by Adriel Nisperos
PhilDev, together with the United Nations Development Programme and the Australian Embassy in the Philippines through the Innovation for Social Impact Partnership (ISIP) project, onboarded another batch of impact-driven enterprises in the Social Impact Accelerator last March 17, 2021.
Seven startup enterprises will be joining the Social Impact Accelerator and receive intensive support from the program. The accelerator aims to capacitate enterprises, prepare them to absorb investments, and enable them to scale up their business and social impact.
“At PhilDev, we believe entrepreneurship is a vital pillar in enabling Filipinos to succeed and help alleviate poverty in our country,” Rebecca Pio de Roda, PhilDev Officer-in-Charge, shared.
The Social Impact Accelerator’s intensive support is composed of various learning sessions tailored to address the needs of the enterprises; a mentor-matching program connecting the entrepreneurs to leading experts and entrepreneurs from the combined network of PhilDev, UNDP Philippines, and the Australian Embassy in the Philippines; and a demo day providing the entrepreneurs an access to a network of investors, creditors, and funders to help them scale up and sustain their businesses financially.
Social Impact Accelerator Batch 3 Enterprises
Meet the seven impact-driven enterprises receiving support from the Social Impact Accelerator program:
Agro-DigitalPH
Agro-DigitalPH is a digital platform for business-to-business transactions. It aims to raise farmers’ incomes through an end-to-end sustainable value chain solution by aggregating demand from institutional buyers. It aims to consolidate production activities of smallholder farmers, usually organized as cooperatives or associations, to realize economies of scale — and consequently, to generate better incomes for producers and consistent quality for consumers.
Facebook: Agro-DigitalPH
Website: www.agro-digitalph.com
Mayani
Mayani is an agri-tech startup that uses a digital platform to connect local organic farmers with buyers (retail and commercial). It coordinates and organizes farming communities to consolidate the produce for selling to institutional partners through their online marketplace.
Facebook: Mayani
Website: www.mayani.ph
Nature Link
Nature Link exports various food items that are sold to South Korea and China. It has partner farming communities in Bulacan and Tarlac from which they source farmers’ produce at fair prices.
Facebook: ORGA – Nature Link
Orange Hub
OrangeHub provides virtual assistance services for micro, small and medium businesses, coaches, and entrepreneurs through Filipino talent training, and job matching with various local and international clients. During the pandemic, OrangeHub started training displaced OFWs and Filipinos on digital skills to kick start their online job journey.
Facebook: Orange Hub
Website: www.orangehub.ph
Panublix
Panublix is a tech-style platform and marketplace that aims to connect Philippine weavers, textile producers, and garment-makers to the global fashion and design market. It provides a platform which enables stakeholders to engage in collaborative design, production, and commerce by providing weavers and garment-makers market access to designers and corporate buyers (B2B), and by providing an e-commerce site wherein partners can directly sell their products to consumers (B2C).
Facebook: Panublix
Website: www.panublix.com
Roots Collective
The Roots Collective is a one-stop shop for social, local, and community-based products in the Philippines. Created in response to the need for startup local and social entrepreneurs to have a physical and social community, it implements a tripartite program of capacity-building, funding facilitation, and market access.
Facebook: Roots Collective
Website: www.rootscollective.ph
If you’re interested to learn more about these impact-driven enterprises and support their business, visit the Innovation for Social Impact Partnership (ISIP) website at www.isip-ph.com
