This article was written in collaboration with Taxumo, the country’s leading online tax compliance tool– helping freelancers, self-employed professionals, small business owners, and corporations file and pay for their taxes from wherever, whenever. Ask any startup owner, and they’ll tell you that turning their startup idea into reality didn’t feel like a sprint, but rather,  a marathon.  Even by taking things one day at a time, there are a myriad of execution risks when growing

1Export, a tech-enabled exporting company based in the Philippines, has raised a $820,000 or nearly PHP41 million seed round to scale their technology and expand to Indonesia. The funding was led by Foxmont Capital Partners—a Philippine venture capital that invests in Filipino-focused or Filipino-founded early stage technology startups—and included participation from Manila Angel Investors Network, Iterative, IdeaSpace Foundation, and other angel investors. With the new investments, 1Export aims to develop and improve its financing processes,

With tax season fast approaching, two startups from different spaces came together to assist healthcare professionals who have worked harder than ever during the pandemic. Taxumo, a graduate of IdeaSpace Batch 4, is an end-to-end online tax assistance platform that announced its partnership with home health care super app AIDE to provide its services to their thousands of medical professionals.  According to Taxumo CEO EJ Arboleda, they will be able to enjoy the ease and

MANILA, PHILIPPINES―Startup support organization IdeaSpace is closing its 2020 acceleration program with investments in three startups―agritech startup Agro-Digital PH, sustainability and circular living startup Humble, and workplace tech startup Workbean. The accelerator is investing Php1 million each in these three startups. “These three teams have shown tremendous growth throughout the acceleration program. They address urgent and emerging problems while creating new opportunities for industries,” shared IdeaSpace President Butch Meily.  Agro-Digital PH aims to build a