Block Dojo: Empowering Philippines startups for future growth [Video]

The Philippines’ startup scene has been growing since 2020. In fact, according to StartupBlink, the nation is ranked sixth as the best country for startups in Southeast Asia and 60th worldwide. In addition, the Philippines saw a rise in startup funding from $180 million in 2020 to $863.7 million in 2021.

However, according to the Department of Information and Communications Technology’s (DICT) Undersecretary for e-government, David Almirol, and National Development Company’s Saturnino Mejia, the Southeast Asian country is still developing its startup scene, but this may change as more venture builders enter the tech startup space.

Government’s role in the PH startup ecosystem

“There’s a lot of very good ecosystem founded startup play in the Philippines, but we need more believers to our own highly intellectual startups,” Usec. Almirol told CoinGeek reporter Claire Celdran on the sidelines of Block Dojo Philippines’ Cohort …