Terms

The following Terms of Use (the “Terms“) govern the access and use by you of the applications, websites, content, products, and services (the “Services“) made available on https://ignitehouse.vc/ and all subpage under this main page, applications including https://iamiggy.app/ and https://restart.app/ collectively referred to in this document as “Site/Services” by Ignite 100 Ventures Holdings Corp. (“Ignite Founders Ventures”). 

Please read the following Terms carefully before accessing or using the Site/Services. By accessing you hereby agree to be bound to these Terms, which establish a contractual relationship (the “Contract”) between you and Ignite Founders Ventures. If you do not agree to these Terms, do not access the Site/Services. Ignite Founders Ventures will not be liable for any loss or damage arising from your failure to comply with these Terms. Ignite Founders Ventures reserves the right and sole discretion to modify these Terms at any time.

 

REPRESENTATION AND WARRANTIES

By accessing the Site/Services you acknowledge the following:

You represent and warrant that you are at least eighteen (18) years old and are capable of entering into binding contracts;

You represent and warrant that you have the authority and capacity to enter into this Contract, to avail of the Site/Services, and to abide by these Terms;

You will be solely responsible for any and all liability that results from, or is alleged as a result of your access/use of the Site/Services including, but not limited to personal injuries and property damages;

You have the legal right to delegate Ignite Founders Ventures, its agents, officers, employees or representatives (the “Personnel”), the authority to access, use and share all information provided by you under this Contract, and the Personnel are given the authority by you to make decisions on your behalf for purposes of providing the Services you have availed of; and

You will obey all local laws related to the matters set forth herein, and will be solely responsible for any violations of such local laws.

Further, as a precondition to your accessing and using  the Site/Services, you agree to the following:

Ignite Founders Ventures reserves the right to share or publish certain information about you in connection with the Site/Services you have availed of, under reasonable terms and conditions;

Ignite Founders Ventures reserves the right to offer its Site/Services free of charge, impose certain charges for certain Site/Services (the “Premium Services”), and/or impose charges in the event that it is deemed appropriate.

By purchasing any of the Premium Services offered by Ignite Founders Ventures, you agree to pay all applicable fees and taxes, and be bound to additional terms specific to the Premium Services. Failure to pay these fees, taxes, and abide by the additional terms will result in the immediate termination of your Premium Services.

You are responsible for all charges incurred in connection with your access of the Site and/or use of the Services (including, but not limited to, online subscriptions, application fees, etc.); and

Ignite Founders Ventures reserves the right to deny you access to the Site and/or use of its Services on reasonable grounds, based on its sole discretion.

Ignite Founders Ventures has the exclusive right and ownership over the Site and its Services, including all copyrights and other intellectual property rights in the Services and its contents.

Ignite Founders Ventures has the right and sole discretion to terminate the Site and/or Services at any time, for any reason.

 

ACCOUNT INFORMATION, PASSWORD AND SECURITY

You are responsible for maintaining the confidentiality of your password and account information, including all relevant information needed to access the Site and/or use the Services;

You are fully responsible for any and all activities that occur under your password or account;

You agree to:

Immediately notify Ignite Founders Ventures of any unauthorized use of your password or account or any other breach of security; and

Ensure that you exit from your account at the end of each session when accessing the Site/Services.

 

DISCLAIMER OF WARRANTY AND LIMITATION OF LIABILITY

Ignite Founders Ventures makes no warranty, express or implied, regarding the Services it offers. The use of the Site and its Services are offered on as “AS IS”, “AS AVAILABLE” basis without warranties of any kind, other than warranties that are incapable of exclusion, waiver or limitation under the laws applicable to these Terms. Without limiting the foregoing, Ignite Founders Ventures makes no warranty (1) as to the content, quality, or accuracy of data or information provided; (2) as to any service or product obtained; (3) that the Site or its Services will be completely safe, secure or error-free; (4) that the Site or its Services will function without disruptions, delays, or imperfections; or (5) that any particular result or information will be obtained.

Ignite Founders Ventures does not assume any responsibility for, and will not be liable for, any damages to, or any viruses, malware or other malicious, destructive or corrupting code, agent program or macros that may infect, your computer, telecommunication equipment or other property caused by or arising from your access to, or use of, the Site and/or the Services, or your downloading of any information or materials from the Site. Ignite Founders Ventures likewise does not assume any responsibility for, and will not be liable for, any damages or losses arising out of, related to, or resulting from any security breach, cyberattack or any other security intrusion on the Site.

To the extent permitted by law, Ignite Founders Ventures also DISCLAIM ALL WARRANTIES, WHETHER EXPRESS OR IMPLIED, INCLUDING THE IMPLIED WARRANTIES OF FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE, TITLE, AND NON-INFRINGEMENT. The liability of Ignite Founders Ventures shall be limited to the fullest extent permitted by applicable law, and under no circumstance will it be liable to you for any lost profits, revenues, information, or data, or consequential, special, indirect, exemplary, punitive, or incidental damages arising out of or related to these Terms or the use of the Site or Services.

