Isabela Pushes Digital Transformation to Create Jobs, Innovation, and Stronger Local Industries
Aug 27, 2026
Founders Live Manila 2026 Opens the Stage to Filipino Startup Founders
Aug 26, 2026
40+ Baguio MSMEs Move From Ideas to Prototypes Through Green Innovation Workshop Co-Organized by SIGLAT and DTI Baguio-Benguet
Aug 26, 2026
Ilocos Norte Invests in Entrepreneurs and Youth to Build a More Self-Reliant Local Economy
Aug 25, 2026
Baguio Expands Segregated Waste Collection Across Six Pilot Barangays, Opening Opportunities for Circular Innovation
Aug 24, 2026
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An open directory of startups, programs, and organizations across Northern Luzon. Updated by the community.
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8
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11
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6
Communities
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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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40+ Baguio MSMEs Move From Ideas to Prototypes Through Green Innovation Workshop Co-Organized by SIGLAT and DTI Baguio-Benguet
More than 40 Baguio MSMEs advanced their product development journey during Day 2 of the Design Thinking for MSME Green Economy Transition and Product Development Workshop, working on business models, sustainable product concepts, and prototypes as they prepare for the next stage of development.
Ilocos Norte Invests in Entrepreneurs and Youth to Build a More Self-Reliant Local Economy
Ilocos Norte is strengthening its local economy by investing in entrepreneurs, youth skills, employment, and social protection. With enterprise support, incubation programs, digital training, financial assistance, and new innovation infrastructure, the province is building pathways for local businesses and young people to become more competitive and economically self-reliant.
Baguio Expands Segregated Waste Collection Across Six Pilot Barangays, Opening Opportunities for Circular Innovation
Baguio City is expanding its segregated waste collection system to six pilot barangays, introducing separate collection schedules for biodegradable, recyclable, and residual waste. Beyond improving waste management, the initiative creates opportunities for entrepreneurs, innovators, and communities to develop solutions around recycling, circular economy, logistics, and waste data.
UC Make-a-Thon 2026 Turns Student Ideas Into Potential Solutions and Future Ventures
The University of the Cordilleras’ Make-a-Thon 2026 brought together 11 teams during Research and Innovation Week, giving students a platform to develop ideas, practice entrepreneurial thinking, and explore how concepts can move closer to real-world application.
SILLAG Region 1 Strengthens Startup Mentors Through Problem Identification and Idea Validation Training
The first leg of the SILLAG Region 1 Startup Consortium Mentors’ Training brought together 51 mentors, coaches, and startup ecosystem enablers from La Union and Pangasinan to strengthen their ability to guide technology-based startups in identifying meaningful problems, validating ideas, and developing ventures toward investment readiness.
Nueva Vizcaya Strengthens Coffee Industry Through New Provincial Development Ordinance
Nueva Vizcaya has established a new policy framework for developing its coffee industry, covering production, processing, market development, research, innovation, and enterprise support. The ordinance also creates a multi-sectoral council tasked with coordinating efforts to strengthen the province’s coffee value chain.
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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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