Impact Hub Manila is an impact-first venture builder focused on supporting purpose-driven entrepreneurs with ideas that will positively change the lives of Filipinos, and beyond. With the support of our global network, Impact Hub Manila aims to enable impactful ideas to start and scale globally.
We support start-ups, talents, corporations and organizations with a wide range of training programs, and consulting services, offering networking and membership. Over the years, we have run over 500 entrepreneurial programs and supported 500 enterprises that are creating impact.
We use the Global Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) as a lens through which to view our impact in the world. The United Nations Office in Geneva acknowledges Impact Hub as a driver of community engagement, helping not only to foster but also to extend the efforts directed to tackle the SDGs via entrepreneurial and innovative solutions.
Launched in 2019, the IMPACT2050 Program is the flagship program of Impact Hub Manila which aims to create large-scale economic progress through the activation of groundbreaking events and providing curated support for innovators. With the vision of catalyzing impactful digital solution, the IMPACT2050 is designed to decentralize access and opportunities to promote countryside development.
Hack the Challenge is a regional incubation program that is designed to source, select and support impactful ventures aimed at addressing the varied environmental issues the world is facing.
Fuckup Nights is a global movement and event series that shares stories of professional failure. Each month, in events across the globe, we get three to four people to get up in front of a room full of strangers to share their own professional fuckup. The stories of the business that crashes and burns, the partnership deal that goes sour, the product that has to be recalled, we tell them all.
INCUBATE is the incubation program provided by Impact Hub Manila to the top teams from the IMPACT HACKATHON 2019. The program aims to help these impact-driven solutions start and scale through dedicated mentoring and support.
The Resiliency Project is a series of online events that aims to support the community as it transitions into a new economy.
The Impact Hackathon is a 3-day virtual code fest that seeks to find the most innovative solution to address the challenge statements provided by our vertical partners.
MB Youth Talks, a collaboration with entrepreneurship network Impact Hub Manila, is a series of inspirational webinars for the Filipino youth, by the Filipino youth. Through it, Manila Bulletin Lifestyle gives the youth sector a platform for representation, as well as a safe space for interactions with each other along with mavericks and leaders from whom they can learn.
The Circular Innovation Jam seeks to develop innovative and inclusive solutions to advance local circular economies for plastics and effective waste management systems across South and Southeast Asia to reduce ocean plastic pollution. Rather than “jamming” with music, we are inviting participants to jam with us with their ideas and unique insights to solve ocean plastic pollution through this virtual design sprint.
The Generation Impact Fellowship is an entrepreneurship program designed for young innovators. It aims to support innovative ideas and create sustainable ventures that will contribute towards the achievement of the Sustainable Development Goals. (SDGs)
INCUBATE is the incubation program provided by Impact Hub Manila to the top teams from the IMPACT HACKATHON ONLINE 2020. The program aims to help these impact-driven solutions start and scale through dedicated mentoring and support.
Fuckup Nights is a global movement and event series that shares stories of professional failure. Each month, in events across the globe, we get three to four people to get up in front of a room full of strangers to share their own professional fuckup. The stories of the business that crashes and burns, the partnership deal that goes sour, the product that has to be recalled, we tell them all.
Impact Hub Manila believes that good governance could help drive all 17 United Nations Sustainable Development Goals (UN #SDGs). This is why last August 2020, Vote Pilipinas was launched. Vote Pilipinas is a non-partisan initiative that aims to provide accessible and verifiable information to increase the number of Filipino voters in the May 2022 elections. Vote Pilipinas is also the official voter information campaign of the Commission on Elections (COMELEC).
In support of ADB and AIM’s goal of supporting innovative solutions for a better normal, Impact Hub Manila enjoins the cause through the implementation of an incubation program.
This focused innovation support is designed to equip and enable impact-driven innovative entrepreneurs to refine and scale their ideas. The tailor-fit support program features intensive training, entrepreneurial coaching that includes technical assistance, access to funding and both local and regional stakeholder engagement that aims to support the winning teams refine their ideas and develop their pilot further.
The Alternative Delivery Systems in Communities Project is a 12-month innovative program that seeks to contribute to freeing the environment from plastic litter while catalyzing the prosperity of local communities. The project aims to shift existing community retail systems utilized by sari-sari stores to more feasible and sustainable alternative delivery systems. More specifically, this will be achieved through the reduction of plastic packaging of everyday goods.
Space for Ingenious (SFI) 2021 Wave 4 is a nationwide idea or pre-launch Startup Competition in search for the most impact-driven, innovative, and business oriented ideas from promising entrepreneurs or intrapreneurs. Impact Hub Manila’s proven curriculum is a 24-week blended virtual incubation and pre-accelerator Impact Masterclass Program combining coaching, mentorship, speakership from global industry business leaders for investment ready startups. KMC Solutions, the leading company provider of flexible offices in the Philippines will provide a winning environment and health protocol compliant workspace.
The SFI Program is dedicated to the growth of the Philippine StartUp Ecosystem.
The Accelerate Membership in partnership with Bank of America is a curated membership opportunity designed to support impact-driven entrepreneurs. Rolled out in 10 key cities in the Asia Pacific region, this innovative program aims to equip entrepreneurs with tailor-fit support in order to adapt to the new economy by providing members with access to resources from all over the world.
The Impact Hackathon is a 3-day virtual code fest that seeks to find the most innovative solution to address the challenge statements provided by our vertical partners.
Fuckup Nights is a global movement and event series that shares stories of professional failure. Each month, in events across the globe, we get three to four people to get up in front of a room full of strangers to share their own professional fuckup. The stories of the business that crashes and burns, the partnership deal that goes sour, the product that has to be recalled, we tell them all.
The campaign kickstarts Vote Pilipinas’ information drive to encourage everyone to go out and vote smartly in the May 9 elections. Vote Pilipinas is a non-partisan initiative that aims to provide accessible and verifiable information to increase the number of Filipino voters in the May 2022 elections.
The Impact Hackathon – Smart Sustainable Cities is a hybrid hackathon that ran virtually and on-site in the first smarter city in the Philippines – Cauayan, Isabela.
The Accelerate Regional Membership is a curated membership opportunity designed to support impact-driven entrepreneurs. This innovative membership aims to equip entrepreneurs with tailor-fit support in order to thrive in the new economy by providing members with access to resources from all over the world.
Meet our very own Hubbers, a roster of exemplary entrepreneurs who have successfully participated and completed an Impact Hub Manila program.
Impact Hub Fellowship in Innovation on Sustainable Energy Solutions in Agriculture, 2018
Asa Feinstein
CEO/Founder,
CocoAsenso
Accelerate Membership 2021
Ma. Leonelle de Leon-Sandoval
Evegrocer
Space for ingenious Program, 2018
Herbet Joei Bactong
CEO/Co-founder,
Burket
Accelerate Membership 2021
Noreen Bautista
Co-founder,
Panublix
GIF (Generation Impact Fellowship) 2020
Don Pansacola
Founder,
Nextpay
Our programs and events are supported by our partners.
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