Ignite Founders Ventures shall not be liable for any goods or services offered or provided on the Site or its Services. Ignite Founders Ventures does not give any warranty whatsoever in connection with its Services.

In the event that a claim is made or an action is filed by you against Ignite Founders Ventures, any of its directors, or Personnel, the aggregate liability of Ignite Founders Ventures its directors, or Personnel shall not in any event exceed Php1,000.00 or the amount of actual damages suffered and substantiated by you, whichever is lower.

 

INDEMNIFICATION

You agree to hold Ignite Founders Ventures and its Personnel free and harmless from any liability to any third party, and to indemnify Ignite Founders Ventures against all indirect, special, punitive, incidental, consequential or exemplary damages (including, without limitation, those resulting from loss of revenues, lost profits, loss of goodwill, loss of use, lost data, business interruption, or other intangible losses) incurred in connection with your use, inability to use, or the results of use of the Site and Services, any platforms linked to this platform, or the materials, information or services contained on any or all such platforms.

 

COPYRIGHT

Ignite Founders Ventures is, unless otherwise stated, the owner of all copyrights and other intellectual property rights in the Service and its contents. Individuals who have posted works on the Site are either the copyright owners of that work or are posting the work under license from a copyright owner or his or her agent or otherwise as permitted by law. You may not reproduce, distribute, publicly display or perform, or prepare derivative works based on any of the Content including any such works without the express, written consent of the appropriate owner of copyright in such works. Ignite Founders Ventures does not claim ownership rights in your works or other materials posted by you on the Site (“Your Content”). You agree not to distribute any part of the Service other than Your Content in any medium other than as permitted in these Terms or by use of functions on the Service provided by us. You agree not to alter or modify any part of the Service unless expressly permitted to do so by us or by use of functions on the Service provided by us.

You are responsible for all of the Content you upload, download, and otherwise copy, distribute and display using the Site or Services. You must have the legal right to copy, distribute and display all parts of any content that you upload, download and otherwise copy, distribute and display. Content provided to you by others, or made available through websites, magazines, books and other sources, are protected by copyright and should not be uploaded, downloaded, or otherwise copied, distributed or displayed without the consent of the copyright owner or as otherwise permitted by law.

Ignite Founders Ventures does not claim ownership rights in Your Content. You own the content you create and share on the Site or through the Services and nothing in these Terms takes away the rights you have to Your Content. For the sole purpose of enabling us to make Your Content available through the Site or Services, you grant to Ignite Founders Ventures a non-exclusive, transferable, sub-licensable, royalty-free, and worldwide license to host, use, modify, reproduce, distribute, re-format, store, translate, prepare derivative works based on, and publicly display and perform Your Content. You can end this license any time by deleting Your Content or account. Please note that when you upload Content, third parties will be able to copy, distribute and display Your Content using readily available tools on their computers for this purpose although other than by linking to Your Content on the Site any use by a third party of Your Content could violate these Terms unless the third party receives permission from you by license.

 

COPYRIGHT VIOLATIONS

Ignite Founders Ventures respects the intellectual property rights of others and expects users of the Site to do the same. At its discretion and in appropriate circumstances, Ignite Founders Ventures may remove Your Content submitted to the Site, terminate the accounts of users or prevent access to the Site by users who infringe the intellectual property rights of others. If you believe the copyright in your work or in the work for which you act as an agent has been infringed through this Service, please contact Ignite Founders Ventures for notice of claims of copyright infringement, at the details below.

 

NON-WAIVER OF RIGHTS

Failure, omission or delay on the part of Ignite Founders Ventures to exercise its rights or remedies under these Terms shall not operate as a waiver of rights.

 

SEPARABILITY

If any clause or part of a clause of these Terms shall be, or be found by any authority or court of competent jurisdiction to be, invalid or unenforceable, such invalidity or unenforceability shall not affect the other clauses or parts of such clauses of these Terms, all of which shall remain in full force and effect.

 

GOVERNING LAW AND VENUE

These Terms shall be governed by the laws of the Republic of the Philippines and in the event of any suit arising from or in connection with these Terms, the appropriate court in Makati City shall have exclusive jurisdiction over the case to the exclusion of all other courts.

 

CONTACT US:

If you have any concerns or questions, feel free to contact us at [email protected]

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Old School Letter
from our CEO

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We didn't skip a beat. Started 2024 the way we ended 2023: full throttle on our investment mandate to find and fund 30 of the country’s most ignited founders.

