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Philippines

Asia · Pop. 115.8M · #48 startup ecosystem by EV

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$14.3B+55%
Combined startup EV
$138.8M
VC invested (last 12mo)
416
Tracked startups
#66/ 67
Unicorns per 1M people · world rank
🦄 Unicorns
3
3 live · +0 new in 2025 (incl. 0 new decacorns)
💎 Decacorns
0
🐎 Thoroughbreds
2
Top 1% growth · $500M+

Enterprise value · 2015–2025

Philippines grew 56.5× since 2015

Combined enterprise value of every tracked startup headquartered in Philippines that's still operating today — public and private companies combined, totalled by founding-year cohort.

0 $5B $10B $15B $20B Philippines · $14.3B 2015 2018 2021 2024 2025

Adjacent ecosystems by EV

Startup hubs

Inside Philippines: top 1 startup hubs

Sub-national ecosystems ranked by combined enterprise value, paired with their 5-year growth multiplier.

By enterprise value
1 Manila $14B
By 5-yr EV growth
1 Manila 9.1×

Startup funnel

Philippines's power-law funnel

From the first cheque written to a $10B+ outcome. Each arrow shows what fraction of companies at one stage graduate to the next, tracked by founding cohort.

Pre-Seed
91
Seed
63
Series A
36
Series B
13
Series C
12
Unicorn
2

* C→Unicorn and Unicorn→Decacorn rates are derived from current counts (no founding-cohort data); the four mid-funnel rates use Dealroom's cohort tracking.

Notable companies

Top private companies in Philippines

Up to 20 names per tier from Dealroom's tracked dataset. Decacorns are valued $10B+, unicorns $1B+, thoroughbreds have crossed $100M in revenue.

Unicorns $1B+ valuation 2
Revolution PrecraftedPayMaya
Thoroughbreds+ $100M+ revenue 1
PayMaya

Academia

Philippines's academic flywheel

Companies founded by university alumni or spun out of research, plus the institutions producing the most founders tied to Philippines.

University-linked startup formation
5
University spinouts
88
Total alumni-founded companies
53
Of which startups (<$15M raised)
28
Breakouts ($15M-100M)
7
Scaleups ($100M+)

Vs. similarly-sized ecosystems

How Philippines stacks up

Peers chosen from the same Asia cluster within ±70% of Philippines's combined EV. The scatter plots growth × current size for the wider continent — outliers in the upper-right are ecosystems compounding fastest.

Combined enterprise value
$34.3B
$33.6B
$21.2B
Philippines
$14.3B
$13.7B
$13.3B
$12.3B
$6.1B
EV growth (5-yr ×) vs current EV
peer median 9.0× 3.2× 172.9× 342.6× $12.3B $267B $5.8T EV growth (5yr ×) Combined enterprise value (log) China India Israel South Korea Singapore Japan Philippines

Top overview

Asia ecosystems — combined view

Top ecosystems in Asia ranked by combined EV. Philippines's row is highlighted.

# Ecosystem Combined EV 5-yr EV growth Unicorns VC invested Tracked startups
1 China $5.8T 3.2× 479 $33.4B 24.5K
2 India $884B 7.1× 125 $13.9B 13.3K
3 Israel $600B 5.6× 128 $10.7B 4,762
4 South Korea $439B 15.6× 41 $8.2B 7,931
5 Singapore $359B 9.6× 38 $3.3B 3,900
6 Japan $255B 6.4× 19 $4.3B 7,794
7 Hong Kong $186B 13.0× 21 $3.6B 1,222
8 United Arab Emirates $79.1B 10.6× 21 $3.9B 1,553
9 Indonesia $64.8B 5.0× 12 $485.3M 1,208
10 Taiwan $59.4B 7.9× 5 $209.1M 621
11 Türkiye $55.7B 20.7× 8 $714.3M 2,031
15 Philippines $14.3B 9.0× 3 $138.8M 416

Patent intelligence

Philippines startup IP portfolio: 256 patent families

Granted patent families assigned to startups headquartered in Philippines. Aggregated across the country's hub-level filings — Bay Area, Boston, etc. roll up under the United States row, the same way Tokyo and Osaka roll up under Japan.

Granted patent families
256
Filed by tracked startups headquartered in the country.
2.21 patents per million residents · #54 globally
Top patenting hubs
1 Manila 256

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Sector breakdown
Where Philippines's unicorns concentrate
Fintech
AI / Enterprise SW
Health Tech
Biotech
Cybersecurity
Consumer
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Capital autonomy
Philippines's domestic vs foreign capital mix
% domestic VC by stage
Cross-border lead investors
Sovereign-fund participation
Foreign-LP exposure
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Recent momentum
Philippines's VC investment trajectory by stage
2024 vs 2025 by stage
Round-size trends
Stage-conversion deltas
Quarterly velocity
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Founder origins
Where Philippines's startup founders come from
By country of origin
Per capita
Top universities
Top alumni-factory companies
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AI talent
Top employers of AI talent in Philippines
Core AI roles
Frontier AI roles
YoY hiring growth
Senior + lead engineers
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Deal flow
Live deal flow & funding rounds in Philippines
New rounds last 30 days
Stage breakdown
Active investors
Round-size trends
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