About Us

In 2011, the 1st ever Startup Weekend Manila gave birth to a nascent startup community that would nurture a new breed of Philippine entrepreneurs eager to build and launch tech-enabled ventures in the mold of the thriving startup hubs around the world.

Organized by Manila based agile software agency PROUDCLOUD, and telco giant GLOBE's New Business Group, the 3-day hackathon was designed to give would-be founders the experience of ideating, team-sourcing, and venture building over one intensive weekend. The goal was to catalyze the birth of tech-startups in Manila nd the rest of the country.

2 more Startup Weekends Manila were organized over the next 2 years, while Proudcloud and the Globe-NBG, now spun-off as KICKSTART VENTURES set out to create an acceleration platform that would fill the funding and guidance gap, now that enthusiastice founders were starting to emerge from the fledgling ecosystem.