DAVAO CITY, June 25 — After getting the grand prize winner in the competition at AngelHack Manila 2013, the developers of PageSnapp are preparing for their trip to Silicon Valley, California this September.
PageSnapp team is composed of Rolly Rulete, Marvin Consuegra, Raymond Delfin, Miro Galang and Jay Albano.
The group in an interview after the Kapehan sa Davao at SM City recently, said their main objection of developing the application is to help the business community of Davao and those from other parts of the world.
Four members of the team are employed with a startup company, Life Bit, whose owner was also a winner in an AngelHack competition years back. The other team member is from Pampanga.
But they said their employer at Life Bit did not prevented them from exploring thus they improved on their skills on program development and graphic works and competed in the event that was joined by 250 developers and gave them the opportunity to present their product to the global market. During the competition they were given 24 hours to do the coding and make the software work.
PageSnapp will join 31 other winners of the AngelHack Spring Global Challenge conducted in various cities in Asia Pacific, North America, South America, and Europe.
Davao ICT chair Eriberto Barriga, Jr. said PageSnapp together with the other winning teams will present their startups to investors and other related sectors during th Global Demo Day in Silicon Valley this September.
He said of the competing developers, 10 will be picked and be given booths at the TechCrunch Disrupt event in San Francisco from September 7 to 11, 2013.
"We are optimistic our Davao-Pampanga team will make it," he said.
Barriga said "their project could help a lot of small businesses and we are proud we have top notch developers who can compete globally".
He said they are looking at the 16 million local business pages worldwide and get a share of the pie, build their network and later go into commercializing their product.
He said AngelHack will introduce them to incubators and investors to help run their idea into a start-up which is part of their 5,000-dollar travel grant to Silicon Valley. (PNA)
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