UPLB TTBDO Invites Aspiring Founders to Startup 101 Webinar on the Philippine Startup Ecosystem
Jul 13, 2026
DOST Turns Apayao’s Wild Grass Into a New Livelihood Opportunity Through Science and Innovation
Jul 9, 2026
ALIGWAS TBI Concludes Three-Day Bootcamp to Help Eight Food Startups Build Market-Ready Ventures
Jul 9, 2026
DOST Ilocos Norte Launches Innovation Hub to Advance Circular Economy and Smart Agriculture
Jul 8, 2026
DTI Ilocos Norte Launches Shared Service Facility to Help MSMEs Improve Packaging and Reach Bigger Markets
Jul 7, 2026
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Innovation Ecosystem
An open directory of startups, programs, and organizations across Northern Luzon. Updated by the community.
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Startups
Active builders
10
Universities & HEIs
Knowledge institutions
8
Programs & TBIs
Incubators & accelerators
11
Government Agencies
Public sector partners
6
Communities
Groups & networks
BadgerMint
EdTech
Pangasinan
Vidad Food Processing
Agriculture & Food Innovation
Banna, Ilocos Norte
Disenyo Digitals
Creative Industries & Digital Media
Baguio City
Runn
Gaming & Interactive Media
Baguio City
Alam Mo Ba Baguio
Creative Industries & Digital Media
Baguio City
Abiakak
Creative Industries & Digital Media
Baguio City
ICT Industry Development - DICT Cordillera
Government
Baguio City
CIEERDeC
Community
La Trinidad
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ALIGWAS TBI Concludes Three-Day Bootcamp to Help Eight Food Startups Build Market-Ready Ventures
The BIYAHENG ALIGWAS TBI, BIYAHENG ASENSO bootcamp brought together eight startup incubatees from across the Ilocos Region to strengthen market validation, product development, financial sustainability, and technology adoption for food innovation.
DTI Ilocos Norte Launches Shared Service Facility to Help MSMEs Improve Packaging and Reach Bigger Markets
A new ₱565,000 Shared Service Facility in Paoay gives Ilocos Norte MSMEs access to packaging, branding, and promotional equipment, helping local products compete in larger regional and national markets.
SILLAG Region 1 Prepares Startups to Compete for DOST-PCIEERD Funding Through Startup Grant Fund Bootcamp
Sixty-five participants representing 29 startup teams joined the SGF Bootstart on July 2, equipping founders with the knowledge to develop stronger R&D proposals and compete for government innovation funding.
San Fernando City Opens Innovation Hub to Support Creatives and Strengthen Local MSMEs
The CREATE Your San Fernando eLyU UNSDG Innovation Center provides artists, creative professionals, and entrepreneurs with shared spaces for collaboration, content creation, and business development, while the reopening of the La Union Trade Center expands market access for 26 local MSMEs.
Baguio City releases 2026 Research and Innovation Agenda and invites students and faculty to help build a livable, inclusive, creative city
The agenda names priority themes from environmental action to creative economy and smart city development, framing academic and innovation work as a pathway to Baguio’s 2043 vision.
Your cotton, abaca, and bamboo can now become Ilocos‑made yarn: inside Vintar’s Regional Yarn Production and Innovation Center
DOST–PTRI and DOST Ilocos Region’s micro‑scale yarn spinning technology at the Regional Yarn Production and Innovation Center in Vintar, Ilocos Norte turns locally sourced natural fibers into high‑quality yarn for weavers and MSMEs.
She Planted Cacao During the Pandemic With No Plan and No Guarantee. Five Years Later, She Left a 26-Year Corporate Career to Go All In.
Judy Oracion Baucas of Tsokolat OLY Food Products planted her first cacao trees during the uncertainty of the pandemic with nothing but land, time, and faith. Those trees are now the foundation of a tree-to-bar chocolate enterprise producing tablea, cacao tea, and unadulterated chocolate bars, and on June 1, 2026, she took early retirement after 26 years in corporate to build it full time.
Jun 13, 2026
Lou Beltran Is Building EV Charging Infrastructure in Baguio Before the Market Forces Anyone To. That Is Exactly the Point.
AddaVolt founder Lou Beltran turned his own frustration as an EV driver in Baguio into a capital-light charging network now operating across ten sites in Northern and Central Luzon, with 232 registered drivers, 35 partner organizations, triple DOE accreditation, and a provincial government pipeline that includes 200+ charging points supporting Pangasinan's ambulance electrification program.
Jun 8, 2026
She Built SPC Juice to Help Her Cousin. Her Cousin Did Not Live to See How Far It Has Come.
The founder of Vidad Food Processing, Darizel C. Vidad of Brgy. Binacag, Banna, Ilocos Norte, developed a sweet potato with calamansi juice from a college feasibility study, transforming it from a product with a 2-day shelf life to one with a 2-month shelf life at room temperature and up to 5 months when refrigerated, into an FDA-eLTO-approved food enterprise, and representing Region 1 at the National Young Farmers Challenge Season 5 in April 2026. The people who inspired her most did not make it to that stage, but she kept going anyway.
May 18, 2026
Destined to Hustle, Designed to Deliver. How Disenyo Digitals Is Closing the Creative Gap in Northern Luzon.
Jennifer Fuentes Castro of Destine Events and Disenyo Digitals started with a single creative gathering during a transition period after working overseas. What grew from it is a creative and digital solutions platform now working with LGUs, training young creatives, and building the kind of regional creative economy that Northern Luzon has always had the talent for but not always the infrastructure to support.
May 12, 2026
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From the Ecosystem
Community Contributions
Perspectives, lessons, and field insights from founders, students, researchers, and builders shaping innovation across Northern Luzon.
June 28, 2026
Before You Look for Investors, Look for Customers
Before founders raise capital, they need evidence that they are solving a real problem. This article explores the case for customer validation before fundraising, the strengths and limitations of bootstrapping, and how founders can choose the right type of capital at the right stage of their journey.
Leandro Gepila
Founder / Co-founder, Inv8 Studio
June 11, 2026
Why Innovation and Entrepreneurship Are Not the Same Thing
Most startup ecosystems treat innovation and entrepreneurship as the same thing. They are not. Innovation creates new value. Entrepreneurship captures and scales it. This piece breaks down the distinction with real examples and applies it directly to founders, MSMEs, and ecosystem builders in Northern Luzon. You do not need to invent something unprecedented to start building.
Leandro Gepila
Founder / Co-founder, Inv8 Studio
June 9, 2026
How to Start a Startup as a Student
I joined my first startup competition as a college student with no prototype, no revenue, and no real idea of what I was doing. What I had was a problem I cared about, a rough pitch, and enough nerve to submit an application. That decision shaped how I think about building startups far more than any classroom did. This is what I learned and what I wish someone had told me before I started.
Leandro Gepila
Founder / Co-founder, Inv8 Studio
June 6, 2026
What Is Innovation? (It Is Not Just Technology)
Most people think innovation means building an app. It does not. This piece redefines innovation using real examples from Northern Luzon, covers four types of innovation, and explains why the biggest opportunities in this region are coordination and distribution problems, not technology problems.
Leandro Gepila
Founder / Co-founder, Inv8 Studio