Mindanao TECH PLANTER 2025
Discovering and nurturing Real Tech seedsand entrepreneurs in the Mindanao Island of the Philippines!
- Purpose
- Mindanao TECH PLANTER 2025 Demo Day is a pitching competition joined exclusively by innovative teams of Mindanao-based researchers and/or deep technology startups with a passion to bring change and impact to the Island Region and to the World. However, the pitching competition itself is just one aspect of the whole initiative, as Leave a Nest also pushes the collaboration between ventures and big companies to create new businesses after the Demo Day.
The TECH PLANTER program has been running in Japan since 2014. Despite the national TECH PLANTER in the Philippines being on its 9th annual implementation this 2025, the Mindanao TECH PLANTER 2025 program stands on its inaugural program implementation this 2025! - Target
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- Pre-startup researchers in the different science and technology fields, even if they only have the idea so far.
- Early stage startups, research teams or individuals in real tech field.
- Mature startups or SMEs seeking collaborators, even if they are close to mass production or PMF establishment.
- Visionaries that aim to change the world and/or their own country to a better place using science- and technology-based seeds.
- Those who are interested in the Japanese market or collaboration with Japanese corporations.
- Categories of the TECH
- Bio, Eco, Med, Food, Agri, Marine, Deep
- Application Period
- 2024/4/2(Tue)-2024/5/17(Fri)
- Judging Criteria
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A panel of judges consisting of Leave a Nest and its program partners will evaluate each of the following items.
- 01NOVELTY
- 02PRACTICABILITY
- 03IMPACT TO
THE WORLD - 04PASSION
- Awards
- Grand Winner: Php 30,000
Leave a Nest Award
and more Corporate Awards (monetary and non-monetary)
*Monetary amount will be announced
- 4/2[WED]
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Entry open
Please register from here and fill out the web form to apply.
We also hold Physical and Virtual Information Sessions at each university partner, consortium or occasionally on an individual-basis to encourage your full registration to tell you how to prepare documents. Please feel free to contact us for more information.
- 5/17[SAT]
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Application Deadline & 1st Selection
After our closing the application window, a selection committee consisting of Leave a Nest and its partners will review the applications.
Applicants will be asked to submit information about their team, technology, passion, and future vision via web form. All applicants will be notified of the results of the screening process and will receive feedback on their applications.
In addition, online individual interviews will be held for those who wish to participate in the presentation review.
- 6/13[FRI]
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Announcement of Finalists
Selected Finalists will be announced in the middle of June.
For applicants who pass the selection, multiple interviews will be held with the selected Finalists to prepar their pitch presentations for the final DEMO DAY Pitch Event.In addition, it is possible to set up interviews with partner companies for the purpose of business consultation and to develop collaboration projects after the DEMO DAY event
- 7/19[SAT]
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Mindanao TECH PLANTER 2025 DEMO DAY
The 9 Finalist teams and selected teams that passed our selection and undergone our interview sessions will be judged on their presentations during the on-site DEMO DAY event by the invited panel of judges and partners
- Aug-
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Post-Demo Day Supporting Period
Even after the DEMO DAY, the contact point between teams and Leave a Nest remains open, allowing discussions to develop their business.
We are responding to a wide range of start-up issues, from incorporation to prototype development, financing, and R&D. In addition, collaboration between teams and partner companies is becoming more popular in this period to support business development, regardless if within the country or inter-country partnerships and collaboration.
- ASSET01Leave a Nest Communicator
- ASSET02Japanese Partner Companies
- ASSET03Local Partners
- ASSET04
- SUPPORT01Organizing the vision your business
- SUPPORT02Brushing up your Presentation
- SUPPORT03Opportunities for collaboration with Japanese corporates
- SUPPORT04Support for R&D and Prototype Development
- SUPPORT05Support for Knowledge and IP Strategies
- SUPPORT06Investment and Support for Finance
- Name of the DEMO DAY
- Mindanao TECH PLANTER 2025
- Place
- Garden Oases Convention Center, The Ritz Hotel at Garden Oases, Porras St, Cor Ignacio Villamor St, Barrio Obrero, Davao City
- Date & Time
- 2024/7/19 (Fri)13:00-18:00 in Philippine Time
- Application Period
- 2024/4/2(Tue)-2024/5/17(Fri)
- Eligible Participants
- Invited Mindanao-based Deep Tech Startups and Research Teams
- Organizer
- Leave a Nest Philippines
- Timeline
@Philippine Time -
- 12:30~13:00
- Registration
- 13:00~13:25
- Opening Ceremony
- 13:25~16:20
- Finalist Pitching Presentations
- 16:20~16:50
- Lightning Talk Presentations (Closed-Door Judge Deliberations ongoing)
- 16:50~17:20
- Poster Session
- 17:20~18:00
- Awarding Ceremony & Official Photo Session
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- Capilli Trading Inc.
- Zuein Guantero (Co-Founder & Chief Operations Officer)
Theme:
Upcycling human waste hair waste into felted technology mainly for oil/chemical spills and other industries -
- FiberForms Creatives Co.
- Julienne Stephanie Fabie Agapin (Founder)
Theme:
Cacaban Leather - Developing plant-based bioleather from agricultural byproducts -
- Greenewables
- Mr. Erickson Tacda (Chief Operations Officer)
Theme:
Converting agricultural biomass waste into low-emission bio-briquettes -
- Shiftech Marine
- Engr. Diogenes Pascua
Theme:
Sustainable, affordable, and marine-grade battery packs for fisherfolks -
- QE-Dyn Research and Development on Engineering
- Joel Gallardo Paramo (Founder)
Theme:
Development of an environmentally-sustainable and reliable energy device that addresses the intermittency of current solar PV and BESS systems -
- Mustard Industrial Sales Corp.
- Mr. Julius C. Llera (President)
Theme:
Durabrick - a high-strength, high insulation and eco-friendly alternative brick to improve the Philippine brick & construction industry -
- Waste4Good Technologies
- Engr. Lorilyn Pablo-Daquioag (Chief Executive Officer)
Theme:
AI-driven solutions for agricultural waste and farm management -
- BrewTab
- Mr. Jose Amado Torreda
Theme:
Sustainable and convenient coffee tabs reducing plastic waste -
- Pic-A-Talk
- Ms. Uma Louise Roa (Chief Executive Officer)
Theme:
Empowering communication for children with speech disorders

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