startup builder (2x), and bootstrapping this project when I'm not studying for my Financial Economics degree.

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