{"id":15557,"date":"2021-06-16T03:30:00","date_gmt":"2021-06-16T03:30:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/eodishasamachar.com\/en\/2021\/06\/16\/917ventures-creating-digital-lifelines-for-filipinos\/"},"modified":"2021-06-16T03:30:00","modified_gmt":"2021-06-16T03:30:00","slug":"917ventures-creating-digital-lifelines-for-filipinos","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eodishasamachar.com\/en\/2021\/06\/16\/917ventures-creating-digital-lifelines-for-filipinos\/","title":{"rendered":"917Ventures: Creating digital lifelines for Filipinos"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> \n<\/p>\n<div id=\"\"><!--<a class=\"format-txt\" href=\"{baseURL}\/View\/{release.id}?_download=1\">View this article in .txt format<\/a>--><\/p>\n<p>MANILA, PHILIPPINES &#8211; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.media-outreach.com\/\">Media OutReach<\/a> &#8211; 16 June 2021 &#8211; <a href=\"https:\/\/917ventures.com\/\">917Ventures<\/a>&#8216;&#13;<br \/>\ndigital innovations have enabled consumers and businesses to thrive and triumph&#13;<br \/>\nin today&#8217;s challenging environment. Companies like GCash, KonsultaMD,&#13;<br \/>\nHealthNow, RUSH, AdSpark, and PureGo have become the new lifelines for&#13;<br \/>\nFilipinos during this pandemic. <\/p>\n<p>&#13;<br \/>\n&#13; <\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center\"><img src=\"https:\/\/release.media-outreach.com\/release.php\/Images\/Thumb\/500x0\/156850\/917Ventures.jpeg#image-156850\" width=\"500\"\/><\/p>\n<p>&#13;<br \/>\n&#13; <\/p>\n<p>GCash helps its&#13;<br \/>\n40million users securely send money, pay for goods and services online, and&#13;<br \/>\nempowers small businesses to thrive through cashless solutions. GCash was also&#13;<br \/>\none of the channels used by the government to safely distribute financial&#13;<br \/>\nassistance to Filipinos through its Social Amelioration Program last year. <\/p>\n<p>&#13;<br \/>\n&#13; <\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>&#13;<br \/>\n&#13; <\/p>\n<p>Following its&#13;<br \/>\nmomentum in 2020, GCash continues to innovate and reinvent the Filipino way of&#13;<br \/>\nlife through easy access to financial services through: GLife &#8211; access to&#13;<br \/>\nmini-apps to shop, eat and play; GInvest &#8211; participate in high yielding&#13;<br \/>\ninvestments; GInsure &#8211; life and health insurance; GSave &#8211; get the best savings&#13;<br \/>\nrate in the country with no minimum balance required; and GCredit &#8211; the first&#13;<br \/>\ndigital credit model and mobile credit line in the Philippines. <\/p>\n<p>&#13;<br \/>\n&#13; <\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>&#13;<br \/>\n&#13; <\/p>\n<p>917Ventures offers&#13;<br \/>\nreliable healhtech platforms such as KonsultaMD and HealthNow. Consultations&#13;<br \/>\nmade through KonsultaMD skyrocketed by 461 percent in 2020 compared to the&#13;<br \/>\nprevious year. HealthNow, an app that has been downloaded over 240,000 times&#13;<br \/>\nsince August last year, offers easy access to healthcare services, which&#13;<br \/>\ninclude video consultation and medicine delivery.<\/p>\n<p>&#13;<br \/>\n&#13; <\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>&#13;<br \/>\n&#13; <\/p>\n<p>Complementing the&#13;<br \/>\ndoor-to-door delivery of medicines is PureGo&#8217;s platform for quick and easy&#13;<br \/>\ngrocery shopping, enabling customers easier access to home essentials. <\/p>\n<p>&#13;<br \/>\n&#13; <\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>&#13;<br \/>\n&#13; <\/p>\n<p>For&#13;<br \/>\nB2B markets, AdSpark and RUSH help accelerate the digital footprint of brands&#13;<br \/>\nthrough digital advertising solutions, customer engagement, and loyalty&#13;<br \/>\nprograms.\u00a0 <\/p>\n<p>&#13;<br \/>\n&#13; <\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>&#13;<br \/>\n&#13; <\/p>\n<p>AdSpark,&#13;<br \/>\nthrough its access to consumer intelligence, enables businesses to grow&#13;<br \/>\nthroughout their digital transformation journey. ThoughtSparkers, AdSpark&#8217;s&#13;<br \/>\nflagship whitepaper powered by AdSpark Intelligence, helps drive communication&#13;<br \/>\nstrategies by studying the Filipino psyche.<\/p>\n<p>&#13;<br \/>\n&#13; <\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>&#13;<br \/>\n&#13; <\/p>\n<p>RUSH&#13;<br \/>\noffers digital innovations around customer loyalty and retention through&#13;<br \/>\neasy-to-use programs to help businesses grow in the digital space. <\/p>\n<p>&#13;<br \/>\n&#13; <\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>&#13;<br \/>\n&#13; <\/p>\n<p>&#8220;We know how tough our battle against this pandemic is,&#13;<br \/>\nand we are all at risk, especially those who need to be physically present in&#13;<br \/>\ntheir jobs. So we continue to reinvent&#13;<br \/>\nlifestyle and movement through different products and services in the areas of&#13;<br \/>\nhealth, e-commerce, financial technology, and advertising technology that deliver indelible value to&#13;<br \/>\nconsumers and businesses,&#8221; said Vince Yamat, 917Ventures Managing Director. <\/p>\n<p>&#13;<br \/>\n&#13; <\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>&#13;<br \/>\n&#13; <\/p>\n<p>A subsidiary of Globe, 917Ventures has&#13;<br \/>\nhelped startups maximize Globe&#8217;s &#8216;Unfair Advantage&#8217; by leveraging Globe&#8217;s rich&#13;<br \/>\nasset base. Globe&#8217;s customer base of over 80 million, one million distribution&#13;<br \/>\npoints, 150,000 enterprise partners and massive networks and affiliates are&#13;<br \/>\nwhat startups can tap. Being a venture builder, the company constantly looks&#13;<br \/>\nfor new ideas to launch and accelerate to further improve Filipino lives. <\/p>\n<p>&#13;<br \/>\n&#13; <\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>&#13;<br \/>\n&#13; <\/p>\n<p>917Ventures is also part of Globe&#8217;s 5G&#13;<br \/>\nHackathon, providing mentorship to participants of the nationwide competition&#13;<br \/>\nwelcoming students and professionals to innovate and pitch their solutions to&#13;<br \/>\nhelp various aspects of the Philippine society. <\/p>\n<p>&#13;<br \/>\n&#13; <\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>&#13;<br \/>\n&#13; <\/p>\n<p>To know more about 917Ventures,&#13;<br \/>\nvisit <a href=\"https:\/\/917ventures.com\/\">https:\/\/917ventures.com\/<\/a>. <\/p>\n<p>#GlobeTelecom #917Ventures<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n\n<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.media-outreach.com\/news\/2021-06-16\/81830\/917ventures-creating-digital-lifelines-for-filipinos\">Source link <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>MANILA, PHILIPPINES &#8211; Media OutReach &#8211; 16 June 2021 &#8211; 917Ventures&#8216;&#13; digital innovations have enabled consumers and businesses to thrive and triumph&#13; in today&#8217;s challenging environment. 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