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Q4 2023 saw us pull the trigger on 5 iconic investments and we’re on track to exceed that in 1H 2024 (more on this later, including our 3 key investment criteria and how we’ve expanded our venture capital focus to include steady ships, besides the usual rocket ships).

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In January we broke all records with our biggest Ignite ever. Partnering with Ateneo’s DOST-backed Blue Nest Technology Business Incubator and the Ateneo Intellectual Property Office, we gathered some of Manila’s most badass founders, investors, and CEOs, along with our most promising young professionals and student leaders. For 5+ hours on a chill January afternoon, we ignited on the common ground of Peak Performance and Peak Living in 2024.

More Than VC

Our January highlight was the launch of 5VC FITNESS, a hybrid app, online and face-to-face platform for individuals, teams, and organizations to methodically and measurably grow their 5 Cycles of Virtuous Capital in 3-month sprints.

Check out 5vc.io:

See how 5VC can power you and your teams to unrivaled growth and performance;

See how you can partner with Ignite to bring 5VC to schools, corporations, SMEs and LGUs all over the country. This is one of our major KPIs in 2024-- to build partnerships (think franchising!) that bring 5VC FITNESS to every corner of Filipino society.

Fund 30 of PH’s Most Ignited

January was also our public unveiling of IGNITE VC 2024: our quest to find and fund 30 of the country’s most Ignited founders, targeting to be the first money in and invest PHP5-10MM per founder in the next 18-24 months.

Here are the 3 most important finds we’re looking to invest in:

1) Founders who are obsessed with solving important problems at scale (where revenue and customers grow much faster and bigger than costs).

2) Founders who are obsessed with customer impact (where everything they do is built around continuously solving customer pains).

3) Founders who are obsessed with being great at execution and culture (because this is how they’re going to keep great people happy and full).

If you’re our kind of founder, we will invest in either of 2 scenarios:

1) Your venture was birthed as a rocket ship (to achieve massive scale within 3-5 years).

2) You’re currently a steady ship that can be transformed into a rocket ship. A steady ship is a solid business that is currently profitable (or can be within the next 6-12 months) and has a great product that delights customers in ways that are important to them.

Rocket ship or steady ship, we invest when we see that our Ignite capital, including our 5VC (5 Cycles of Virtuous Capital) can drive 10-100X++ growth in your venture.

Want to explore an investment from Ignite? Pls message us here and tell us what you have in mind. We’ll pick it up from there.

That’s all for now. Let’s keep igniting.

Andre A. Yap
February 2024

Joana Alberto is a CoFounder and Managing Partner of Ignite House of Innovations and Ni2, the National Innovators Initiative to power 100,000 Filipino innovators by 2023. She’s also the Managing Director of the Guild by Ni2, a dedicated team that focuses on career and OJT acceleration of college students and fresh grads at scale. The space that she holds is all about nurturing individuals to drive peak performance by discovering Ignite GPS (Genius, Purpose, Service) our personal navigation system that leads us to fulfill our highest potential, under Ignite Centre for Peak Experiences.

Before joining Ignite, Joana served the aviation industry for almost three decades while thriving in the field of entrepreneurship — from designing and manufacturing her own line of arts and crafts to selling dry goods, managing a flower shop and being an events designer, and never leaving out her social responsibility via community service. She was never content with just being employed.

“I’ve had many twists and turns in a career that has brought me to hundreds of cities all over the world, first as a flight attendant and cabin manager, then in HQ. After 27 years in aviation, I clipped my wings, and packed the manuscript that I worked on for 4 years entitled, #Metamorphosis: The Ultimate Makeover Manual for 40-Year Olds and Beyond, along with my certifications on wellness coaching and various healing modalities. In a matter of months, I went from wearing two hats in the airline, managing inflight performance while designing and delivering leadership programs to 120 nationalities, to leaving all that and holing up in India for a month – to learn yoga, find myself, reinvent my future.”

I was 47 then, a wife and mother who had spent the best years of my life flying in and out of my family’s life. I had been an expat for so long. I was finally coming home to Manila with a new career in corporate wellness. I thought that was it, my final chapter, time to get settled before entering my golden era.

 

But no.

 

A wise friend once asked me… Joana, you’ve been in a perfect storm! You’re an extreme empath and you’ve met, served and managed so many more people from so many more countries in 27 years than most people do in 3 lifetimes: those dreams and pains and wants of so many people must have a way of sticking on you, haunting you, no?

 

Yes, exactly; they’ve haunted me.“

Before I jumped into corporate, I designed a program for Filipina overseas workers – for people and pain I know so well. I designed a 6-month journey that would help them create their Dream Life Masterplan. I included all the right things I did and didn’t do, all the research and study, trial and error, consulting friends and experts, and sleepless nights in search for my truth. So OFWs long separated from their families can speed up their coming home — prepared. Well, my Dream Life Masterplan never reached a single soul. My intention was pure and noble. But I was alone for a huge mission.

