Empleo is a social enterprise that matches disenfranchised jobseekers to blue- and grey-collar employment through analytics.
- Engineered, launched, and improved the web application; outlined product strategy and set best practices for product growth.
- Facilitated recruitment of 35,000+ jobseekers and enrolment of 40,000+ trade-work aspirants in partnership with 600+ training centers and recruitment firms; managed a total of 45 part-time and full-time team members in the entire time the enterprise was in operation.
- Secured PHP15M in funding and $80k grant from Facebook
- Awards: Best Social Impact by the ASEAN Ricebowl Awards and Top 5 ASEAN Impact: Scale Category in 2017
- 2019 Taiwan IDEAS 2018 (Startup Exhibit): 1 of the 2 government-appointed startups to represent the country.
- 2019 United States Department of Peace's PeaceTech Accelerator: Chosen to take part in the 2019 Spring cohort.
- 2018 Techtonic Ring of Fire SEA Startup Competition: 1 of the Top 20 teams. Selected from a pool of 100+ teams.
- 2018 ImpactXL Regional Workshop in Myanmar: 1 of the 10 chosen participants from 300+ applicants.
- 2017 ASEAN Ricebowl Awards: Hailed winner of the Best Social Impact Award in the Philippines.
- 2017 ASEAN Summit in the Philippines: Recognized as 1 of the 5 most impactful Scale stage startups in the country.
- 2017 Techmatch Invitational Pitch in Suntec, Malaysia: 1 of the 20 regional invites by Silicon Valley's Market Access and Sunway City's iLabs of Malaysia.
- 2015 YE! Community Startup Competition: Recognized as 1 of the Top 10 enterprises in the YE! Community Startup Competition. The team subsequently represented the Philippines in the 2015 YE! Summit for frontier-markets founders in the Netherlands. Selected from a pool of 450+ locally and 1,500+ globally.
- 2015 Echelon Top 100: Part of the 8 selected from 300 entries to pitch in Singapore.
- 2015 Esquire Financing Business Model Competition: 1 of the 10 national finalists. Selected from a pool of 100 companies.
- 2015 Tech in Asia Startup Invitationals: 1 of the 5 handpicked startups to present in an exclusive investor pitch event.