There is now one free website listing 303 Filipino startups and 108 investors
Gobi Partners, StartupHunt and BetterGov.PH put the Philippine startup scene on a single public page. Browsing is free, listing is free, and there is a jobs board attached.
Venture capital firm Gobi Partners, the directory StartupHunt, and the volunteer group BetterGov.PH have launched Startup Database Philippines, a free public list of Filipino startups, investors and the people building them. GizGuide reported the launch on August 11. The site is at startupdatabase.ph and it is open to anyone, no account needed to look around.
Checked this week, the directory listed 303 Filipino-built products and companies and 108 investors, a group that includes angel investors, venture capital firms and accelerators. There is a builders section with founder and developer profiles, a separate page for local companies working on AI, and a jobs board that showed 102 open roles. StartupHunt, which ran as its own directory before, now redirects into it.
What a startup directory actually is
Think of it as a phone book for companies that are still being built. Each entry says what the company does, who made it, and where to find it. Until now that information sat scattered across Facebook groups, LinkedIn posts, and PDF reports that go stale the month after they come out. The point of a directory is that it is one page, it is public, and it updates as people add to it.
Why it matters
The jobs board is the part most people can use today, because those 102 roles are at local tech companies rather than the usual overseas listings. Beyond that, it is the cheapest way to see what Filipinos are actually building, from an online store builder for small shops to a rice farm sensor system. Listing your own company costs nothing. The launch partners include Gobi Partners, BetterGov.PH and Startup Machine, alongside university incubators such as Ateneo BUILD, UPLB SIBOL, MSU-IIT iDEYA and DOST-BulSU BARAS.
The catch to watch
Everything on it is self-submitted, so it is a list of claims, not a vetted ranking. A company describing itself as an AI platform is the company talking, not a reviewer, and nobody there is checking revenue, funding or whether a product still works. The numbers move too. Three hundred and three is a real count for one afternoon, not a census of Philippine startups. Treat it as a starting point for looking someone up, not as proof that a company is legitimate.