Fast forward to 2017. A friend invited me to an Ignite gathering and I was never the same again. I found my space, found my missing pieces, found my partners and team. And I found the Ignite GPS: Genius, Purpose, Service. It was my finally embracing my own GPS that really put me on a new journey and challenge: to take care of people beyond wellness, so they can be whole – so they can live their deepest truth and so fulfill their highest potential and greatest promise. That’s what I found in the Ignite GPS.

Today, Joana is leading a team of Gen Z’s to launch a human + app coached program to help colleges students find clarity in their life-career direction. She also just launched the pilot project of her startup  —which partners with farm owners to create viable and sustainable ventures that support agri-eco tourism, farm based co-creation opportunities, tech guided wellness experiences and socio-economic development initiatives. At the rate she’s going, nothing can stop her from founding more winning innovations in the next coming years. A genuine Iska — a graduate of the University of the Philippines, her mission no doubt is to make an impact on the lives of her kabayans, dreaming to make her country a better place.

Andre Yap is the founder and CEO of Ignite House of Innovation, which invests and operates in venture capital, technology, media, education, healthcare, energy, hospitality, food, agri, HR and enterprise solutions. 

Andre also serves as Executive Chairman of Ni2, The Philippines’ National Innovators Initiative to power 100,000 Filipino Innovators across key sectors of society. Ni2 is a public-private partnership with national and local governments, business and non-profit organizations, and the academe.

As a serial founder and startup investor, Andre built Ignite House to be an innovator for innovators – to R&D, build, operate and continuously invest in proprietary systems, platforms, programs and technologies in order to nurture, scale and sustain innovation capabilities, open collaborations and disruptive opportunities uniting key sectors of society (business, education, socio-civic, government, startups, investors), with the vision of establishing the Filipino as a uniquely disruptive force in global innovation.

Ignite’s mission is deeply personal to Andre: to build and invest in transcendent ventures by building up and investing in transcendent founders and teams, advancing his core belief that innovation is the business (i.e., building sustainable operating models) of solving society’s wicked problems. In 2018 Andre authored the Ignite Manifesto and has relentlessly pushed its growth as an Operating System that has helped thousands of individuals and teams channel deeply personal GPS (Genius, Purpose, Service) into shared Mission and Collaboration, into Innovation and Impact.

Andre was born and raised in Manila and educated by the Jesuits and the Opus Dei, before moving onto the US, where he earned 3 degrees (Yale, Fordham, NYU) and lived for 15 years. In 2009, based on his pioneering work with CUBED (“Cube Ed”), the Center for University-Based Enterprise & Development, which Andre founded as an innovation accelerator and ecosystem in the state of Connecticut, the US Government granted Andre the status of Permanent Resident on the Basis of Exceptional Ability in the National Interest of the United States of America. 

Nevertheless, Andre’s heart remains fully in the Philippines, where he wants to do his best work and most meaningful impact. He has called Manila home again since 2011, when he moved back with his wife and their 2 dazzling boys. 

 

“I’ve pursued my career as a series of ventures and adventures… it’s a path that doesn’t look or feel like any other, that rarely ever really feels like work… precisely by challenging established norms, relentlessly going out of my box and into many other boxes, appreciating how seemingly disparate realities tie together, threading constellations where others barely even see the dots.”

 

From choosing Yale for its public-private management focus and then following it up with a second Masters in Interactive Marketing at NYU; to deciding against the post-MBA rush into investment banking or management consulting so that I can start the YGroupe and really understand the leverage in my New York, New Haven, Manila connections; to starting CUBED despite my perfectly zero knowledge of tech, incubators or the academe; to choosing to come home to Manila despite CUBED’s success and the US government’s offer of Permanent Residence; to the long and winding road of ventures, investments and partnerships that have now led to the National Innovators Initiative and cross-sector collaborations, not just across industries, but tying together national and local governments and hundreds of schools and MSMEs. I’ve really enjoyed the thrill of going into frontier space that I know nothing about, that no one knows anything about, and making sense and structure out of all that chaos and ambiguity – building value, outcomes, impact where nothing but deep need existed.

 

“Innovation: that’s what many people call it. For me, I see myself as an artist no less than Da Vinci or Picasso – business is my canvas and if I’m honest and brave there is no other way to paint but my way. Above all, I see innovation as my humbling participation in God’s ongoing work of creation – to help make things new and better all the time and to share that fire and capacity for renewal with everyone I meet. As we say, to ignite all we touch to live their deepest truth and so fulfill their highest potential and greatest promise— for joy, meaning, success, and impact; a life fully-lived.”

Your people don’t have to suffer.
Gift them the future they deserve.